Inspiring Students to Learn and Serve God
Edmonton Catholic Schools is committed to offering a Christ-centred learning experience for all learners. Our mission is to provide a Catholic education that inspires students to learn and that prepares them to live fully and to serve God in one another. Guided by our moral compass, students and staff will engage individually and collaboratively in serving the common good today while being good stewards for tomorrow.
Mission and Vision
Religious Education
The Catholic faith is grounded in the love and grace of God, experienced through Jesus Christ, and empowered by the Holy Spirit. The Catholic life of discipleship is our response to God’s love and grace. It is how we live out our understanding of who we are in our relationships to God, one another, and to our world. A disciple is a “learner”. Both teachers and students become disciples of Jesus Christ when they deepen their relationship with him. At every age, discipleship is a conscious decision on one’s behalf. It means asking over and over, “What is it that I believe? Why do I believe? How does this belief impact my life and the lives of others?”
Catholic Church teachings bring about a deeper understanding of discipleship and what it means to follow and imitate Jesus. Learning how to be a disciple in the modern world by being a servant to humanity, growing in self-knowledge, seeking union with Christ, showing concern for the poor, struggling to build peace, dialoging with people of other faiths or philosophical systems of thought, and believing in God's love.
Edmonton Catholic Schools offers four Religious Education courses: Religion Studies 15 - The Study of Culture; Religious Studies 25 - Christology and Scripture; Religious Studies 35 - Morality and Ethics; and Religions of the World 35. Students will take a minimum of nine credits in Religious Studies to graduate from an Edmonton Catholic High School.
Parish Information
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St. Thomas More Catholic Parish
Mother Margaret Mary is connected to St. Thomas More Parish.
Bicentenary of the Sisters, Faithful Companions of Jesus: 1820 - 2020
The Society of the Faithful Companions of Jesus, who served in Edmonton since 1888, celebrated a significant landmark in its life and history: 200 years since its foundation in
Amiens, France. For the FCJs, their Companions in Mission, friends, colleagues and associates, celebrations began on the Foundress’s birthday, September 21, 2019.
Historical background
Marie Madeleine de Bengy was born in the small town of Chȃteauroux, near Bourges in central France, in 1781 and was brought up in the social and religious turmoil that followed the French Revolution. She married Joseph de Bonnault d’Houët in 1804, but a year later, the marriage came to an untimely end when Joseph died of typhoid; their son Eugène was born three months after his father’s death. A young, sorrowing widow, Marie Madeleine was reluctant at first to believe that God was calling her to a radical life of prayer and service in the Church and world of her time. Gradually, with God’s help and the guidance of her Jesuit spiritual directors, she began to discern the path ahead more clearly. Finally, in 1820, at the age of 38, having attended to her son’s education and future, she opened a school in Amiens, thus marking the foundation of the Society of the Faithful Companions of Jesus. ‘My name is Magdalen’, she said. ‘I will follow my patron saint, who so loved Jesus as to accompany him in his journeys and his labours, ministering to him even at the foot of the Cross with the other holy women who did not abandon him but proved to be his faithful companions’. Before her death in 1858, Marie Madeleine founded schools and orphanages not only in France, but also in England, Switzerland, Italy and Ireland. Since then the Society of the Faithful Companions of Jesus has continued to spread, with Sisters and Companions in Mission (lay Associates) now in Australia, Belgium, England, Germany, Spain, Ireland, Italy, France, Switzerland, Romania, Canada, USA, Argentina, Indonesia, Philippines, Myanmar and South Sudan.
Chaplain's Message
Mother Margaret Mary is equipped with a beautiful Chapel and Prayer space for students to come and interact with our school Chaplain as well as reflect and be in the presence of the Holy Spirit. The Chapel is a place to engage in Spiritual Guidance as well as a safe and caring place where students can go to just casually talk or collaborate on just about anything.
Annual Chaplain Projects for Thanksgiving, Advent, Lent, and Easter are done by the Chaplain and student body at MMM where students learn the value of helping out charities and community organizations like the Edmonton Food Bank, The Mustard Seed, St. Vincent, DePaul, and Catholic Sign of Hope.
Students participate in monthly Masses in the Chapel led by our St. Thomas More priests and the students travel to the Parish throughout the year for Masses that celebrate events in the liturgical calendar.