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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
With the May 28 News Release from Governor Ducey’s office declaring that schools will reopen in the fall, the Catholic schools in the Diocese of Tucson immediately began planning for the safe re-opening of their school campuses. With guidance and recommendations from the AZ Department of Education, AZ Department of Health Services, Pima County Health Department, Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the Department of Catholic Schools has been working with our school leaders, providing resources, recommendations, and considerations in response to some very challenging questions as they diligently and prayerfully draft re-entry plans specific to the needs and responses from their school faculty, staff, and parents/guardians. Our five-pronged focus is framed around Catholic identity, health & safety, building & maintaining community, curriculum & instruction, and technology needs. Because each school is drafting their own plan, I encourage interested parents/guardians to check with their school of interest mid-July as most should have drafted plans by then. 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)