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Phoenix, Ariz., Mar 16, 2017 \/ 06:04 am (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- The Catholic school can be a missionary force to bring Christ to the world, the Bishop of Phoenix has said in a new apostolic letter.<\/p>\n

\u201cA mark of a truly Catholic school is the fruit that is borne in the lives of its graduates,\u201d Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted of Phoenix said. \u201cThat fruit is to be shown in the missionary activity of its graduates, called and sent by Jesus to be salt and light in the culture around them, knowing that people and cultures die without Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n

The bishop\u2019s apostolic letter \u201cEvangelizing through Catholic Schools<\/a>\u201d was dated March 3, the feast day of the Catholic educator St. Katharine Drexel.<\/p>\n

His letter said Catholic schools should be \u201ca place of encounter with Jesus Christ\u201d that can impart a Catholic worldview through the curriculum, help students achieve true freedom, and send them out as \u201cmissionary disciples to transform the culture.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many Catholic school students first must have a relationship of trust with someone who is a disciple of Christ, but once that is established\u00a0 \u201cthrough hospitality and kindness,\u201d he said, \u201cthe most loving thing a Catholic school can do is to share with each person the living Jesus Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n

Catholic schools help ensure that all students hear the basic Gospel message and are given \u201cthe freedom and help to make a response in faith.\u201d Catholic schools \u201ccannot exist for themselves.\u201d Rather, the gospel demands that when students are well-formed they be sent out \u201cas ambassadors of the truth and love of Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bishop Olmsted reflected that true freedom of Catholic education is rooted in the truth and draws from Christ's words from the Gospel of John: \u201cYou will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cA joyful and evangelized person is truly free to be and to live as a child of God,\u201d he said, criticizing views of freedom that separate it from truth. He contrasted freedom with slavery to sin.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Catholic education imparts to students the intellectual and moral virtues to know the Truth and to love the Good (which are both ultimately found in God) it is giving students the gift of true freedom,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

According to Bishop Olmsted, Catholic schools are much more than public schools with religion class and morality added.<\/p>\n

\u201cRather, the ethos of a Christian education vivifies and unites the totality of the school\u2019s curriculum,\u201d he said, praising Catholic educators\u2019 \u201cnoble vocation\u201d to help young people discover who they are.<\/p>\n

\u201cMay the parents, teachers and school children of our local Catholic schools \u2014 through their constant contact with Jesus the Word made Flesh \u2014 be inspired missionary disciples of His Kingdom,\u201d Bishop Olmsted said.<\/p>\n

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Phoenix, Ariz., Mar 16, 2017 \/ 06:04 am (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- The Catholic school can be a missionary force to bring Christ to the world, the Bishop of Phoenix has said in a new apostolic letter.<\/p>\n

“A mark of a truly Catholic school is the fruit that is borne in the lives of its graduates,” Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted of Phoenix said. “That fruit is to be shown in the missionary activity of its graduates, called and sent by Jesus to be salt and light in the culture around them, knowing that people and cultures die without Christ.”<\/p>\n

The bishop’s apostolic letter “Evangelizing through Catholic Schools<\/a>” was dated March 3, the feast day of the Catholic educator St. Katharine Drexel.<\/p>\n

His letter said Catholic schools should be “a place of encounter with Jesus Christ” that can impart a Catholic worldview through the curriculum, help students achieve true freedom, and send them out as “missionary disciples to transform the culture.”<\/p>\n

Many Catholic school students first must have a relationship of trust with someone who is a disciple of Christ, but once that is established  “through hospitality and kindness,” he said, “the most loving thing a Catholic school can do is to share with each person the living Jesus Christ.”<\/p>\n

Catholic schools help ensure that all students hear the basic Gospel message and are given “the freedom and help to make a response in faith.” Catholic schools “cannot exist for themselves.” Rather, the gospel demands that when students are well-formed they be sent out “as ambassadors of the truth and love of Christ.”<\/p>\n

Bishop Olmsted reflected that true freedom of Catholic education is rooted in the truth and draws from Christ’s words from the Gospel of John: “You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”<\/p>\n

“A joyful and evangelized person is truly free to be and to live as a child of God,” he said, criticizing views of freedom that separate it from truth. He contrasted freedom with slavery to sin.<\/p>\n

“When Catholic education imparts to students the intellectual and moral virtues to know the Truth and to love the Good (which are both ultimately found in God) it is giving students the gift of true freedom,” he said.<\/p>\n

According to Bishop Olmsted, Catholic schools are much more than public schools with religion class and morality added.<\/p>\n

“Rather, the ethos of a Christian education vivifies and unites the totality of the school’s curriculum,” he said, praising Catholic educators’ “noble vocation” to help young people discover who they are.<\/p>\n

“May the parents, teachers and school children of our local Catholic schools — through their constant contact with Jesus the Word made Flesh — be inspired missionary disciples of His Kingdom,” Bishop Olmsted said.<\/p>\n

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