As a boarding school, St. Michael’s offers significant opportunities for a consistent and wholesome growth toward maturity. Much of the responsibility for the day-to-day running of the school is shared with the students who learn to cooperate with their peers and with those in authority in attaining common goals. A positive but realistic self-knowledge along with an attitude of respect for others is the foundation of a young man’s moral character. The cultivation of individual dignity guides students to accept self-discipline and responsibility as essential aspects both of personal freedom and of participation in a community. St. Michael’s fosters this character development in all areas of student life.
- Students will possess a strong faith in God, and will manifest this faith by devout attention and reverence in church and at other times of prayer.
- Students will possess a firm hope and trust in God, manifested by their supernatural confidence in both good times and bad.
- Students will possess a lively charity, exemplified by specific acts of love for God, self and neighbor, as well as respect for authority.
- Students will develop sincere and wholesome friendships.
- Students will possess the virtue of prudence, manifested in sound decision-making and mature behavior.
- Students will possess true justice, shown in fairness to all persons, reconciliation in personal offense, and honesty in all things.
- Students will possess the virtue of temperance, ranging from good table manners to purity in word and deed.
- Students will possess true fortitude, manifested in patience with God, self and others, demonstrating good sportsmanship, and persevering through difficulties.
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