We have almost made it through our first week of school! Everyone, students and staff, is ready to rest up this weekend so we can come back again reenergized next week.

St. Joseph's is so very blessed that you have entrusted your children to our care. We are so grateful to have them. Our mission is to partner with you as parents, the primary educators of your children, to foster your child's relationship with Christ so they may one day join the great saints who have come before us. A well-rounded education that helps form them spiritually, academically, and emotionally is how we do that.

This quarter, we are focusing on "Growing in Gratitude". It is easy for us to take things for granted and give thanks for all the many gifts God has given to us. We are striving to grow in virtue so that we can be grateful in the good times and the bad. St. Bernadette Soubirous is a great example of practicing gratitude. Her family lived in extreme poverty, but she gave thanks to God saying, "For the poverty in which my mother and father lived, for the failure of the mill, all the hard times, for the awful sheep, for constant tiredness, thank you, my God!”

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In Christ,
-Mr. Allen