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The Felician Core Values and OLSH: Forming and Empowering Christian Leaders Who Will Make a Difference in Our World

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At OLSH we work diligently to instill the Felician Sisters’ Core Values in each of our students during their tenure in high school, and form them in our Catholic faith. By doing so, we fulfill our mission, which is:

Rooted in Catholic Felician Franciscan tradition,
Our Lady of the Sacred Heart High School
educates and transforms each student
for a life of exceptional Christian leadership,
stewardship, and service to all.

We are unwavering in our commitment to respecting the dignity of each of our students, and developing them into change-makers and champions who will stand out in our world through the relationships they nurture, decisions they make, and Christ-like care and compassion they exude. We encourage them to be good listeners. We prepare them to bear witness to respectfulness, solidarity, compassion, human dignity and justice. We let them know that much is expected of them as they reach adulthood, and we reinforce what is true, what is right, and what is honorable. And we defend and protect the sanctity of all human lives, from conception to natural death. As Pope Francis has further offered in light of this time of significant suffering, “My friends, we cannot tolerate or turn a blind eye to racism and exclusion in any form and yet claim to defend the sacredness of every human life...”

We invite everyone in our OLSH community – to join with us in self-reflection – and consider how each of us can put the core values into action (in big and small ways), to serve others as Christian leaders, in a world that needs more love, respect, forgiveness, compassion, transformation, solidarity, justice, and peace.

Please join us in this Prayer for Justice and Peace:

Creator of All, make us men and women of your peace and your justice.
Where there is oppression, let us bring equality.
Where there is abuse, dignity.
Where there is exploitation, justice.
Where there is conflict, resolution.
Where there is discrimination, mutuality.
Where there is violence, vision.
Where there is powerlessness, power.
O Strengthening Spirit,
Grant that we may not so much seek,
To compete as to collaborate,
To exclude as to include,
To dominate as to complement,
For it is in healing that we are healed,
It is in reconciling, that we are reconciled,
It is in our common bond, that we become whole.

-S. Ingrid Peterson, OSF


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