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Thank you all very much for your participation and reenrollment. We are very pleased to say that the majority of our families are returning. Knowing that you will be back next year has been of great encouragement and is a confirmation of our unity and resolve to provide the best possible for our children. Thank you! I would like to leave you with words from an audience of Pope Benedict XVI. "Because of our weakness it is difficult to be silent and sit before God. . . For this reason, during Lent, the Church invites us to be more faithful and intense in our prayer and to meditate at length on the word of God." It is hard at times to be in silence for five minutes anywhere. There are many demands and always something to attend to, as well as often noises all around us -- even if they are pleasant. Jesus in the Gospel calls us to go and pray in secret in our rooms so we can be in silence and hear what God has to say to us. As our Holy Father reminds us "Prayer is, in its depth, a relationship with God. A relationship does not imply talking at every second of contact. A relationship does imply sharing, listening, conversing."
Hopefully, in the remainder of this Lenten season, we can take extra moments to pray. No cell phone, no Blackberry, no iPod, no email, and no Facebook -- just time in silence with God, to hear what He is telling us. Count on our prayers for you and your families. We are in the middle of the grace-filled season of Lent. At Everest we urge our students to go beyond giving up candy to making a Lenten program of resolutions to do good to others and to overcome some habit that gets in the way of giving their best. Some of the resolutions have been impressive and show the depth and seriousness of our children’s faith. A few are as follows: help my mother daily with my brothers and sisters and not put me first; take time to pray to God each morning for my family and all those in need; do my very best to be a positive example to my classmates; offer a daily sacrifice for our priests. . . All these fine resolutions lead us to conversion by leaving behind an old way of living and beginning to act in a better way in order to embrace new life in Christ. Our children are leading the way in taking these steps to conversion.
The Pilgrim Queen
Pray together as a family and honor Mary as a special guest in your home.
Prayer for Everest
Dear Heavenly Father, Thank you for making Everest Academy a reality. With the aid of the Holy Spirit, may we touch the lives of many people and bring to our community the joy of knowing and loving Jesus Christ. We thank Our Mother Mary for her help and ask for her continued care and protection. Amen.
School Masses
Join us for All School Mass on Friday at 2:20pm or Morning Mass at 7:15 am Tues., Wed., and Thurs.
Lean on Me Holy Hour
Spend some time with Jesus every Thursday, after morning Mass 7:45am