Name

Our name, Living Nazareth, comes from our desire to provide for students and families the same kind of formative setting as that enjoyed by the Holy Family at Nazareth and to adopt an outlook on education and formation that most closely resembles their own. It was largely inspired by a reading in the Office of Readings for the feast of the Holy Family which is available on our home page.

Motto

Our motto, Sicut in caelo et in terra ("On earth as it is in Heaven"), is taken from the Our Father, the only prayer Our Lord taught us with His own lips. It is a reminder to us all that our goal is to live here below in such a way as to imitate the saints and angels above.

Patron Saints

Our two patrons are Our Lady of the Anunciation and St. Joseph, patron of departing souls. We invoke the parents in the Holy Family under these titles as a special reminder to us of the beginning and end of human life and how every moment in between must be lived in pursuit first of the kingdom of God. Our Lady of the Anunciation is an icon of a young woman steadfast in prayer, with a vibrant interior life, seeking solitude and silence to hear the voice of God. As a result of her faithfulness, she receives the vocation to make Christ manifest to the world, having already conceived the Word in her immaculate heart. St. Joseph is an icon for us of the blessed life of each saint, striving always to live and die in the presence and love of Christ and His Blessed Mother.