The Church’s teaching mission includes inviting young people to a relationship with Jesus Christ or deepening an existing relationship with Jesus, inserting young people into the life of the Church, and assisting young people to see and understand the role of faith in one’s daily life and the larger society. “This unique Catholic identity makes our Catholic elementary and secondary schools ‘schools for the human person’ and allows them to fill a critical role in the future life of our Church, our country, and our world” (The Catholic School on the Threshold of the Third Millennium, 1997). The following standards address Catholic identity and culture as vital to the mission of Catholic schools in the United States.

We have a spiritual relationship between parish and school in the celebration of the sacraments: Baptism, First Holy Communion, and Confirmation. The Eucharist serves as the center of our faith. Faculty, students, and parents attend and actively participate in the liturgy with the parish community. Students are involved in all aspects of the mass; as lectors, and greeters, participate in offertory procession, altar servers, and choir. Our children’s choir has been a wonderful addition to the music ministry. When attending Mass the students gather as a school family (recognizing we are one Church united as children of God). St Gregory the Great School strongly encourages our families to attend Sunday Mass, especially on the first Sunday of the month which is our Family Mass. Students attend monthly family masses and weekly Friday masses wearing their school uniforms, which reflects the identity of our faith as practicing Catholics. Our faith community has strengthened while successfully linking the community, school, and parish.