Charlotte Cho, a Grade 11 student from St. Thomas More Collegiate, in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, participated in the inaugural 2019 Edmund Rice Christian Brothers Gallery of Student Art Subsequently she was invited to share her talents with the whole school community. She chose to feature two brothers, each retired octogenarians, dynamically present in the life of the school.
On Friday, January 24, students and staff members from various ERCBNA schools participated in the March for Life in Washington D.C. Students and staff from Bishop Hendricken, Brother Rice Michigan, Catholic Memorial and Iona Prep participated in this year’s march, and had the opportunity to spend time with their peers from fellow Edmund Rice schools.
Our Crusader students have recently been focused on advocating for a healthier Earth. Tampa Catholic partnered with 4Ocean and GotSneakers during the month of January to assist with this mission. 4Oceans hosted a beach clean up in St. Petersburg where our students helped to collect 15,607 cigarette butts, 1251 bottle caps, 732 plastic straws and many other pieces of garbage contributing to the pollution crisis.
What does putting our action in action mean when the very people we are hoping to help are not even allowed across the border? A team of 12 students and three teachers from Vancouver College took that question with them as they travelled to Brownsville, Texas for a week in November. Upon the team’s arrival in Brownsville, they were greeted by Brother Tim, a Christian Brother whose hospitality and knowledge knows no bounds, and stayed at St. Mary’s Rosa Mistica House of Prayer.
Students from St. Laurence High School, Br. Rice High School as well as Marist High School and Mother MacAuley High School in Chicago all participated in a burial service for those marginalized in Chicago.
Among the tens of thousands of pro-life demonstrators in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 24 for the March for Life was a group of high school students from the Bronx. They had several banners, the longest of which stretched clear across Constitution Ave. as they marched down it.
As a part of “Movember” here at Catholic Memorial we celebrated a Campus Ministry Knight Day where we took a day off of classes to promote Men’s Health as a school. During the opening assembly, four faculty members presented talks which shared a personal experience of becoming or being a man of faith and character.
