Student Life

Campus Ministry

Main Number: (415) 334-0525   Fax Number: (415) 334-9726

Name/Title/Profile	E-mail	Ext.
Dr. Rita Cutarelli Director of Campus Ministry Ed. D, University of San Francisco M. Div., The Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley AB, College of the Holy Cross		x219
Laura Flaviani Liturgical Musical Director		x379
Rev. Greg McGivern Chaplain		x218
Carrie Schroeder Campus Minister M. Div, The Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley BA, The Catholic University of America		x367

 

The Campus Ministry room is located on the second floor, Room 200. Visitors are always welcome! If our Director of Campus Ministry or the Campus Ministry Team can be of any help to your family, or if you would like to volunteer your time and talent, please contact Ms. Rita Cutarelli.

Campus Life Team: Core Team | Retreat Team

Retreat information

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The Department of Campus Ministry takes as its starting point these statements from the Mercy High School Philosophy Statement:

Mercy recognizes the goal of helping each student to mature
in her own religious faith in a Catholic Christian environment that nurtures
self-esteem, integrity, respect for human rights, compassion for others,
and a maturing faith in God. In this climate, which stresses mutual respect,
Mercy encourages the student to work toward becoming a sensitive
and self-confident adult who demonstrates a responsible concern for the human
condition and responds to the needs of the world.

 

The Department of Campus Ministry at Mercy High School is an outreach to the entire community to promote Christian life. Opportunities to expand that life are provided to all students and faculty. All members of the school community share responsibility for its faith life. Youth ministry, in the best sense, is experienced in all of young people's relationships--with each other, with caring adults, with their families and with the larger community. Teachers, especially, attempt to integrate this ministry into their own roles as educators. A team of faculty and a core group of students seek to provide the student body with:

1. a "connection" where they can associate with others whose beliefs and values support their own;
2. a forum for discussing and testing questions which arise at times when life experiences test one's beliefs;
3. opportunities to experience "Mercy" as compassion and care for others;
4. times and places for building habits of peaceful reflection;
5. opportunities to act on personal values by exercising leadership in religious and spiritual spheres;
6. opportunities to interact and enjoy one another as a Christian community;
7. opportunities to interact as part of the wider community:

    

   • Archbishop Riordan High School
   • local elementary schools
   • parishes
   • diocese
   • community agencies

All students are invited to witness to their faith through the following venues:

• all-school liturgies (Eucharistic liturgies and Liturgies of the Word)
• retreats
• fund-raising activities for local non-profit agencies

 

All students are invited to exercise leadership and actively participate in Campus Ministry through the following:

• Liturgical Ministry Training as an acolyte (altar server), lector, Eucharistic Minister, and/or music minister
• Campus Ministry Core Team (see Campus Life Team description)
• Campus Ministry Retreat Team (see Campus Life Team description)
• Frosh Retreat Leader (Juniors and Seniors only)