This November, the Vancouver College Action Team -- Sean Ryan, Marcus Saldanha, Sean Cuevas, and Mrs. Lilian Vernier -- was proud to run our first ever Fear the Beard campaign. For a minimum donation of $5, students received a bead bracelet on to which they could add the initials of a person they were taking part in the initiative for. The proceeds went to the Kristian Domingo Foundation, a charity created by the family of a Vancouver College alumnus who passed away from cancer. Not only was this about cancer awareness but also about furthering a sense of solidarity among the staff and students of our school through a sense of shared struggle and loss. The team picked up on the idea at the Christian Brother's 2018 Action Conference that they attended earlier in the year. We look forward to concluding our initiative at the end of November, and are excited to use this initiative as a launch for our new school leadership and service club, Seeding Hope."
Other News from ERCBNA
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Bergen Catholic Honors Edmund Rice Christian Brothers on Religious Brothers Day
Bergen Catholic honored members of the Edmund Rice Christian Brothers Congregation as a part of Religious Brothers Day on May 1st. In attendance to renew their vows during a school-wide liturgy were Bergen Catholic Campus Minister Brother McDonough, former Bergen Catholic President Brother Sullo, as well as Bergen Catholic Trustee Brother Segvich.
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I edmund
In the winter of Edmund’s seventy-fith year his body signaled, with a variety of aches, pains, and touches of restricted mobility, it was time to recalculate his engagements. In January of 1838 he wrote his Brothers announcing a General Chapter and forecasting his impending resignation. The following month he updated his Last Will and Testament noting that while weak of body he had full powers of mind and thought.
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In Memory of Me
Paintings of Christian Brother artist Kenneth Chapman, CFC, have been selected for the Eucharistic Congress Art Exhibition, In Memory of Me. The works, from different moments of a lifelong engagement in contemplative thought and artistic expression, offer Eucharist images present in recent writings of Pope Francis and influenced by insights from the Jesuit paleontologist and mystic, Teilhard De Chardin, S.J.
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EASTER BLESSINGS: He is Risen Alleluia!!!
In Brother Valdes’ painting of The Resurrection we see Christ rising from the tomb.