On bracelets and at opening school Mass, the value of trust underscored to Our Lady of Good Counsel students
As about 1,250 students at Our Lady of Good Counsel High School in Olney, Maryland gathered in the Kane Center for an opening school Mass celebrated by Washington Cardinal Wilton Gregory on Aug. 29, they were united not only by the blue Oxford shirts they wore and their tan slacks or skirts, but also by the handcrafted bracelets on their wrists bearing the word “TRUST.”
Near the ceiling of the gymnasium were banners for championships in many sports, but also five banners reflecting the values emphasized at Xaverian Brothers Sponsored Schools including Good Counsel – simplicity, humility, compassion, zeal and trust.
Greeting the students before the Mass, Izzy Magyar, a senior at Our Lady of Good Counsel, noted that each year, the school chooses one of those values “to be our guiding light in all that we do,” and the value for the 2024-25 school year there is “trust.”