Day 2: The Celebration Continues

With another day of celebrating Catholic schools week, the excitement continues. Today we participated in all school mass and experienced a powerful homily, given by Father Edward Voltz.

Father Voltz couldn’t have expressed a homily more inspirational to the students of St. Dominic than he did today. Within the homily he spoke of vocations, following God’s will, even when it’s scary or doesn’t seem right, and finding courage through prayer to live a life dedicated to our faith. But with all this deep information he kept the attention of the entire room by including some humor of his personal awkward experience with a girl. His homily, overall, hit the hearts of multiple students.

“I’ve always been thinking about vocation, but it’s very hard for me. I’ve always thought of marriage but now I’m searching also for religious life because i don’t just want to focused on one thing and it not be what God has planned for me,” sophomore Megan Sengl said.

“I thought his story with his ride with he girl he met was very funny. But I think when he was calling the community of St. Dominic to just take out the peer pressure, and that if we want to find any kind of happiness or joy like open your ears now to god so you can start to hear him more and more,” sophomore Joe Hogan said.

But Hogan had more to think about along with his thoughts on today’s homily. Freshmen Patrick Klassen, Noah Sachs and Kalea Reeves along with Sophomores Michael Thompson, Mollie Fogarty, Jack Wallis, Monica Turntime, Jacob Schwendemen, and Joe Hogan all won awards for the either the Knights of Columbus or Serra Club essay contests.

“Catholic education has surrounded me with values of my faith for ten years now, so obviously it’s been very impactful to me,” Hogan said, explaining how his Catholic education benefited his ability to win the Serra Club essay contest.

But Hogan wasn’t the only one who expressed how Catholic education has changed their life.

“It’s very important to me because it helps with relationships with friends because through God, it brings me closer to them,” Sengl said.

“I think Catholic education is extremely important and I believe that it is because we have a faith based education, which means that anything we are teaching has the guidance of faith and the guidance of God in it which is extremely important,” Mrs. Peters said.

Mrs. Peters, who is Director of Admissions, talked about how at st. Dominic we have such a unique, beautiful community that includes more than just the students and faculty inside the building.

“I absolutely love the community we have in this school. I’ve been to other schools that just don’t have the same feel that we have. Everybody is so nice to each other and welcoming to our new students and it’s really great to see the older students be real role models for the younger students,” Mrs. Peters said.

After our faith filled day of Catholic schools week, the entire student body and staff will continue throughout the rest of the week with a newfound appreciation for the opportunity we are all given by attending St. Dominic.