PHILOSOPHY

Saint Francis Academyseeks to provide the fullest and best opportunity for students to realize the threefold purpose of Christian education:

to teach doctrine
to build community
and to serve all people.

Students are instructed in the necessary skills "valued for their own worth but seen simultaneously as deriving their most profound significance from God's plan for his creation."

Realizing the dignity and worth of the individual person, and aware that this education must prepare each student for his or her place in life, Saint Francis Academy offers a well-balanced program involving sacramental preparation and instruction based on the spiritual, moral, intellectual, emotional, social, and physical needs of each student.

The school's namesake, Saint Francis of Assisi (1181–1226), prayed for the grace to serve as an agent of God's love and peace on earth. His prayer still inspires us today and guides us in our acts of service to one another.

PRAYER OF ST. FRANCIS

Lord, Make me an instrument of Thy peace
Where there is hatred....let me sow love.
Where there is injury....pardon
Where there is discord....unity.
Where there is doubt....faith.
Where there is error....truth.
Where there is despair....hope.
Where there is darkness....light.
Where there is sadness....joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled....as to console.
To be understood....as to understand.
To be loved....as to love.

For it is in giving...that we receive.
It is in pardoning....that we are pardoned.
It is in dying...that we are born to eternal life