Reframing Retirement for Mission will be transitioned to an online program during June 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This virtual program will include morning presentations from our renowned speakers and optional online discussions with others in this stage of life transition.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Brother Rice Chicago Eleventh graders Conor Durkin, Patrick Ward, and Cole Scarnavack went to the Will County Illinois Veterans Assistance Commission (VAC) to present a check to the VAC Board. The money was collected in a dress down day in November; and Brother Rice students raised over $930.
Students at Monsignor Farrell’s WFBN-TV station were having another spectacular year with amazing opportunities and incredible guests, until March 13, that is, when they were forced to broadcast their last live production amid news of the coronavirus, as sheltering in place and rigid school restrictions became a way of life.
Edmund gradually attuned to the still small voice in his heart: Give to the poor in handfuls... The will of God be done in this and everything we undertake... But let us do ever so little for God, we will be sure he will never forget it, nor let it pass unrewarded... Every good act is charity.
Members of the Mech Warriors, the co-op robotics team of Bloomfiled Hills’ Brother Rice and Marian high schools, have been assembling face masks and face shields and donating the personal protection equipment to Beaumont Health System, one of many examples of Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Detroit stepping up to serve the community.
Since 1975, the Bishop Hendricken community has come together for our annual “Hunger Walk” on Holy Thursday. Each year, our students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends, nearly 1000 strong, embark on a 10K walk from St. Kevin Church, through the neighborhoods of Warwick and back to Bishop Hendricken in support of the poor and marginalized in our society.
