Thanksgiving Drive is Underway
In the course of three months our Belen community rallied to help relieve the suffering of so many affected by the damage caused during this hurricane season.
It goes without saying that we ‘ran to the fire’. Together, we collected over $40,000 to help the people in Houston, the Florida Keys and Puerto Rico.
This is an unbelievable achievement and a testament of who we are as a generous community of God. I know that we can approach the Thanksgiving Food Drive with the same enthusiasm and energy. The Campus Ministry Department and the Alumni Office will collect nonperishable items that will benefit those in need from select parishes. Students in grades 6, 9, and 12 will collect for Gesu. Students in grades 7 and 11 for St. Michael. Students in grades 8 and 10 for St. Dominic and the Marianitas Sisters. The deadline for the collection will be Friday, November 17th.
Our goal is to fill at minimum two boxes per homeroom with the assigned items. Students in the middle school should bring rice, beans, canned ham, canned tuna, pancake mix, syrup, sugar, and salt. Students in the high school should bring macaroni and cheese, vegetable/canola oil, Vienna sausages, Cuban coffee, cereal, mashed potatoes, and seasonings (Adobo Goya, Completa). All students are encouraged to also donate $5 gift cards for Publix, Sedanos, or Winn Dixie.
During this season of giving lets be generous and ensure that these families in need are able to celebrate a nice Thanksgiving meal. These parishes depend on our generosity, a virtue we never lack. Saint Ignatius of Loyola said it best, “Teach us, good Lord, to serve you as you deserve, to give and not to count the cost, to fight and not to heed the wounds, to toil and not to seek for rest, to labour and not to ask for any reward, save that of knowing that we do your will.”
BELEN JESUIT PREPARATORY SCHOOL
500 SW 127th Avenue, Miami, FL 33184
phone: 305.223.8600 | fax: 305.227.2565 | email: communications@belenjesuit.org
500 SW 127th Avenue, Miami, FL 33184
phone: 305.223.8600 | fax: 305.227.2565 | email: communications@belenjesuit.org
Belen Jesuit Preparatory School was founded in 1854 in Havana, Cuba, by Queen Isabel II of Spain. The task of educating students was assigned to the priests and brothers of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits), whose teaching tradition is synonymous with academic excellence and spiritual discipline. In 1961, the new political regime of Cuba confiscated the school's property and expelled the Jesuit faculty. The School was re-established in Miami the same year, and over the next decade, continued to grow. Today, Belen Jesuit is situated on a 34-acre site in western Dade County, just minutes away from downtown Miami.