Class of 2025 completes 15,817 hours of Christian service

74 seniors were recognized as members of the Century Club for completing over 100 hours of Christian service throughout their four years, making up 12,764 hours of the total amount completed by the Class of 2025. 

They have practiced compassionate leadership within a wide range of organizations where they explored their individual passions and made a real difference within our community. 

These students have answered the call to serve at their parishes and Churches including St. Bernadette fish fries, and St. Veronica, IHM, and St. Thomas More festivals. They have been counselors at Camp Ernst, through PRP and football camps at IHM, at volleyball and basketball camps at McNick, and at Camp Gaudeo through the St. Gregory the Great family of parishes. They have been lectors and servers at our all school Masses, served as school ambassadors, and led summer camps. They have empowered the mission of ministries such as the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Catholic Relief Services, Hands Across Campus, and Matthew 25 Ministries.

They have served our community by feeding the hungry at the SEM and Inter Parish Ministry Food Pantries and as tutors to younger students at Mt. Washington Elementary and Sands Montessori. They have served through the corporal works of mercy with Su Casa Hispanic Ministries, caring for the sick at Cincinnati Children's Hospital and the Ronald McDonald House, and baking chocolate chip cookies for the Kairos retreats held at the Lebanon Correctional Institution. They have built a culture of welcome and inclusion by designing and constructing Halloween costumes in partnership with May We Help, danced with elders at the SEM Haven Senior Prom, served those who have served at the Post 484 Fish Fry, and honored those that come before us through their stewardship at cemeteries. 

"We honor the many ways our seniors have risen to the challenge, as Rockets do, to put our faith in Christ and our love into action," said theology teacher and Mission and Ministry Co-Director Mr. Jeff Hutchinson-Smyth.