The Family Foundation School Spirit

Living Lent

March 3, 2012

By Roderick O. This past week chapel services have prepared the students for the celebration of lent. Lent is a time to remember all the pain and suffering that Jesus endured to save us. To me this special season means a time of giving back and living for God. During this morning’s chapel service there was [...]

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The Three L’s

February 19, 2012

By Roderick O. This week’s Tuesday morning Jewish service featured a list of steps to help get us through any hard time. Although the steps contained a wide variety, there were three that stuck out to me. These steps were let go of the situation, learn from it, and lose the negative attitude. Sometimes it’s [...]

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Awareness of our surroundings

February 17, 2012

By Roderick O. Pam A.’s Wednesday morning chapel service this week brought awareness of other people to the students’ attention. How does what we do and say affect others around us? “In a race all the runners run. But only one gets the prize. You know that, don’t you? So run in a way that [...]

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Practice Makes Perfect

February 5, 2012

By Roderick O. This weeks’ Catholic service at The Family Foundation School shed a new light of hope to the students. The gospel reading, from Luke 2:22-40, touched on how we must be constantly searching for God in our everyday lives. Simeon and Anna, from the reading, are a couple that spend every night in [...]

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Punishment or Gift from God?

January 26, 2012

Roderick O. Every prayer time in Talbot House we sit silently and meditate for before we start. We do this to center ourselves and better our connection with our higher power. When meditation is over, I choose a psalm to read from the bible, one usually reflecting my feelings for that day. My friend Sebastian [...]

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Spiritual Beings Having Human Experience

January 12, 2012

By Ileana A. “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.” When I heard this quote, by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, this morning during chapel, I was quite struck with the idea that I am not a human being. Oddly, there was also a sense of [...]

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Mary’s Miracle

December 18, 2011

By Ileana A. This Friday, during our morning chapel service, Father Liz invited two students to reenact the scene where Gabriel tells Mary what is about to happen to her. The reenactment was a contemporary version. It ended with Gabriel saying, “God doesn’t want you to give Him your body, He wants you to give [...]

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Waiting for Christmas

November 30, 2011

By Ileana A. With the start of the season of Advent, Christmas is in the air here at The Family Foundation School. The families have been decorated and there is talk about the upcoming shopping trip. This week’s nondenominational chapel service focused on just that. According to statistics, America spends an average of $450 billion [...]

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