On Saturday, March 2nd, Red Cloud High School students left the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota for Cristo Rey St. Martin in Waukegan. Their seventeen hour trek, hampered by nasty winter weather, began a cultural exchange between the two high schools that will span eleven days and thirty-six hundred miles. This exchange program, which is in its third … Read More
The Snowy and Cold Junior Class Retreat
Early in February the junior class (one-hundred in all) headed out for Camp Duncan in Ingleside, Illinois to gather for the 2019 Junior Class Retreat. You may remember the weather on February 1st – nine inches of snow and sub-zero temperatures! Though the weather did shorten the retreat, there was no lack of enthusiasm among the participants about the value … Read More
Celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
On Tuesday January 22nd Cristo Rey St. Martin students experienced a prayer service quite different from what they have come to expect in typical Catholic religious services. In celebration of the life of Martin Luther King Jr., Cristo Rey St. Martin invited the First Baptist Church of North Chicago to lead a worship service in the tradition of the A.M.E. … Read More
Cristo Rey St. Martin Celebrates Posada
Again, as in years past, Cristo Rey St. Martin students re-enacted Mary and Joseph’s journey to Bethlehem – traveling from place to place seeking rest and shelter. Posada is a centuries-old tradition celebrated throughout Mexico, Guatemala and migrant communities in the United States. CRSM participated in Posada in two ways this year. At 7am on December 14th, a group of … Read More
World Religion Discussion Held
As the world around us seems to further divide based on our differences, scholars from major world religions came together at the Religious Founders Day Interfaith Workshop to present and lead discussions about welcoming neighbors regardless of religion, race or social standing. For a third consecutive year Cristo Rey St. Martin College Prep and the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community joined together … Read More
Interfaith Events Lead to Cristo Rey St. Martin – Rochelle Zell Jewish High School Friendships
One year ago this November, the CRSM Campus Ministry hosted a gathering of religious leaders from different faith traditions. Representatives from the Ahmadiyya Muslim, Sikh, Catholic and Jewish communities participated as panelists. One hundred and twenty guests were in attendance for the presentations and discussions. At that panel discussion, Rabbi Zach Silver of Rochelle Zell Jewish High School and Jim … Read More
Cardinal Cupich blesses new campus at Mass of the Holy Spirit
The Mass of the Holy Spirit is a tradition among Catholic schools in which the community gathers to thank God for the gifts of creation and salvation and to seek the guidance and wisdom of the Holy Spirit in the coming year. On Friday, Sept. 14, 2018, the Cristo Rey St. Martin (CRSM) community welcomed Cardinal Blase Cupich, Archbishop of … Read More
Students learn life lessons taught at the U.S. – Mexico border
In June, a group of recent CRSM graduates took a trip to the U.S.-Mexico border as part of an immersion program where they were able to hear and witness the first-hand stories from the migrants most intimately impacted by the recently-heightened plight of immigrants. Students from CRSM traveled for five days with their peers from St Viator High School in … Read More
Adding Value to the World: Celebrating Work and Social Justice
From the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker, to spending Spring Break at Red Cloud Indian School in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, students, faculty and staff reflected and brought to life the value of work and the quest for social justice. Here are highlights of these two Campus Ministry programs: Spring Break on the Indian Reservation For the second consecutive … Read More
Raising hearts and prayers to take action against violence
“We will not give up. We will not give in,” was the rallying cry on March 14, 2018, one month after the school shooting in Parkland, FL, when CRSM students and staff walked outside to join schools across the country to say “enough is enough” – to school shootings and to gun violence in our country. “It’s a cycle,” said … Read More