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Back to School: Welcome to our ASH Parents!
It is with a real sense of joy that I welcome you all back to school for the 2015-2016 school year! I hope that you have all found some time in the months of summer to enjoy some special time together with your daughters and to nurture your spirit through leisure and relaxation. While we have only been back for a total of 6 days, it seems to me that the girls have returned with a little extra kick in their step, glad to be back, and looking forward to a great new year at Sacred Heart. After several days [...]
A Morning Prayer: Faculty and Staff In-Service at the Academy of the Sacred Heart, The Rosary
At the end of the summer and in anticipation of the school year, all of our Faculty and Staff at The Rosary join together for a three day in-service. During these days, we pray together to deepen our relationship with God and with one another. I offer this morning prayer to you as an invitation to join us in prayer for the community at Sacred Heart in New Orleans. May we all be blessed in the year ahead! Morning Prayer-Faculty In-Service 8-10-15 “To hope is to believe in the future. Hope is always founded on strength of conviction, which makes changes and [...]
A Prayer for the Beginning of the School Year with Faculty and Staff
We need a means to encourage the soul, to nourish it and raise it over itself. The means of all means is the Spirit who vivifies and makes it fruitful…This Spirit becomes the breath of the soul…would to God each one may exclaim, “I begin today!” Conference Amiens, 1841 Leader: Loving and Compassionate God, we gather together this morning with our hearts and minds turned toward preparations for the coming school year. We come with hearts full of anticipation and excitement, expectation and hope for a good year. Be with us as we listen and learn from the wisdom of [...]
Climate SmART: Honoring Our Children’s Future Through Faith, Art, and Action
On April 10, 2015 the Associated Alumnae and Alumni of the Sacred Heart hosted its Annual Conference in Boston, MA. A panel of artists and RSCJ educators explored the topic of climate change to discuss "Climate SmART: Honoring Our Children’s Future Through Faith, Art, and Action.” The 5 member panel was sponsored by Honoring the Future (www.honoringthefuture.org). It was moderated by Frances Dubrowski, Project Director, Honoring the Future and Alumna, Newton College of the Sacred Heart. Members of the panel included: • Peter Handler, award-winning craft artist and creator of “The Canaries in the Coal Mine” sculptural works about the [...]
A network of friendships
Yesterday, the Class of 2015 was inducted into the Association of Alumna and Alumni of Sacred Heart (AASH) in a formal ceremony at the Rosary. These are my opening comments and reflections on this beautiful event. Welcome to the Senior Class of 2014-2015, parents, alumna of the Sacred Heart, Religious of the Sacred Heart from the New Orleans area, and to friends of our students and school! Together today, we celebrate a special event in the life of a Sacred Heart student; that is, their formal induction into the Alumnae Association of the Sacred Heart. This association is more than [...]
