It is with great enthusiasm that I welcome you to the St. John School Family Website!
Although our online presence is currently under construction, we hope our website offers you a sense of the joy of our North End school community and the passion we have for our educational mission. We daily seek to live out authentically the call of the new evangelization, by lovingly welcoming every student, who, being made in the image and likeness of God, is a precious gift from heaven. In recognizing the sacredness of all human life, we strive to affirm their human dignity and celebrate their unique and unrepeatable value. The Sacred Congregation for Catholic Education envisions Catholic schools as the privileged means of promoting the integral formation of the whole person from within. We therefore assiduously strive to not only develop the growth of each student’s full potential in their intellectual and academic capacity, but also through faith formation, to develop a robust interior life within each student by cultivating a fruitful encounter with our living God within the context of a prayerful community “that is permeated by the Gospel spirit of freedom and love.” Being mindful that we have been redeemed by Christ, our deepest hope is to be a vibrant Franciscan school of love that teaches the truth of the Gospel by forming students in the virtues “which will enable them to live a new life in Christ and help them to faithfully embrace their universal call to love and equip them in building up the Kingdom of God. As St. Thomas More once wrote “I would rather have learning joined with virtue than all the treasures of kings.”
Fr. Michael Della Penna ofm, Ph.D.