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“Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence,
so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.”
Hebrews 4:16
The Catholic schools in the Diocese of Tucson are opening remotely while they continue rigorous planning for the safe re-opening of their school campuses. Campus reopening will follow the Governor’s Executive Order as to when campuses can safely reopen. All school planning is aligned with the guidance and recommendations from their local health department, Arizona Department of Education, Arizona Department of Health Services, and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). The Department of Catholic Schools continues to work with our school leaders, providing resources, recommendations, and considerations in response to some very challenging questions as they diligently and prayerfully finalize re-entry plans specific to the needs and responses from their school faculty, staff, and parents/guardians. Each plan contains mitigation protocols and flexibility as schools may go from 100% online to a hybrid model to 100% on campus, depending on local health data and the health needs of their students and teachers. Our five-pronged focus is framed around Catholic identity, health & safety, building & maintaining community, curriculum & instruction, and technology needs. Because each school has drafted their own plan, we encourage interested parents/guardians to check with their school of interest for specific details on their school re-entry plan. In this most unprecedented time, I ask you to prayerfully support our Catholic school leaders, teachers, parents/guardians, and students as we all navigate these unknown, often-turbulent waters together, confident that Christ is with us. He may be sleeping in the boat, but He will calm the waters and see us through this storm!...Leaving the crowd, they took him with them in the boat just as he was. And other boats were with him. A violent squall came up and waves were breaking over the boat, so that it was already filling up. Jesus was in the stern, asleep on a cushion. They woke him and said to him, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?” He woke up, rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Quiet! Be still!” The wind ceased and there was great calm. Then he asked them, “Why are you terrified? Do you not yet have faith?”
(Mark 4:35-41)