Campus Life

Campus Ministry

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  • Campus Ministry

    Rooted in the gospel message of Jesus Christ and animated by the values of Saint John Baptist de La Salle and the Brothers of the Christian Schools, the Campus Ministry team is committed to providing opportunities to support the holistic education, formation, and development of our students and their faith lives.
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Service Trips

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Peer Ministry

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  • Peer Ministry

    The Peer ministry program invites and engages La sSalle Academy students together in a transformative experience of prayer, reflection, and authentic christian community.

    This peer to peer relational ministry is grounded in the formation of small group faith communities, providing students with regular opportunity to:

    1.) Form and deepen dynamic relationships with other students, to likewise form and deepen a dynamic relationship with God

    2.) Share a model of Lasallian values and community with freshman and sophomore students on their class retreats

    3.) Participate in service opportunities that center the poor, uplift the oppressed, and form a critical consciousness about the world.

Christian Service

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  • Christian Service

    The Christian Service Program offers seniors the opportunity to engage in local service with our community partners in the city of Providence. Students serve at food pantries, nursing homes, day care centers, and in elementary and middle schools. Based on the beliefs and work of our founder, St. John Baptist de La Salle, students will learn how to reflect on their experience of service in order to become active and creative agents in society.

    De La Salle’s deep commitment to community places a responsibility on all who are educated in his model: that our educational communities must serve and uplift the poor and oppressed.

Class Retreats

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  • Retreats

    Students at La Salle Academy are required to attend a homeroom retreat during the freshman, sophomore and junior year. Each homeroom retreat will revolve around a unique theme that is both contextually and developmentally relevant. 

Kairos

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  • Kairos

    The Kairos Retreat at La Salle Academy is an opportunity for students to step away from the busyness of life and reflect on their relationship with God, themselves, and other people. Students will participate participate in community-based activities, listen to student-lead talks, and engage in small group conversation and sharing. The hope is to facilitate an experience or prayer, listening, and reflection that explores the ways they are uplifted by love from God, family and friends - and how to return that love. 
     
    The experience of Kairos holds space for students of all faith backgrounds and journeys; while each student leader speaks from their own faith background, Kairos is an interfaith experience. Students are encouraged to bring their own lived-faith to activities and discussions.
     
    Kairos is offered twice during the academic year, once in the fall and once in the spring.

Lasallian Youth

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  • Lasallian Youth

    Lasallian Youth provides students opportunities for encounter with the poor and marginalized within the Providence and Rhode Island community. Service is enriched through optional weekly meetings for reflection and community building. Three values guide the work of Lasallian Youth: Faith, Service, and Community. The work of students in Lasallian Youth is not to help or fix, but to build and grow in relationship with the people they serve and the students they serve alongside. Students are tasked with both assisting the poor in meeting their most basic needs, and also with thinking critically about root causes of injustice and ways to improve social structures so that they meet the needs of all. In doing the work and engaging in reflection, we hope students will grow as people of faith who are attentive to God’s endless love poured out into the world.

    Common Service Sites include:

    Students also have the opportunity to participate in national conventions, such as the annual Lasallian Youth Assembly.

Grief Group

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  • Grief Group

    La Salle offers a Grief Group for students who have a deceased parent, guardian, or sibling, to make connections with peers who have a similar experience of loss in a supportive and safe environment. The group meets once a month during the school day. Students are excused from class to attend. The group is facilitated by Ms. Jen Shepherd, School Social Worker, and Ms. Katey Santilli, Campus Minister. 

    Topics the group has explored are: the grief process, coping strategies, or sharing with friends. We also always include games and snacks in our meetings. 

    For more information, please reach out to Katey Santilli at ksantilli@lasalle-academy.org.

The Brother James Miller, Service & Justice Program

Rooted in the life and ministry of Brother James Miller, La Salle Academy’s service immersion program offers students the opportunity to live and work alongside people and communities placed on the margins of society. The purpose of this program is to expose students to the great needs of the world and inspire them to be active participants in ushering in the Kingdom of God here on earth.
 
Brother Miller was a Christian educator and apostle of the poor and underprivilidged, a worker for justice and advocate for social change. 
 

Faculty & Staff

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    Francis Hess 

    Campus Minister, Teacher
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    Kathryn Santilli 12

    Campus Minister, Teacher
    401-351-7750 ext. 127
612 Academy Avenue, Providence, RI 02908  Phone: 401-351-7750
La Salle Academy is a high school rich in history and grounded in the person and teachings of Jesus and the Catholic faith, which are core to the school's life and culture. The De La Salle Middle School provides a strong holistic foundation for students to transition into high school. The high school and middle school provide students of diverse ethnic, economic, and religious backgrounds, a community to foster growth in the tradition of St. John Baptist de La Salle’s ideals of faith, service, and community.