Spiritual Life

A VIBRANT SPIRITUAL LIFE AIDS STUDENTS IN PURSUIT OF HOLINESS

Notre Dame Preparatory is a Diocesan Catholic High School, dedicated to the promotion of academic excellence and the pursuit of holiness through the shared values of Reverence, Respect and Responsibility, out of love for Jesus Christ.

In order to live by our mission statement, we provided a learning environment that incorporated the following exercises to enhance the spiritual growth of our students during the 2018-19 school year: Daily Prayer Daily Mass Monthly All-School Mass Sacrament of Reconciliation

First Friday Adoration of The Blessed Sacrament House Reflection Time

Faith Formation Groups Increased Accessibility to Kairos Retreats Faculty Retreats and Masses Wednesday Parent Rosary Group Eucharistic Procession

Angst the Movie Presentation All-School House Retreat

In September of 2018, we organized an amazing All-School House Retreat. It was the first time we took the entire student body, faculty and staff to downtown Phoenix for Mass at the Basilica and a retreat at the Convention

Center. There were many dynamic speakers, question and answer sessions and time spent within the Houses. It was no small feat, but it was very spiritually rewarding.

We continued the tradition of holding a school-wide Eucharistic Procession, followed by Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament to give students the opportunity to follow Jesus in the Eucharist and experience the peace of a true encounter with Him.

One of the most powerful spiritual opportunities offered at NDP were the retreats. They deepened students’ understanding of our loving God and brought students closer to each other in a bond of trust and faith that will adhere them in friendship for many years.

We embrace our Catholic faith and identity and continually encourage each student to become the best version of his/herself so that everyone on our campus will reflect the grace, mercy, love and unity of Jesus Christ. In fact, the theme for the 2019-20 school year is Unity.

“One of the most fundamental problems in the spiritual order is that we sense within ourselves the hunger for God, but we attempt to satisfy it with some created good that is less than God.”

BISHOP ROBERT BARON