This summer, 16 Cristo Rey Jesuit students, along with English teacher Andrew Hoyt, traveled together to the historic and beautiful campus of the University of Notre Dame for a five-day conference about vocation and giftedness. The conference, Notre Dame Vision, a national summer program for high school students, challenges participants to ask important questions about life, faith, and how to use their gifts to be the change they want to see in the world.
While on campus at Notre Dame, the Cristo Rey Jesuit students lived in dorms and spent their days learning with more than 400 high school students from around the country and 75 Notre Dame Students who served as mentors during the conference. Whether they were praying at the grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes or the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, attending sessions in the gorgeous lecture halls on campus, enjoying the benefits of a college dining hall, or just spending time with their new friends, our students leapt into the experience and came back from their first week on a college campus transformed and ready to begin the school year.
Now back at Cristo Rey Jesuit, these 16 students have shared their experience with their classmates and have started a group to assist with Campus Ministry activities and find other ways to use their gifts and talents to serve the school community. The group is now beginning to sell snacks and concessions at sports games and after school to fundraise, in hopes of taking even more students with them next summer.
