List of 5 items.

• Masses

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  All school masses and prayer services are held throughout the school year. Under the guidance of our Campus Minister, students participate as altar servers, lectors, and cantors taking on leadership roles in the liturgy. All students are encouraged to actively participate in worship services and masses. Music, art, reenactments, movement, and symbolism are incorporated wherever possible.

• Morning Prayer

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  Every morning Mayfield Junior School students, faculty, and staff gather to begin the day together in prayer. Morning Prayer provides an opportunity for the entire school to share reminders and good news, and to pray for the many needs of the world.

• Religion Classes

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  Throughout their years at Mayfield, students are encouraged to discover and strengthen their spirituality, and to understand their relationship with God. The religion program is designed to give students a strong foundation in Catholic Social Teachings and an awareness of their responsibility to act with integrity, kindness and compassion towards others. Faith in action is infused throughout the entire curriculum encouraging mindfulness, good decisions, and an open heart.

• Sacramental Program

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  The sacramental program is the primary focus of religious instruction during the second grade year. Catholic students prepare for and receive the Sacraments of Reconciliation and Eucharist. Students of other faiths are involved in the instruction and preparations, and are invited to join their classmates in the ceremony and celebration. Those students receive their own special blessing at the service.

• Stations of the Cross

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  For more than two decades, Holy Week at Mayfield has included a live presentation of the Stations of the Cross by the sixth grade. Always reverent and expressive, the presentation is significant by a special focus placed on personal experience and understanding. Students study the Scriptural Stations of the Cross researching the path Jesus walked and his relationships with those he encountered on the way. They find and share different artists’ depictions of each station in religion class, then look deeper to find a connection with one that resonates with their lives. Finally, students write personal reflections of gratitude, hope and humility to be read as part of the narrative. 
  
  

  As the study and research happens in religion class, students begin to stage the individual Stations in drama class and introduce the songs that mark the moments as Jesus’ journey progress. Groups of students work collaboratively for weeks to set each actor’s placement in each of the Stations, to convey the action and emotion in each scene, and practice gestures that invite the assembly to participate. In the week before the performance, costumes are fitted, and the sixth graders move to the gymnasium for rehearsal with the third-grade sacred dancers who stand on the outer border of the performance area enhancing the journey’s progress with graceful movement.