
Our Mission
find the saint, genius, hero within
Our Mission
In alliance with the family, St. Mary promotes the flourishing of students in a story of friendship with Christ through the virtues.
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Root beliefs
The Disciples of the Hearts of Jesus and Mary have designed the educational plan “Stella Maris.” This vision is founded on the Disciple’s spirituality and theology inspired by St. Ignatius of Loyola and St. John Paul II. Our vision for education consists of five root beliefs:
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Each student is unique and unrepeatable with his or her own talents and vocation. Flourishing integrates all dimensions of the person and its goal is a full life where the hero, the genius, and the saint that each student carries within comes out.
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Communion among persons educates the student in an indirect way through their main relationships. Parents are the primary educators and teachers and priests are witnesses to a greater truth than themselves.
The educational alliance seeks to educate the child in his constitutive relationships (as a son, brother, spouse and father), bringing to fullness his vocation to love.
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Through age-appropriate pedagogical practices, the student learns to desire what is good and great and to put it into practice. The virtues needed for that are acquired progressively through itineraries that include rites of passage and promises. The path of growth includes intellectual and moral virtues that integrate academic excellence and character formation.
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Through stories the child learns the unity of life (narrative intelligence) and receives an ideal of a good life and models of excellent life that inspire his moral imagination and integrate his affections. Narrative pedagogy also encourages the pupil to become the protagonist in the development of his own story.
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Mathematics, natural sciences, languages... find their interpretative key in the question about the human person, which is fully revealed in theology. In the subjects of human and natural sciences, the student must recognize a unity, a dynamic order, a beauty: these are aspects of the great harmony of creation and of the history of love that God wanted to weave with man.
In friendship with Christ, a new way of seeing reality is generated (sacramental vision) and the vocation to love matures.