Focus On: Campus Ministry & Service

 

As we approach the summer, the Academy is proud to announce that thirty-four of its students qualified in the 2018-2019 school year for the Presidential Volunteer Service Award. Students had to complete a minimum of 50 service hours (for students under 15 years of age) or 100 hours (for those 15 years of age and older). The Mary Helpers awarded completed a combined 4,857 volunteer hours.

 

We are thrilled to recognize the service of:

Joceline Berrio: 110 hours, Gold

Kiera Bommer: 50 hours, Bronze

Maria Angelina Budelman: 61.5 hours, Bronze

Amanda Cammarota: 108 hours, Bronze

Janiele Campusano: 52 hours, Bronze

Kyra Cobisiero: 88.7 hours, Silver

Courtney Corbett: 129.5 hours, Bronze

Natalie DeCindio: 115.5 hours, Bronze

Nicole DeCindio: 166.5 hours, Bronze

Jesley Delgado: 257.3 hours, Gold

Britney DeSanto: 109 hours, Bronze

Daniela Escobar: 115 hours, Bronze

Michela Fahy: 257.3 hours, Gold

Skylar Fusco: 117 hours, Bronze

Simona Graceffo: 256 hours, Gold

Christina Greco: 54.8 hours, Bronze

Brianna Guzman: 233.5 hours, Silver

Dolores Hans: 210 hours, Silver

Vanessa Hiciano: 126.1 hours, Bronze

Alleyna Jean-Philippe: 183.5 hours, Silver

Hai-Yan Koenig: 58.2 hours, Bronze

Julie Mantari: 192.5 hours, Gold

Maria Mazariegos: 186.2 hours, Silver

Meghan McGovern: 140.5 hours, Gold

Faith Monesteri: 201 hours, Gold

Fiona Morrissey: 114 hours, Bronze

Rasneli Paulino: 240 hours, Gold

Ava Porter: 55.8 hours, Bronze

Chanchal Saratkar: 75 hours, Silver

Kayla Sullivan: 101 hours, Bronze

Elisabeth Szymanski: 126 hours, Bronze

Paris-Madison Tampol: 117.5 hours, Gold

Genai Veal: 371.2 hours, Gold

Maya Watters: 77 hours, Silver

 

 

 

Following in the footsteps of sophomores before them, this year's sophomore class beautifully led our annual May Crowning and Rosary. Since the chapel fire, the prayers and ceremony have relocated to outside of the Provincial House, which allows the elderly Sisters in residence to join us. Students were paired with the Sisters by the JOY club, and the sophomores wrote and led reflections for each decade of the rosary. The ceremony finished with Rasneli Paulino and Guadalupe Aguilar, assisted by Brianna D'Aleo.

 

During the Ascension Thursday Mass, twenty members of our campus spirituality club, the LIGHT Club, consecrated themselves to the Blessed Mother either for the first time or as a renewal of their annual consecration. Through this special prayer, they asked the Blessed Mother to guide and protect them in life as they strive to grow in holiness. Students were given a rosary bracelet as a sign of their consecration. The bracelets were personally made by Sister Brittany. After receiving their bracelets they were told, "Just as we hold our mother's hand when we are little children learning to walk, so too, as we are growing in the spiritual life do we hold on to Mary, our Mother. May this bracelet remind you of her closeness to you and be a constant invitation to hold her hand in life."