Each morning in Catholic schools across the Diocese of Trenton, some 13,000 students begin their day in prayer, centering themselves in Christ and asking God’s blessings on their efforts to learn and grow.
That focus on their faith sustains them throughout the day, as they move from classes to activities and responsibilities to recreation. In daily prayer, regular Masses, social outreach programs and faith formation classes they learn that they are children of a loving God, and that they are called to love one another.
The good news about Catholic schools in the Diocese of Trenton is that they continue to be unique places, where faith, academic excellence, athletics, service and community combine to provide a robust and enriched educational experience like no other.
For more than 400 years, Catholic schools in the United States have produced accomplished students whose lives are rooted in the Gospel of Christ. Many of these students have become leaders in their fields, transforming their local and global communities through Christian discipleship.
The mission of Catholic education is based on the Gospel command of Jesus to “Go and teach.”
With a mission carried out faithfully in the early American Church by thousands of religious sisters, Catholic schools embraced the poor and disenfranchised, many of whom were immigrants.
Today, in the Diocese of Trenton, Catholic schools in Burlington, Mercer, Monmouth and Ocean counties welcome a diverse body of students from many different cultural backgrounds, working in partnership with parents to develop their children’s potential to become life-long learners.
