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    We hope through the Elevate Middle School Ministry, you will be able to elevate your mind, soul, and heart, St. Thomas More is here to support in every step of your journey! Come be a part of something great!

    Our mission: provide a place for young people to grow in their relationship with Jesus Christ and to discover His plan for your life.
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      Elevating our minds, hearts, and souls is no easy task. But, when we form a community and connect ourselves to Christ- it becomes natural! Elevating the most important parts of ourself means becoming more like Christ who is above. Let's RISE to the challenge and be like Christ in this world! Let's ELEVATE! 

      Every month, we will host a social event to help build relationships, community, and to get to know each other. Then, we will have middle school fellowship nights once a month, to deepen our faith and to grow together. 

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    A Patron saint is a Saint that models the kind of life we are trying to live and that we can ask prayers from to help us on our journey towards Heaven. 

    Elevate has it's very own patron saint and that is.... 

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    BLESSED CHIARA LUCE BADANO

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    • Even at the age of four, Chiara seemed aware of the needs of others. She would sort through her toys to give some to poor children, and she would never give away just the old or broken ones. She invited less-fortunate people into the family’s home for holidays and visited the elderly at a retirement center. When other children were sick and confined to bed, Chiara visited them. She loved the stories of the Gospel and loved to attend Mass.

      Chiara was very popular. She had a lot of friends, she played sports, and she loved to sing and dance. But when asked, she said she did not try to bring Jesus to her friends with words. She tried to bring Jesus to them with her example and how she lived her life.

      When she was 17, Chiara learned she had a very serious form of bone cancer. Treatments were painful and unsuccessful. She became paralyzed. One day someone asked her if she hoped to walk again, and her answer was no. When she suffered, she felt closer to Jesus. She even refused to take pain medication that would make her too sleepy to continue to live her life.

      She inspired everyone who she encountered with her faith and love for others. She gave all her savings to a friend who was becoming a missionary in Africa. When her life was nearly at an end, she said, “I have nothing left, but I still have my heart, and with that I can always love.”


      Blessed Chiara Luce, pray for us!

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