Well, there are only few months to go before the new Catholic school at Saint Andrew parish in Saline opens its doors to its first students on August 23, the Feast of Saint Rose of Lima, and things are starting to really blossom. Deo gratias.

“It is like a flower blooming,” says Janet Cook, Director of Faith Formation and Director of Preschool at Saint Andrew, “as it comes up it’s just becoming so beautiful and that everything is falling into place, and teachers are coming, and there’s so much support from the parish, that clearly is not something that we can do ourselves. It clearly comes from the Holy Spirit and who He’s putting in place.”

Saint Andrew’s is the first new parish school in the Diocese of Lansing for 20 years. Situated in Washtenaw County, it will serve an area of the diocese that does not currently have many options for Catholic education. It’s all part of the Diocese of Lansing’s desire to make a Catholic education more available to more families.

Saint Andrew School will open in the Fall with pre-kindergarten to sixth grade classrooms. The school is then planning to add preschool, seventh and eighth grade classrooms over the next few years. Watch this short film to find out how the parish’s prayerful planning is progressing.

* For more information about St. Andrew Catholic School, contact Michelle Sontag at michelles@standrewsaline.org

* This week is Discover Catholic Schools Week, and enrollment for next year is open at many of our 35 Catholic schools across the Diocese of Lansing. Interested to learn more about Catholic education? Visit www.dolcatholicschools.org.