CRSM is saying goodbye to its Assistant Director of Campus Ministry, Daisy Morales. Ms. Morales is a graduate of Cristo Rey St. Martin. She recently received her Masters in Counseling and will be working as a therapist in an alternative school. She will be working with children, including many that are processing trauma. During her fellowship, she will also be … Read More
Social Justice & the CRSM Community: Working for Others
CRSM, along with Most Blessed Trinity Academy, continues to distribute Breakfasts and Lunches on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Big Shoulders’ cooperative meal program with La Fondita (the Jimenez family), Taqueria Campeña (the Cambray family), Antojitos Guerrero (the Otero & Retana families) and Potestas (the Gonzalez/Alonso family) was a major success, putting hundreds of amazing meals on family tables. In a … Read More
Campus Ministry Gathers and Celebrates the Seniors
The CRSM graduating class of 2020 met for a Zoom retreat on May 15. Rather than gathering at the Viatorian Province Center for a final spring retreat as they typically have done, seniors and staff logged on to a video conferencing platform and reflected on the last four years together. After a chance to reconnect and some Zoom games, students … Read More
Ministry: Our Students and Our Community
Campus Ministry is Standing Next to Students and Their Families The Virtual Sophomore Retreat Broadview prayer vigils for immigrants in detention A Virtual Easter Season Taize Prayer Manning the Lunch Meal Distribution Program Organizing the Big Shoulders’ Local Restaurant Funding Program Pitching in to distribute Home Run Inn frozen pizzas (Donated by the Big Shoulders Fund) The Virtual Sophomore Retreat … Read More
From Campus Ministry
Beginning on Monday, March 30th, Campus Ministry organized the distribution of school breakfasts and boxed lunches to Cristo Rey families at no cost. Lunches are available each day, 11am-1pm, Monday through Friday. Just before the pandemic began… CRSM was lucky to have finished the full week (and the first half) of our cultural immersion exchange with Red Cloud Indian … Read More
Students Lead Ash Wednesday Prayer Service
On Wednesday the student body celebrated Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent with an all-school prayer service. Students received ashes – in the sign of the cross as a sign of repentance and a sign of our faith as we begin Lent together. This was a Taize prayer service, organized and led by students – the musicians, the songs, … Read More
CRSM Celebrates Martin Luther King Jr.
On January 21st, CRSM honored Dr. King’s life and his mission of spreading God’s dream for us with an all-school prayer service. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is a wonderful example of using our voices to seek justice for all humans and highlighted the importance of seeing one another as brothers and sisters. Pierre Edmonds (Dean of Students), an ordained … Read More
The Events of POSADA 2019
Again this year CRSM celebrated Posada in two ways. At 5:45 am on Friday December 13, Campus Ministry took students to an immigration Posada Prayer Walk in downtown Chicago. The posada was sponsored by the Archdiocese of Chicago, Office of Human Dignity and Solidarity-Immigration Ministry, which connects the search of Mary & Joseph for shelter before Jesus was born with … Read More
November is Our Month
November may be Campus Ministry’s busiest month. As Jim Dippold, Director of Campus Ministry put it, “November is our month”. Starting with the Feast of St. Martin de Porres on November 3rd and ending on the 24th of the month with the Catholic Church’s worldwide celebration of the Feast of Christ the King, Campus Ministry involved scores of CRSM students, … Read More
93 Juniors Work with Discover Financial and “Together We Rise” to Aid Foster Children
On October 25th the Junior class spent the afternoon building 80 bicycles and creating more than 120 Sweet Cases and Superhero Boxes for foster children – all with hand-decorated messages of care. In Chicago, kids entering foster care receive two trash bags containing their essentials. Together We Rise (TWR), a non-profit organization dedicated to transforming the way kids experience foster … Read More