Students and faculty from both Vancouver College and St. Thomas More Collegiate spent three nights in East Harlem, NY on route to the Student Leadership ACTION Workshop in Kearney, NJ. This marked the first overnight and the first international group to experience the hospitality of our Mission Frère- Harlem initiative.
Below are photos from Brother Damian Ryan who is currently participating in the Our Way into the Future Orientation Program in Nairobi, Kenya. The photos were taken during a three-mile protest walk with 300 students from Christian Brother schools focused on “cleaning up our Earth.”
Students from schools across the Edmund Rice Christian Brother Schools network gathered September 19-22 at the Archdiocesan Youth Retreat Center in Kearney, NJ, for the annual Student Leadership ACTION Workshop sponsored by the Office of Educational Services.
The Immersion Groups Program started in 2006 as a collaborative way among the North American Province and the Latin American Region. Brother Stephen Casey (ERCBNA) and Brother Paul Keohane (LAR) lead the program.
There are a number of ways to look at Hope. Our Catholic theologians say that Hope is a divine gift that eventually leads us to union with our Creator. From my experience I would say that Hope is more like multiple layers of wrapping paper around a gift. If we live our lives intentionally, we discover aspects about the wondrous gift inside as we unwrap each layer, but we never quite finish unwrapping and get to the gift.
As a way to celebrate the 21st anniversary of Monsignor Farrell’s TV station WFBN, students at Farrell and at St. Joseph Hill Academy's TV studio and faculty were guests of three popular TV shows. For starters, station students ventured over to the “Greg Gutfeld Show,” the FOX News comedy and politics show modeled after traditional late-night talk shows.
