A CATHOLIC Jesuit High School: Miracle or Oxymoron?
The all-boys Jesuit High School (JHS) in Tampa, Florida, is Catholic although it is run by Jesuits (CatholicNewsAgency.com, September 20).
• JHS encourages students to share their faith with their peers.
• A total of 104 students have been baptised since 2010.
• For Father Richard Hermes, SJ, the president of JHS, “nothing” is more important than promoting the faith and leading the young men to God.
• Retreats are a big part of the school's ministry.
• A key factor in the campus’ “dynamic, orthodox, authentically Catholic culture” is the availability of the sacraments.
• There is daily Mass, regular Eucharistic adoration, confessions.
• The crown jewel of JHS is the multimillion-dollar Holy Cross Chapel, a Romanesque edifice dedicated in 2018.
• JHS values “beautiful, noble, dignified liturgies” making the Masses and other liturgies “as dignified and solemn as possible.”
• Groups of eight to 10 students meet regularly at lunchtime to discuss their faith.
• The school has a “…More
They are being taught the compromised Conciliar version of Catholicism - which ain't Catholic.
We don’t your kind of negativity. We should rejoice over those rays of sunshine Our Lord gives us in these dark times.
Charlie, you sound like a product of effeminate post-conciliarism. Since when is telling the truth "negative"? Since when is a school which embraces the errors of the past 60 years a "ray of sunshine"?