Campus Ministry

For 90 Years St. Saviour High School has educated the young women of Brooklyn.  As a Catholic institution we seek to go beyond the academics and our educational mission has always been directed to the development of total person.  Campus ministry provides opportunities that support, challenge, and nourish, both the students and the faculty, in their on-going faith formation and spiritual development.

Our faith community, here at St. Saviour High School, participates in regularly scheduled liturgies, penance services and prayer experiences.  Father Murphy, pastor of St. Saviour Parish, is a welcome presence in our school and the presider at school liturgies.  Students, plan, conduct and assist the work of campus ministry as lectors, extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion (seniors only), altar services, leaders of prayers, campus ministry representatives and outreach coordinators. 

An important component of the spiritual life of the students is our retreat program.  In September freshmen begin their St. Saviour experience with in-house retreat.  During sophomore and junior year students have a one day retreat at nearby spiritual formation centers.  As seniours the girls have the option of a three day/two night retreat in upstate New York or a one day retreat at a local retreat house.  

Campus ministry hopes to create an atmosphere where students can come to know their God-given gifts and mature in their spiritual life.  They are challenged not just to learn their faith but to live it.  We expect that each student will then give of their time, treasure and talent in service to others. 

During October we collected construction paper, washable markers, glue sticks, cotton balls and Q-Tips for the Early Childhood Program from The Guild for Exceptional Children.  Over 300 pre-school children attend the various programs for children with special needs at the early childhood center in Boro Park. Brittany Delaney organized the collection and she and I brought three large boxes of supplies to them.