Caritas Award News

Caritas Award Ceremony Tickets

Tickets for the Caritas Award Ceremony have now been sent to schools for distribution to award recipients, family and staff.  Tickets ordered by parishes and others have also been maled out.  Requests for few remaining tickets should be made direct...

Caritas Award Ceremony Sunday 2nd June 2013

Planning is well underway for the Caritas Award Ceremony which will take place on Sunday 2nd June (2pm to 5pm) in the Clyde Auditorium Glasgow.  This joyful event will celebrate the achievements of over 900 young people who have demonstrated that Ca...

Caritas Award Results

The results for this year's Caritas Awards have now been processed and began to arrive in schools on Thursday 2nd May 2013, with almost all school receiving notice of results by Friday 3rd May.  A few remaining results will be processed early during...

Caritas Award Update 15th April 2013

Final Evidence Submissions Sincere thanks to school and parish co-ordinators for all their efforts to send in final evidence submissions for this year’s Caritas Award.  Since 2nd April we have been processing over 900 submissions. On Tuesday 9th A...

Glasgow Caritas Gathering Point

On Monday 25th March Archbishop Philip Tartaglia gathered together Caritas Award students from all secondary schools in the Archdiocese of Glasgow.  150 young people met at the start of Holy Week to reflect on their Caritas Award journey and to beg...

CARITAS AWARD UPDATE 19th March 2013

Caritas Award Assessment We send best wishes to all the Caritas Award students and teachers in schools across the country who are presently gathering together evidence for Caritas Award submissions to be received at SCES by 2nd April. We look forwar...

The Legacy of Pope Benedict XVI for Education

These are extraordinary days for the Catholic Church, for the faithful and for the world.  "Historic" is an overused word, mostly misused to describe contemporary events.  These days provide an invaluable and grace-filled opportunity to learn from...

An Examination of Conscience

The S6 Caritas Award students in St Aidan's High School in Wishaw were recently involved, with their Head Teacher and school Chaplain, in preparing some materials to help pupils to prepare for participating in the Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confes...

Caritas Award 2013: Preparing for Assessment

For those S6 students enrolled for the Caritas Award this session, attention is beginning to turn towards gathering all the evidence which they need to demonstrate that they have met the success criteria which will enable them to be presented with th...

Meeting of Caritas Award Co-ordinators - 24th January 2013

There will be a meeting of School Caritas Award Co-ordinators in the Conforti Institute, Coatbridge at 1pm on Thursday 24th January 2013 (Lunch available at 12.30pm.)  Agenda items include: 2012-13 update, assessment, parish engagement, awards cerem...