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Preserving Catholic Education
As stewards for Catholic education we must move forward as those before us, to assure future generations that Lourdes High School will be a vibrant Catholic school in the greater Rochester community and meet the educational challenges of the 21st century.
Being faithful to the traditions of our Catholic heritage, the Rochester Catholic Schools will continue to educate young people in partnership with family, church, and community to deepen, proclaim and spread the Good News of Jesus Christ.
In order to build on our tradition, it is important that we provide the appropriate facilities to meet the needs of our current and future students. Therefore, after the completion of a three-year “Building Our Future” study, and a financial feasibility study to determine whether to remain at our present site or build a new high school at a different location, the trustees of Rochester Catholic Schools have unanimously decided to pursue the building of a new school.
Rochester Catholic Schools will build a new Lourdes High School facility and campus for 625 students on 23.5 acres of land located at 19th Street and Valleyhigh Drive NW. The land was a generous gift to Rochester Catholic Schools. The property is adjacent to the Rochester Athletic Club, and the 100-acre prairie restoration project, Cascade Meadow Wetlands.
The new Lourdes facility and campus will support beauty, art and music consistent with our Catholic tradition, heritage and community. We are asking prayerfully for your support.
RCS Mission
Rochester Catholic Schools assist families in the faith formation of their children by providing a quality, Catholic educational experience to continue the mission of the Catholic Church to proclaim the Good News of Jesus Christ.
Lourdes Latest News
| Lourdes Building Our Future Campaign Continues to Build Momentum |
Lourdes Building Our Future Campaign Continues to Build Momentum
Those three words, “Building Our Future,” are individually powerful. But combined together, they give us the momentum to aspire to great ideas, to transcend the present and seize the future, and to collectively embark on a journey that will continue to preserve a legacy of catholic school education in Rochester.
2009 was an important year spent building the foundation of the capital campaign. We’ve spent time engaging our current families and alumni helping all to image the bright future for catholic school education. We have received a wealth of donations during this initial phase and have had many positive conversations with current families, alumni, faculty, students and staff about the vision for the new Lourdes High School. In the final months of 2009- we opened the Lourdes Building Our Future campaign to a wider audience, with the help of Bishop Quinn began to engage our local parishes.
We are optimistic we can achieve our campaign goal and remain on track with opening the doors to the new high school in 2012. To date we have raised more than $11.5 million dollars, have created the architectural schematics and are now pleased to announce we are moving into the creation of construction blueprints. This important step will allow us to attain accurate measurements for the building and begin the critical RFP process that will enable us to begin construction next fall.
“If you have currently made your pledge to the Lourdes Building Our Future campaign, we are so greatful and want you to know that your dollars have enabled us to get to where we are to date,” said Dennis Nigon, President, Rochester Catholic Schools. “Now is the time that we need others to come forward and help us move to the project to completion. We need all current families, alumni and the wider Catholic community to help us. We are closing in on the $15 million dollar mark which is an important threshold that will move things along quickly with the goal of opening the doors in 2012,” said Nigon. In addition to raising the current funds, an anonymous donor has come forward, pledging an additional $2 million dollars once the $15 million dollar threshold has been reached.
The campaign will continue to reach out and spread the message in traditional and non traditional ways. A powerpoint presentation has been produced and is available for group gatherings and viewing. Please contact Dennis Nigon if you are interested in having someone come speak to your group. The Lourdes Building Our Future campaign has also bridged into the social networking world and has created a Fan page. If you are a facebook user, please consider adding yourself to the LBOF fan page.
The time is now to give to the Lourdes Building Our Future campaign. Please give now.
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Learning Environment Philosophy Statement
At Lourdes High School, our sense of community is particular to our spiritual tradition.
We are not simply citizens, peers, or colleagues engaged together in the
business of education.
Rather, we are dignified among one another by the presence of God,
in whose image we are created to community.
Our tradition is rich with the signs of God’s presence in symbol and ritual, and our lives are inspired through the Holy Spirit. As educators, we encourage the recognition of the presence of God within each of us. Our physical environment, then, needs to express unequivocally who we claim to be.
The future Lourdes High School should be designed from inspiration. In both architecture and décor, the physical space should represent itself as sacred space to reflect the spiritual motivation of our work: representing the Glory of God in all we do.
The Student's Grace
Jesus, Teacher, and Friend,
As we build our new school,
give courage, faith, and peace
to the Lourdes community
so we may learn and grow together as One.
Keep alive in us the grace of courage
so we may be led by wisdom
in making the right choices.
Keep alive in us the grace of faith
so we may be humble in our relationships and
continually learn to see one another
as You see us.
Keep alive in us the grace of peace
so we may always be a community
marked by compassion for All.
Above all, no matter where
we find ourselves in life,
continue to give us Charity
so we may ever be Charity for others.
Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.
Lourdes Future Brochure
Please click the brochure to view and download the new, updated Lourdes Building Our Future Campain Brochure.