INFORMATION FOR ENROLLED OR INTERESTED STUDENTS

Our Mount Carmel School community consists of many people, and, as stated above, necessitates a diverse pool of talents and roles. However, our focus is the student, and “the most important element in the educational endeavor is ‘always the individual person: the person, and the moral dignity of that person.’”

We remember that the mission of the Church, and its every member, is to spread the “kingdom of Christ,” so we strive for an education that “leads its students to promote efficaciously the good of the earthly city and … for service in the spread of the Kingdom.” As mentioned before the spread of the Kingdom has a multiplicity of dimensions one of which even calls for students to fulfill the mission of the Church by being “a living witness to God’s love. “Children also have their own apostolic work to do. According to their ability they are true living witnesses of Christ among their companions.”

But a student doesn’t come to know this call automatically, so the school has a great obligation to “create within its walls a climate in which the pupil’s faith will gradually mature and enable him[/her] to assume the responsibility placed on him[/her] by Baptism.” In other words, the school must bring out the call in each individual student, and in a sense help them to see with clarity, not only the temporal world, but also the world of the Spirit. An MCS education must develop a strong intellect through academics, but to develop fully integrated persons who can see the world with clarity we also must develop the conscience so each student can hear the calling and guidance of the Spirit. We are a distinctive school in being Catholic, so our aim “is not merely the attainment of knowledge, but the acquisition of values and the discovery of truth.” We don't dictate solutions, but help students develop the necessary tools, intellectual and spiritual, so they "are responsible and inner-directed, capable of choosing freely in conformity with their conscience.”