COVID-19 Resources & Documents

“Let nothing disturb you, 
Let nothing frighten you, 
All things are passing away: 
God never changes. 
Patience obtains all things
Whoever has God lacks nothing; 
God alone suffices.”

~St. Teresa of Avila

The Catholic schools in the Diocese of Tucson are opening in hybrid mode while they continue to offer rigorous online learning.  Each school’s 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 respond to the needs of their school faculty, staff, and students. Each hybrid plan contains mitigation protocols to ensure the safety of school faculty, staff, and students.  Our five-pronged planning focus is framed around Catholic identity, health & safety, building & maintaining community, curriculum & instruction, and technology needs. Because each school has drafted their own plan based on community surveys, we encourage interested parents/guardians to check with their school of interest for specific details on their school campus 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)