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A Note From Our Principal 

Dear Families,

As we begin our new school year, I'd like to share with you the unabridged version of our mission statement. In its fully articulated form, the Queen of Peace mission is not just an idle claim about what we endeavor to do. It is also a vision of how these targeted energies are intended to work upon us all and transform our lives into true testaments of God's love.

Our core mission is to teach students to see Jesus in themselves and others. This gift of seeing is the gift of the Eucharist, which we call Communion because it breaks down the walls of the self and unites our holy spirits across every possible kind of division. 

Queen of Peace School is a community of faith organized around the Eucharist and everything it represents about our duty as human beings created for love and by love.

Queen of Peace is a Catholic School with a clear and confident Catholic identity. This identity is rooted in missionary discipleship, which is what we pursue when our vision is formed to see Christ inside of ourselves as the inspiration for how we use our freedom, and to see Christ inside of others as the source of their dignity and worth. 

Our Catholic identity is a pledge to the belief that we are made in God's image and likeness. To be made by God and for God confers a special responsibility that we cannot fulfill with a passive or lukewarm temperament. We must wake everyday to the challenge and the promise of the Catholic virtues. We must keep ourselves awake by nurturing a fully Catholic worldview. The alternative is to "fall asleep in Christ."

Joy. Delight. Wonder. Awe. Grace. Mercy. Virtue. Truth. Goodness. Beauty. Faith. Hope. Love. The Catholic formation at Queen of Peace is intended to taper the sensibilities of our students toward these sacred gifts, which in the end is what makes us all free "to choose the path that God as planned for us in this life and to respond with a generous 'yes.'"

Our Catholic identity is our living cornerstone. It is not for mere display or ceremony. It is what gives real and present life to everything we do. 

Our belief is that living as committed Catholics is a kind of living that shows we are "made for more." That we are "made for greatness." And that we cannot allow the world's definition of greatness to crowd out or cover over or completely replace the transcendent definition written by God into natural law.

To become great in the estimation of God is to live out the full purpose of our original design. It is when we are living in such a way that we rise to the level of our creation and reach our full capacity to love one another as He loves us. 

Sincerely,

Josh

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