Hundreds of students have arrived. The teachers have been getting ready for weeks. The altar is prepared for the first daily Mass of the academic year. And I'm one very happy priest. I've missed having the children here every day over the summer, and for the past several Sundays I've been hearing from them, "I'm ready for school to start!"This is our fifteenth year as a school, and as I've said fifteen times -- this is going to be a very good year!
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Father (or fellow readers of this blog),
Do you have any idea of how many other Catholic parochial (or Catholic religious-run) schools offer daily Mass for all their students every day? I have not come across ANY in my searches (except one international boys' school in SPAIN).
I know of some schools that have "daily" Mass, but the typical example is where high school students go Monday, junior high Tuesday, etc. So it's not "daily" for all students (and the usual justification is church building size constraints).
Anybody?
(And Father: are you running out of room in the church yet?)
Jason, suffice it to say that we're getting pretty darn full, both in the nave and in the loft!
Jason,
I have searched for another school that does daily attended mass and have yet to find one.
Sometimes space is a real obstacle (as is the case at many newer Catholic 'independent' schools ) and sometimes not (most Catholic elementary schools are connected to large parishes with more than enough space).
TAA is, from what I can tell, entirely unique in this respect.
I received a letter from an order called DOMINICAN SISTERS OF MARY, MOTHER OF THE EUCHARIST, who are located in Ann Arbor, Michigan.They are teaching nuns and they have their own schools called Spiritus Sanctus Academies. Their students attend Mass daily at the beginning of each day. They have Eucharistic Adoration on First Fridays and weekly Confessions are offered. They not only teach at their own schools but also at other schools in different states. This order was started by 4 Dominican Sisters twelve years ago and now there are 80 of them. their motto is Veritas and they believe it is their duty to receive God's truth from the Magisterium of His Church. This is a very young order most of their sisters are in their twenties.
They would like to be in all 50 states teaching in as many Catholic schools as possible.
their website is sistersofmary.org.
Lupita Nypaver
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