2021 St Marys Girls Lacrosse Media Guide

St. Mary’s Lacrosse

2021

Fr. PatrickWoods, C.Ss.R. St. Mary’s Pastor

Father Patrick Woods is a native of Brooklyn, New York, raised in the parish of the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help. After making his first vows as a Redemptorist in 1968, Father Woods attended St. Alphonsus College in Suffield, Connecticut, majoring in philosophy, and received his final four years of seminary training at Mount Saint Alphonsus Seminary in Esopus, New York where he received a Master of Divinity and a Master of Religious Education. Father Woods was ordained as a priest in June 1975 and then, after earning a master’s degree in English at Fordham University, taught for ten years at the same high school seminary he had attended near Erie, Pennsylvania. During his time teaching, Father Woods also earned a Master of Science in Guidance and Counseling from Gannon University. Father Woods previously served as the Director of Formation at Holy Redeemer College in Washington, D.C. and was elected Provincial Vicar of the Baltimore Province, a position he held for twelve years, before serving as Provincial Superior for six years. Father Woods served as pastor at St. Martin of Tours in Bethpage, Long Island for eight years before coming to St. Mary’s.

Mission Statement: The mission of St. Mary’s High School is to foster Catholic moral integrity inour students and toprepare themfor higher educationand the challenges of today’s society. In the spirit of the mission of the Redemptorists and of the School Sisters of Notre Dame, we strive to create an atmosphere for the development of mind, body, and spirit. St. Mary’s seeks to guide each student on the path of service to family, school, parish, community and nation.

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