Being Xaverian - Our Lady of Good Counsel High School

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st. Gabriel’s middle-High school By student Daniel Weidner ’13 Pierre-Louis Joizil, a Haitian native educated by the Xaverian Brothers, was sponsored to go to college by the Xaverians and attended school in Port-au-Prince until the devastating earthquake in 2010. The Xaverians made it possible for Mr. Joizil to attend Siena College in New York to finish his education after the earthquake damaged the Sant (the home provided by the Xaverians for their sponsored students). After his college graduation, Mr. Joizil made the commitment to return to Haiti and build the first middle-high school in his home province of Fontaine. In October, Mr. Joizil visited Good Counsel for the third time. On each of his visits, he spoke to students in religion classes about St. Gabriel’s and his gratitude for our community’s assistance. The first time he visited, he talked about his dream of building a school. The second time he visited, he updated us about a leased property and the two classes held there. This third visit, Mr. Joizil shared stories and pictures of the newly built four-classroom school that opened this past Fall. The school was built because of Mr. Joizil’s dedication and the support of the Xaverian Brothers, Christ Our Light Catholic Church in Virginia, and Our Lady of Good Counsel High School. Good Counsel raised $5,000 last spring to provide scholarships for ten students (a yearly commitment from Good Counsel) and to help fund teacher salaries. Our school will once again have a fundraiser this Spring 2013 to raise funds for these efforts. Mr. Joizil is an example of living the Xaverian values: compassion, humility, simplicity, trust, and zeal; Bro. Mike McCarthy and Pierre-Louis Joizil — a young man who was sponsored for college by the Xaverian Brothers and has now returned to his home in Haiti to build a middle-high school. the embodiment of “falling in love with service to God and his people.” He is an inspiration and, because I participated in the Haiti mission/retreat trip last year, Mr. Joizil has become my friend. ✦ camden Students and faculty provided similar outreach in Camden, NJ, this past July sending six groups of fourteen students each for service projects through Romero Center Ministries Urban Challenge Program. The program is a service-learning, immersion experience rooted in the Catholic faith tradition. Students cleaned local neighborhoods, served the hungry at food banks, and spent time with people at nursing homes and homeless shelters. While service is a key part of both trips, students were equally impacted by the exposure to the challenges and circumstances of everyday life for the people living in impoverished areas around the world. The Good Counsel Boys’ Varsity Lacrosse Team went as a group on the Camden trip. sam Richardson ’13 and Garrett Brower ’13 emphasized that the service project had forced them out of their comfort zone and helped them to grow and appreciate all of the small things in life. “When working at the Abigail House, I was able to form relationships with many of the recovering patients,” mike Becraft ’13 said. David Lobosco ’13 worked with children at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center and remembers, “Even the kids who didn’t have much seemed happy, which made me happy to be there.” ✦ 8 on campus
Missionary Brother Michael McCarthy Celebrates 50Years of Service Ihad the opportunity to sit down with Br. Mike McCarthy ’62 to discuss Xaverian values and what it means to be a Xaverian in today’s world. This year, Br. Mike celebrates his 50th year of service as a Xaverian Brother and his fifth year of living and ministering at Maison Fortuné Orphanage in Hinche, Haiti. Let our agenda go with our shoes. —Brother Michael McCarthy ’62 Bro. Harry Eccles, Bro. Bill Griffin ’62 and Bro. Mike McCarthy ’62 in Hinche, Haiti Br. Mike, what drew you to becoming a Xaverian Brother and what inspires you to serve After graduating from Good Counsel back in 1962, I had the call to go. I was inspired by the Brothers teaching me in high school and their dedication to service. They were the men who helped form me. Living and serving in a fifth world country, like Haiti, the needs are more basic, more obvious than in more developed areas of the world. The material needs stand out more. I’m healthy, naturally adventuresome, and there is a certain freedom for me that comes with doing service in areas where others don’t want to go. What does it mean to be Xaverian Service and living a life of simplicity. Why, more than ever, is it important to live out the values of the Xaverian Brothers There is so much disparity in this world today. Especially in such a materialistic world, we need to continue to emphasize the values of social justice outreach and formation in our students. A key to this formation is the requirement of our students to complete 100 hours of service prior to graduation. What can our community (students, parents, alumni) take away from your work and the work of the Xaverian Brothers The community needs to assist the Xaverian Brothers and Good Counsel to be agents of transformation. For my work in Hinche, we need to empower people to provide Haitians with greater opportunities for education, healthcare, and economic growth. Don’t bring your own agenda to a country, take off your shoes. Our Lady of Good Counsel is committed to making the world a better place, and the campus ministry works tirelessly to achieve an impact that can be felt by many in need. When the students arrived in Haiti, Brother Michael McCarthy ’62 gave them each a prayer card so as to remind them of their mission’s purpose: Our first task in approaching Another people Another culture Another Religion Is to take off our shoes For the place we are Approaching is Holy Else we may find ourselves Treading on another’s Dream. More serious still, we may forget… That God Was there before our arrival —Author Unknown on campus 9
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