5 things to look forward to at Frassati Catholic in 2016

Here are 5 things we're looking forward to at Frassati Catholic in 2016:

5. Full-contact football and new varsity sports

In the fall of 2016, for the first time, Frassati Catholic plans to have a junior varsity 11-man, full-contact football team with freshman and sophomores. The team will have access to the new locker rooms and weight room in the gymnasium/fine arts building. The Athletic Program will also expand, adding baseball for the first time in the spring of 2016 and competing in most sports at a varsity district level in TAPPS as a 3A school.

4. A new freshman class!

With the addition of a new freshman class in the fall of 2016, Frassati Catholic will be a full 9-12 campus for the first time.

3. Junior Ring Mass

At a special ceremony and Mass in March, juniors will receive their class rings – another first for Frassati Catholic students!

2. Completion of the gymnasium/fine arts building

The new gymnasium/fine arts building is set to be complete in early 2016. The 54,000-square-foot building will feature a 17,000-square-foot gymnasium with two volleyball/basketball courts where games or practices can be held simultaneously. The space also can be converted into a competition gym with seating for up to 1,000 fans. The facility will feature an assembly hall that will seat 400 and be used for fine arts performances and student assemblies, and fine arts space that will be dedicated to the performing arts and the visual arts. Locker rooms, training and weight rooms, a team meeting room, coaches’ offices, and a concession stand will also be included.

1. Pilgrimage to World Youth Day

A group of Frassati Catholic students will be heading to World Youth Day in Poland in July of 2016, where it is possible that the incorrupt relics of Blessed Pier Giorgio will be present (according to FrassatiUSA). Students will visit the Jasna Gora monastery in Poland, tour Krakow in the footsteps of St. John Paul II, and visit Auschwitz and Wadowice over the course of their 12-day pilgrimage.

From the Message of His Holiness Pope Francis for the Thirty-first World Youth Day 2016: "I think of the example of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati. He said, “Jesus pays me a visit every morning in Holy Communion, and I return the visit in the meagre way I know how, visiting the poor”. Pier Giorgio was a young man who understood what it means to have a merciful heart that responds to those most in need. He gave them far more than material goods. He gave himself by giving his time, his words and his capacity to listen. He served the poor very quietly and unassumingly. He truly did what the Gospel tells us: “When you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right is doing, so that your almsgiving may be secret” ( Mt 6:3-4). Imagine that, on the day before his death when he was gravely ill, he was giving directions on how his friends in need should be helped. At his funeral, his family and friends were stunned by the presence of so many poor people unknown to them. They had been befriended and helped by the young Pier Giorgio." About Frassati Catholic High School: Founded in 2013, Frassati Catholic High School serves the families and parishes in the north Houston area of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston. Administered by the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia Congregation from Nashville, TN, Frassati Catholic High School prepares students to walk on the path of true happiness through a robust college-preparatory curriculum rooted in the Catholic faith. The school currently serves freshman through junior students, and will be a full 9th-12th grade campus in 2016-17. For more information about Frassati Catholic High School, contact Kyle Smith, director of communications, at 832-616-3227.