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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.

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

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 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.

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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