St. Mary's Girls Lacrosse 2020

St. Mary’s Lacrosse 2020

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

Fred Haller St. Mary’s School President

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

Being a member of St. Mary’s invites our students into a wonderful mix of faith, scholarship, and community. For many students our athletics programs are an essential part of that community, and their participation helps to form them as men and women of faith-filled character. As educators, coaches, and parents,

we believe in our students and know that St. Mary’s can help them strive to accomplish far more than they thought possible. This is what we describe when we call ourselves the Saints, and I am inspired by the ways our entire community embraces this identity. For all these reasons I am proud to cheer: Go Saints!

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. Athletic Mission Statement: Consistent with St.Mary’sHigh School as awhole, theAthleticDepartment is committed to the quest for excellence; to the personal formation of our students in their development as whole persons – spiritually, intellectually, physically, and socially, through a commitment to teamwork and the development of a strong sense of community. All of this is done within a firm foundation of time-honored Catholic values.

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