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GrACE Youth Summit 2026: New Date!
GrACE Youth Summit 2026: New Date!
We now resume our work together and carry all of our momentum forward to October 23, 2026, as we continue building a summit worthy of our students and our mission!
Advent: A Season of Hope, Presence, and Promise
Advent: A Season of Hope, Presence, and Promise
As we enter Advent and begin our watch for the coming of Christ, GrACE acknowledges with deep gratitude the essential service of our Catholic school trustees and educators.
Your steady leadership, faithful witness, and daily dedication carry the gift of Catholic education into every classroom and community across Alberta, the Northwest Territories, and the Yukon. You safeguard what generations before us built and ensure our children inherit schools grounded in Christ and enriched by the enduring treasures of our Catholic heritage.
Welcoming Our New Archbishop
This Advent, as the Church waits in hope for the birth of the Lord, we joyfully welcome His Grace, Archbishop Stephen Hero, newly appointed to shepherd the Archdiocese of Edmonton. His prayerfulness, pastoral wisdom, and quiet strength will serve the faithful of central Alberta with humility and conviction.
His appointment comes at a moment when Advent invites us to renewed trust in God’s providence. The arrival of a new archbishop reminds us that Christ Himself continues to guide His Church, raising up pastors who proclaim the Gospel with clarity and serve God’s people with generous hearts.
Across our schools, parishes, and families, we hold him in prayer as he embraces this sacred responsibility. May the Holy Spirit be his counsel, Our Lady his protection, and Christ his constant light as he begins this ministry.
GrACE looks forward to walking with him in our shared mission of Catholic education—rooted in the Gospel, faithful to the Church, and devoted to forming young people in truth, virtue, and hope.
GrACE Advent Reflection
GrACE Advent Reflection
Advent: Making Room for Christ in Our Schools
Advent: Making Room for Christ in Our Schools
As we enter the season of Advent, we turn our hearts toward Christ — the Light who comes to renew the world and to renew each of us.
Advent is a time of watching and waiting, but also a time of preparing. In our Catholic schools, this preparation happens every day through the faithful witness of teachers and staff, the leadership of trustees, the guidance of clergy, and the prayerful support of parents and parishioners. Together, you make Christ visible in countless quiet and powerful ways.
Catholic education is more than curriculum; it is a mission rooted in hope. Advent reminds us that God often works in small beginnings — a manger, a humble “yes,” a simple act of faith. Our schools echo this truth each time a child encounters Christ through learning, community, and love.
May this Advent season draw us closer to the heart of our mission:
to form minds in truth and hearts in faith, and to make room for Christ in every classroom, parish, and home.
From all of us at GrACE,
May you experience a blessed and hope-filled Advent.
The Frame and The Flame: GrACE Incorporation
The Frame and The Flame: GrACE Incorporation
Incorporation provides GrACE with stability and continuity, but more importantly, it gave structure to a movement already alive in the hearts of Catholic educators, trustees, parents, clergy, and students.
Incorporation provides GrACE with stability and continuity, but more importantly, it gave structure to a movement already alive in the hearts of Catholic educators, trustees, parents, clergy, and students.
It is not about formality — it was about fidelity: ensuring that the mission of Catholic education endures beyond personalities, projects, and seasons.
Structure alone does not create a movement — it gives the movement room to grow.
Incorporation provided the frame, but the Spirit provides the life.
GrACE’s new foundation now depends on the generosity of individuals who step forward — trustees, educators, clergy, and parents — whose faith turns framework into mission.
The structure now safeguards what hearts have built: a living movement sustained by people, not policy.
From Initiative to Movement
From Initiative to Movement
GrACE has grown from a coordinated effort into a permanent Catholic movement of gratitude, formation, and witness.
Since incorporating in April 2025, we’ve moved boldly from coordination to communion — stepping into a new missionary era grounded in witness, formation, and renewal.
GrACE no longer builds only advocacy; it builds advocates — parents, trustees, clergy, and educators formed as missionary disciples who live the Gospel with courage and joy.
Rooted in Christ, GrACE stands as a beacon of hope for Catholic education across Alberta, the Northwest Territories, and the Yukon.
“Catholic education is one of the Church’s most enduring gifts to society.
Its preservation depends not on institutions alone but on witnesses — people who live the faith they teach.”
— Archbishop Richard W. Smith, Former GrACE Chairperson (2023)
A Movement of the Heart
A Movement of the Heart
A true movement begins in the soul of an individual.
It begins the moment someone chooses to give rather than receive — to ask not what Catholic education can do for them, but what they can do for the mission of Catholic education. That spark of conviction — quiet, humble, and faithful — is how every renewal begins.
When one person steps forward, the light spreads. When many do, a movement is born.
That movement is GrACE — a living witness that Catholic education is not sustained by entitlement but by witness, not by maintenance but by mission, not by expectation but by generosity of heart.
2025-2026 Catholic Education Theme:
2025-2026 Catholic Education Theme:
Anchored in Christ, A Beacon of Hope
Anchored in Christ, A Beacon of Hope
(Hebrews 6:19)
(Hebrews 6:19)
This year’s theme for the new school year is more than a slogan—it’s a shift in posture. It challenges us to move from maintenance to mission, from protecting what we have to boldly proclaiming who we are. To be anchored in Christ is to place our trust not in changing trends or cultural approval, but in the unchanging truth of Jesus Christ and the sacramental life of the Church. To become beacons of hope means living and leading in a way that draws others toward that truth—with clarity, courage, and joy. In a time of uncertainty, Catholic education stands as a visible sign of conviction, compassion, and Christ-centred purpose.
GrACE Resources for 2025–2026
GrACE Resources for 2025–2026
Rooted in our 2025–2026 theme, GrACE offers a collection of resources to unify, inspire, and mobilize Catholic schools, parishes, and families across Alberta, the Yukon, and the Northwest Territories. These materials support our bold movement from maintenance to mission, grounded in faith, tradition, and shared witness.
Use Freely. Share Boldly. Witness Faithfully.
We invite you—educators, clergy, parents, and students—to integrate these tools into the life of your community. Whether in the classroom, the home, or the parish, may they help you live and proclaim the Good News with renewed courage and joy.
Thank you for your steadfast commitment to Catholic education—rooted in tradition, alert to the present, and open to God’s unfolding call. May these resources shine as beacons of hope in your ministry.
Explore GrACE resources for Catholic Education Week 2025 — Anchored in Christ, A Beacon of Hope
https://www.gracealberta.org/news-views/catholic-education-week
From Maintenance to Mission: You are the Movement
From Maintenance to Mission: You are the Movement
Catholic education does not sustain itself. It is not the responsibility of a select few—it is the responsibility of YOU.
The Sacred Triad of home, school, and parish is only as strong as the people who uphold it.
Policies, governance, and institutions cannot carry this mission alone—it requires each of us.
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From Maintenance to Mission: You are the Movement
From Maintenance to Mission: You are the Movement
Catholic education does not sustain itself. It is not the responsibility of a select few—it is the responsibility of YOU.
The Sacred Triad of home, school, and parish is only as strong as the people who uphold it.
Policies, governance, and institutions cannot carry this mission alone—it requires each of us.
Join the movement. Be the movement.
Join the movement. Be the movement.
Check out how you can make a difference in our News & Views/Maintenance to Mission Tab.
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