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Nothing compares to our annual retreat into the Arizona mountains where our students experience joy, freedom, and connection. For 4 days, our ENTIRE school including students, staff, and faculty engage in hours of recreation, teaching, worship, community, and fun-filled traditions to create an unforgettable start to the school year.

“Always remember that teaching is not just about communicating content, but about forming young people. You need to understand and love them, to awaken their innate thirst for truth and their yearning for transcendence. Be for them a source of encouragement and strength.” The content we teach, the sport we coach, and the play we produce are all important; but our mission is aimed at forming students to think well in order that they can live well. Our role—no matter our title—is to remember that our mission applies to each individual student we serve. As Benedict put it, we are to serve as a source of encouragement and strength. To this end, we serve as mentors to our students. We are to mentor. Because mentoring is an effective means of forming students. 

"Inhabiting the Immersive Studio Album" explores American actor and musician Donald Glover's creative vision for the pop studio album as an immersive world with stories and lives inside. As pop studio albums become increasingly experiential and immersive, the piece draws a connection between Glover's vision and J.R.R. Tolkien's academic work on the literary writer as a "sub-creator" of fantasy worlds. The piece argues that Tolkien's theological reflections on fantasy literature, if applied to the medium of pop albums, points both the pop artist and the listener to the fullness of beauty only experienced in The Ultimate Artist's world. 

As you enter Pacifica this year, you are going to have the same kinds of choices in front of you each day: will you seek your own glory, or will you seek God’s glory and rest in His love for you? It’s a simple distinction, but it makes a world of difference.

At our 10th All School Dedication Service, we unveiled the four new House crests that individually represent St. Matthew's, St. Mark's, St. Luke's, and St. John's House. Each House crest was crafted with great intention and took inspiration from the Saint's patronage and ministry. We invite you to dive into the world of The Pacifica House System and how it is further integrated into Pacifica as a whole.

There is a word for a great soul—Magnaminty. This virtue is rarely talked about...Pacifica has taught you to notice that some friendships do more for you than others...The idea here is that there are people walking around who have great souls and others who have small souls. Some who are more substantial and some who are less substantial. Some who are more real, and some who are less real. Some who are in close communion with Christ, and some further away from Christ. Some who experience a sense of purpose that leads to a more joyful life, and some who find themselves lacking direction, and disillusioned.

Valedictorian, Aubrey Callaghan gives a student address to her fellow graduates from the Class of 2024.

Salutatorian, Mary Maruyama gives a student address to her fellow graduates from the Class of 2024.