Faith

Our faith is the impetus that drives everything we do here at St. Bernard. Children are taught and nurtured to seek God in all things and in all aspects of their lives. Our mission is that of our Church "To bring souls to Christ". It is the love of Christ through our Church and our Educational institution that we are moved to help children be all that God is inviting them to be. It is in this  meeting with Christ that we become "fully alive" and are able to live happy, at peace and full of hope. This makes all the difference in our school, this world, and our children. With their growing faith, they will bring a brighter future to our world. 


The School-wide Learning Expectations (SLEs) define the spiritual, academic, social and emotional characteristics that a student of St. Bernard School will work toward, attain, and develop throughout his/her years of attendance.

School-wide Learning Expectations
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Faith
St. Bernard students, nourished by their personal relationship with Christ and empowered by the Catholic church’s impact on society, become active Catholics who live and evangelize through their faith. 

Academics
St. Bernard students are self-driven, critical thinkers who embrace being lifelong learners and who grow by fueling their intellectual potential.

Discipline
St. Bernard students lead by example by demonstrating integrity, responsibility, accountability, and self-discipline, knowing their essential role in community and country.

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The life of man – to know and love God

1 God, infinitely perfect and blessed in himself, in a plan of sheer goodness freely created man to make him share in his own blessed life. For this reason, at every time and in every place, God draws close to man. He calls man to seek him, to know him, to love him with all his strength. He calls together all men, scattered and divided by sin, into the unity of his family, the Church. To accomplish this, when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son as Redeemer and Saviour. In his Son and through him, he invites men to become, in the Holy Spirit, his adopted children and thus heirs of his blessed life.
So that this call should resound throughout the world, Christ sent forth the apostles he had chosen, commissioning them to proclaim the gospel: “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age.” Strengthened by this mission, the apostles “went forth and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by the signs that attended it.”
Those who with God’s help have welcomed Christ’s call and freely responded to it are urged on by love of Christ to proclaim the Good News everywhere in the world. This treasure, received from the apostles, has been faithfully guarded by their successors. All Christ’s faithful are called to hand it on from generation to generation, by professing the faith, by living it in fraternal sharing, and by celebrating it in liturgy and prayer. 

St. Bernard strives to keep the above precepts alive in each of our student...

Link: Catechism of the Catholic Church –Online Catechism



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