The following components make up the spiritual formation program: religious instruction, the sacraments, and spiritual direction. These three components help each student to grow in his Faith by helping him develop a stable life of piety, a big help in facing the changes that adolescence brings.  All these are taken cared of the Office of the School Chaplain. The program Christianizes the human formation that each student receives. A student does not get all he could from Southridge if he does not take advantage of all the components of spiritual formation offered him in school. Without spiritual formation, the education received in Southridge is not what the founding parents wanted it to be.

The Sacraments

Being in the state of grace or at least struggling to be in it is important to Christian education to make sense. Hence, the means to grow in the state of grace or to recover it are made available through the weekly confession and the daily Mass. The rite of Confirmation is held yearly for Grade 9 High School students and older students who have not received it yet.

Confession

Each level has a scheduled confession day every week during one of their Religion classes. Each class goes to the chapel accompanied by their Religion teacher. The students who will go to confession are seated in pews nearest the confessional while the others sit down in silence doing mental prayer. On designated occasions, the whole class recites the Holy Rosary or prays The Way of the Cross.

Daily Holy Mass

Spiritual Direction

Spiritual Direction is that regular, friendly conversation with the priest which is extra-sacramental and extra-academic in character. It helps a student acquire a real Christian formation and grow in spiritual maturity. Through spiritual direction, a person gets to know himself better, his weaknesses, defects as well as his own good points and special qualities. Without true self-knowledge, a person cannot struggle. And without struggle, there is no sanctity.

The First Friday Vigil

The First Friday Vigil is a fifteen minute period for personal and intimate conversation with Jesus.   Grade levels take turns accompanying the Blessed Sacrament in the monstrance that remains on the altar from the time of the exposition until the Benediction just before the Mass.

The Meditation

The meditation is a personal conversation with God directed by a priest who does his own prayer aloud and aided by specific considerations from the gospel.