We are not a Private School; We are a Catholic School.
We are Not a Private School; we are a Catholic School! What does it mean to be “Catholic”? Ultimately, our vocation as Catholic school teachers is to play a role in the salvation of souls (Can. 1752). If we are not working to that end, then we are not providing for our students what we are called to do. Immaculate Heart of Marcy Catholic Church and School in Atlanta, GA...where I grew up. (Photo: P. Smith) The Church is the “family of the Lord”, so we say. The immediate family, the domestic Church, then, is the womb in which the children of God are cared for and protected in the safest environment possible. So what of the Catholic School? If the domestic Church is the womb of the Church, then the Catholic School is the nursery. And what are we nursing? To what end? God certainly wants everyone to be saved (1 Timothy 2:4-6). But Salvation is not simply “getting into Heaven”. The contrary to salvation is damnation…slavery to sin and fixation on ego and material Truth.