Category Archives: Spiritual Formation

Girls for Christ and Challenge End their Great Year!

While the Girls for Christ girls ended their year with and ice cream social, the middle school challenge teams went to the Cherry Hill Lanes North Bowling Alley for a trip filled with faith, food, and fun.  Whether it was racking up their score or eating pizza with friends, a good time was had by...

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Vocations Awareness Week at Everest

This week is a special week where we celebrate the different types of vocations: married, single, and religious. The students are having many fun activities such as: fun games at recess, speakers who tell how they found thier vocation, and other suprises! The students also decorated the lunchroom for this special week, including interviews posted daily of faculty and teachers. There...

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“Let the Children come to Me” – A Reflection By Celine Kelly, Everest’s Girls Formation Director

You can hear the patter of dozens of little feet scurrying to the Girls’ School Chapel, at 8:05am, as soon as the invitation is heard over the intercom to come visit Jesus, our Best Friend. This visit is not routine but involves a free choice for each child, in Pre-School through 8th Grade, to offer...

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Everest’s Living Stations of the Cross

Our 8th Grade Boys and 7th Grade Girls put on a very powerful adaptation of the Living Stations of the Cross. With the help of Fr. Rivas, the students enacted the Stations for the Everest students and later that night, for the Everest families. Everyone was very grateful for the hard work they put into...

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Everest’s 2nd Graders sing “Spiritual Communion”

Everest’s Directress of Formation, Celine Kelly, wrote a special song for our 2nd grade class during their year of First Communion. “The Eucharist is the treasure of the Church and this is why we give special importance to our First Communion class each year. The children long to receive Jesus and often say that they...

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Everest Girls Know Their Faith!

Our Everest 4-6th grade girls participated in the St. Joe’s Quiz Bowl, a Catholic catechism contest. Everest brought four teams and they competed against other students from the area. Congrats to our sixth grade girls who came in second place. Everyone did a great job and knew a lot about their faith!

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Everest Boys Put Prayer First

“God dwells in our midst, in the Blessed Sacrament of the altar.” – St. Maximilian Kolbe

Today the Boys School is having adoration for vocations. Each student will spend a portion of their day in front of the Blessed Sacrament praying for vocations to the priesthood and consecrated life.
We can all join them spiritually by saying...

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