A science fair, an art festival, and a field day are annual events. Periodically, students contribute to a literary magazine. Mt. St. Mary's in Emmitsburg, Md., points of interest in Washington and Northern Virginia and to the U.N. in New York. A popular activity is the Guardian Angels program in which junior high students are matched with kindergartners and first-graders with whom they sit during Mass and other assemblies and with whom they work together on other projects. Father Gerard Creedon, pastor at St. Charles Parish, or Father Francisco Mendez, associate pastor, celebrate Mass at the school once a week.
Students help plan the liturgy and participate in it.
Throughout the year students bring in food for the hungry at Thanksgiving, small gifts for hospital patients, provide entertainment at the local nursing homes and write home-bound parishioners monthly. Students start each morning in the cafeteria with a prayer guided by the principal. Inc. All rights reserved.