Christian Brothers High School • Enter to Learn, Leave to Serve
A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT
Our 140th year begins strong, with a beautiful new chapel
AUGUST 2015 FALL SEMESTER Christian Brothers High School Monthly Newsletter
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individual reflection. We are blessed to have a priest on staff, Fr. Francis Murin, who celebrates Mass in the chapel twice a week before school. Students and parents are always welcome. The chapel will bear the name,‘Chapel of St. Joseph,’ in honor of the patron saint of the De La Salle Christian Brothers. A statue of St. Joseph will be on the main lawn near the chapel entrance. Beautiful niches inside the chapel will feature small statues of St. John Baptist de La Salle and Our Lady of Guadalupe. The new altar will contain a reliquary containing sacred relics. The $850,000 chapel renovation project was made possible thanks to the generosity of donors to the Building on the Tradition Campaign – Phase II (2007-2014) and donors at the 2015 auction. No tuition dollars were used for this project. And, I am grateful to say that CB remains debt free. Our mission – as it has been for 140 years --is to provide an outstanding Lasallian Catholic, college preparatory education in a faith-filled community. Our teachers and staff are energized. The second engineering lab is complete. Soon, our beautiful new chapel will provide our students with inspirational space for community worship and personal reflection. Thank you for entrusting us with your sons and daughters and for partnering with us in this shared sacred mission.
God bless,
Lorcan P. Barnes President (916) 733-3603 lbarnes@cbhs-sacramento.org
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Welcome back, and a special welcome to new CB families. We are honored to partner with you in the sacred responsibility of nurturing adolescents to become adults who are spiritually rich, morally courageous, and intellectually distinguished. Our excellent faculty and staff are eager to greet your daughters and sons. We anticipate our starting enrollment will be at, or close to, an all-time high. We have planned staffing carefully in order to safeguard our close-knit community. Class sizes will still average 25 students. Once again, our student body will be enriched by the presence of international students … 32 students from eight countries this year to date. In addition to preparing for a great year on human and programmatic levels, we are making a few improvements to the campus. Our students return to a beautiful new second engineering lab to accommodate this growing program. We created wider parking spaces in the back school lot to make life a bit easier for our newer drivers. But the most exciting improvement is the Chapel of St. Joseph, which will open in September. As a proud Lasallian Catholic community, we celebrate the Holy Presence of God in our students, our community and in our world. But until now, our school has not had a central gathering space for prayer and worship that properly reflects the central role of faith formation. The old chapel, built in 1956, served as a worship space for the community of Brothers. As such, it was simply too small to meet the needs of students. Further, the entrance was oriented toward the former Brothers’ residence in Br. Bertram Hall, providing no direct point of access for students. The current renovation project expands the chapel to seat between 75 and 100. It is a larger space, but still intimate. The entrance opens to the main lawn while the front-facing exterior offers a significant symbol of our Catholic identity. The chapel’s larger, light-filled interior will accommodate Mass, Lenten reconciliation, retreats, community prayer experiences, and
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