Religion Department

Mission

The Religion department of St. Raymond High School for Boys seeks to foster the growth of each student by offering courses that are designed to promote critical thinking and increase student awareness of the Catholic Faith. As a result, students are usually inspired to discover new opportunities for life application and faith development.

Curriculum

Freshman: Introduction to Catholicism and Old Testament Studies
Sophomore: Old Testament Prophets and New Testament Studies
Junior: Christian Morality and Peace and Justice
Senior: Christian Lifestyle, Advanced Bible Study, Christian Vocations, Mysticism: A Catholic Perspective, East Meets West, Lives of the Saints: Church History

Religion Department Faculty

Mr. Christopher Corvi ’90, Department Chair
Mr. Mario Astarita
Mr. Richard Duncan ‘68
Br. Richard Galvin ’82, Campus Minister
Ms. Michelle Genna
Mr. Robert Heckmann
Ms. Christine Schmidt

School Calendar

School Handbook

1/13 Sophomore Retreat
1/13 Alumni Association Meeting
1/15 TACHS Results Mailed
1/19 Martin Luther King Day-No School
1/21 Parents' Association 7pm
1/21 End of marking Period
1/22 School Exams Begin
1/26 Regents Exams Begin
1/28 Winter Open House Prospective Students

LaSallian Educator Award '08-'09

Mrs. Adoracion Macalintal has been a stalwart not just in the Mathematics department, but the entire St. Raymond community for 8 years. For her efforts, consistency and immersion in the mission, Mrs. Macalintal has been honored with the most notable award the school can bestow upon a faculty member, the Lasallian Educator of the Year. Each year the faculty and staff are charged with the responsibility of choosing a peer who best embodies the teachings and spirit of St. John Baptist de La Salle.

De La Salle is very explicit as to what that spirit is: "The spirit of this our institutions and teachings," he writes in Chapter 2 of the 1705 Rule, "is first, a spirit of faith... Secondly, the spirit of consists in an ardent zeal for the instruction of children in the institute’s community.” The spirit of the Lasallian educator, therefore, has three components: faith, zeal, and community. These are not three distinct spirits, but really only three aspects of the one spirit of faith, overflowing into zeal, and demonstrated in a concrete way in a faith community. Mrs. Macalintal undoubtedly fosters these values and models the life of a Lasallian.

Part of the excerpt above is credited to Br. Luke Salm, FSC ,at the Christian Brothers Conference, Christian Brothers Retreat House, St. Helena, California February 12-14, 1988

Current faculty members who have received this award are Mr. Michael McCauley (1989), Br. Christopher Foley, F.S.C. (1992), Mr. Ronald Patnosh (1994), Mrs. Phyllis Sobieralski (1998), Mrs. Evelyn Cabuhat (2000), Mrs. Edita Chico (2001), Mrs. Judith Carew (2002), Mr. James Winkle ’82 (2005), Mr. Richard Duncan ’68 (2006), and Mr. Christopher Corvi ’90 (2007).