Central to living of the mission is our campus ministry programming. Academic planning is important – however, partnering with families to raise faithful, respectful, altruistic young people is a task that we take very seriously. For our part, this is accomplished through daily prayer, retreat experiences, all-school liturgies, participation in the L.I.F.E.

(living in faith experience) program, the 4-day service-learning program which places all CMCP students and teachers in the community doing service each February, the thanksgiving harvest food drive and, the women in distress annual collection. For more than seventeen years, our girls’ volleyball team has hosted the CM Cares tournament in September to support breast cancer research in conjunction with Holy Cross hospital. Over those years approximately $65,000 has been raised.to date.

All of these activities point back to the core mission of who we are. The students know it, the parents support it, and the alumni community is proud of it.

The upper-class persons in our campus ministry program act as facilitators for activities involving younger students including our freshmen and sophomore days of reflection. In addition, some local catholic elementary schools have utilized our campus and our students for their fourth or fifth grade retreat days.

The intersection between campus ministry and other planning aspects of the school is evidenced through the work on the Mission Integration Team. This team of adults includes our Marianist representatives (chaplain, director of the office, head of school and additional lay faculty and staff members). The purpose of this group is to support the work of campus ministry and ensure the inclusion of Marianist pedagogy in various aspects of the school.

In order to best execute the campus ministry activities, there are two full-time campus minsters who share the responsibility for the planning, execution, and recruitment/involvement of many students!