Bishop Canevin would like to thank Chuck and Bethany Gaita for coordinating this weekend's campus beautification service project.  We would also like to recognize the 17 students and 6 adult volunteers who responded to the call and worked to make our front entrance area look great as we prepare to welcome students and faculty back to campus.  BC would also like to thank Alphonso and Son for supporting our efforts by generously donating the mulch!  



 

Check out the feature on our Photography Club's Spring Exhibit at the Carnegie Municipal Building
Post Gazette feature article

Link to Grace Gaita’s Obituary: https://obituaries.post-gazette.com/obituary/grace-isabella-sgroi-gaita-1084534690 Link to Grace Gaita Memorial

Grace Gaita Scholarship: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=Q9PQT7WG22YVJ

Dear Crusader Families:

It is with our deepest sorrow that we inform you of the passing of Grace Gaita. I was notified of Grace's passing late Monday morning by her parents, Chuck and Bethany Gaita. During our conversation, I was expecting to express my condolences while attempting to find words that could provide comfort to a family that has been through the unimaginable. However, it quickly became apparent that the Gaitas were the ones attempting to comfort me as well as all of Grace's teachers and classmates. Chuck and Bethany asked me to convey that all of the prayers directed toward Grace and their family were not heard in vain but served as a source of strength that allowed them to surround Grace with love and to see the light during the darkest of times.

I have no doubt Grace heard each and every prayer. From her parents reading her each student-created get well card to listening closely to each evening's prayer gathering, Grace knew how much she was loved and appreciated by everyone at Bishop Canevin.

Grace loved everything about being a Crusader. Each year I would receive a Christmas card from her family, and there would be Grace representing Canevin in her letterman jacket or Marching Crusaders uniform. She took great pride in being an ambassador for BC and was a rock star when we visited her grade school this fall!

As a student, few have worked as hard as Grace and, before she passed, we had the opportunity to inform her that she met the academic criteria for acceptance into the National Honor Society. Grace's family shared countless examples of acts of everyday kindness from her teachers and classmates. Moving forward, I think a great way to pay tribute and remember Grace is to simply be the school that exists in the light and image in which she saw us!

The only thing that exceeded Grace's dedication to BC was her dedication to her faith. During this most difficult time it became a blessing to get to know Grace on a deeper level. I learned that she regularly participated in a prayer group for an ill priest. She would recite the Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel where I learned from members of the group "that nobody recited that prayer like Grace!" Throughout Lent we will be reciting the St. Michael Prayer each morning as a tribute to Grace.

The same type of faith Grace and the Gaita family possess is the same type of faith we need to rely on as a community as we come together to grieve. Let's be there for one another and, most importantly, for our students and honor Grace's memory with the types of everyday acts that made her so proud to call Bishop Canevin her school.

To support our community, we have invited grief counselors from our partners at Teen Outreach who will be onsite this week along with school counselors graciously provided by other Diocesan high schools. The Hallow Prayer App, which each student has downloaded on their BC iPad, also has resources. User can search "on grief" in the top right corner and will see three talks from Laura Kelly Fanucci, a well-known speaker and writer on grief and spirituality.

Finally, we would like to invite BC families to attend tomorrow’s Liturgy of the Word beginning at 12:30 p.m. to receive ashes and be present as members of our community.

Mr. Joyce
Principal

Congratulations to Senior Mac Johnson on being named the DAR Good Citizen for Bishop Canevin High School by the Daughters of the American Revolution.  Mac was nominated by members of the Bishop Canevin Faculty and along with his family has been invited to an award ceremony on April 9th where he will be presented with a certificate and pin.  Mac, has been accepted into Notre Dame where he plans on continuing his academic career.