Canongate Catholic High School

O Antiphons: Lessons and Carols with Canongate Schola
2024-12-15 09:30 - 10:45 UTC | Canongate Catholic High School, 109 Crescent Hill Rd., Arden, NC, 28704
The Canongate Schola students will present O Antiphons: Lessons and Carols, an original creation of director Jennifer Murrey. Based on the O Antiphons (also known as the Great Advent Antiphons or Great Os) which are taken from vespers of the week leading up to Christmas, this is an interactive program of music, scripture and poetry for the Advent season. Please join them for this lovely presentation between the morning Masses at St. Barnabas Catholic Church, December 15, at 9:30AM. This will be a beautiful event for the whole family to pause, reflect, and enter more fully into the Advent season in anticipation of Our Savior’s birth.

St. Margaret of Scotland Feast Celebration
2024-11-15 12:00 - 15:00 | The Oaks at Daniel Ridge, 818 Monte Vista Road, Candler, North Carolina, 28715
To celebrate Canongate’s patron saint, Saint Margaret of Scotland, we will be hosting a Feast Celebration with the students, faculty, alumni and parents.

On Friday, November 15, Schola will be singing the Mass at The Basilica of St. Lawrence at 12:10 PM.

After Mass, we will travel over to the The Oaks at Daniel Ridge in Candler. Be prepared to feast on a traditional Scottish meal, toast your classmates, and sing!

We will return to campus in time for normal dismissal.

RSVP for a total headcount will be required. Check back for more details.

Canongate Schola sings at weekday mass
2024-10-03 09:00 - 10:00 | Canongate Catholic High School, 109 Crescent Hill Rd., Arden, NC, 28704
Please join Canongate students as they sing during the 9:00 AM weekday mass at St. Barnabas Church.

Kingfisher Folk Festival
2024-08-04 14:00 - 20:00 | The Oaks at Daniel Ridge, 818 Monte Vista Road, Candler, North Carolina, 28715
Tickets are on sale now! Join us for Canongate’s first annual Kingfisher Folk Festival with headliner, The Hillbilly Thomists! Other performances by Strangers and Pilgrims, Childcraft Annual and other bands and storytellers! The event is family-friendly. Folk music, food, drinks, games, and more. Get your presale tickets now and receive 10% off with code FIRE at kingfisherfest.rsvpify.com.

Class of 2024 Baccalaureate Mass, Graduation and Reception
2024-06-08 10:00 - 13:00 | Canongate Catholic High School, 109 Crescent Hill Rd., Arden, NC, 28704
Join us for our 2024 Baccalaureate Mass and graduation ceremony as we celebrate the achievements of our senior students! Fr. Dwight Longenecker from Our Lady of the Rosary in Greenville, SC will be our commencement speaker. A luncheon reception in the pavilion will follow.

End of Semester Exams
2024-06-05 08:00 - 2024-06-07 15:00, 2023-12-19 08:00 - 15:00 | Canongate Catholic High School, 109 Crescent Hill Rd., Arden, NC, 28704
Good luck to all of our students on their end of semester exams. You’ve all worked so hard this semester and we are rooting for you!

Memorial Day: No School
2024-05-27 08:00 - 15:00 | Canongate Catholic High School, 109 Crescent Hill Rd., Arden, NC, 28704

Technology and Tradition. How (Not) to be Human in the Age of Silicon Valley with Colin Miller, Ph.D
2024-04-27 15:00 - 16:30 | Grace Mills River Church, 495 Cardinal Road, Mills River, North Carolina
Every tool we use also uses us. Our tools make us into a certain type of person—they shape our habits & desires. (Think about it: would you be able to tolerate the slow, arduous journey across the country on horseback of yesteryear when you could today be whisked coast-to-coast in a 737 in four and a half hours?) After having tasted a certain way of doing something, our palate makes it hard to want anything else.

If what it means to be Christian is to cultivate a certain set of habits—to become a certain type of person whose life is ordered by holiness—then the Christian must always be watchful of the practices and patterns he is engaged in, lest he fail attain to the full stature of Christ—lest he not become the full human he is called to be through his baptism.

Technology is often considered merely a neutral tool. Colin Miller will contend that no tool is ever merely neutral. And since it is not neutral, Christians must respond to technology, and the culture it produces, with vigilant awareness of its power to shape us, and a clear sense of how to order it for good rather than allowing it to dis-order us.

Join Canongate’s Great Conversation series for an afternoon discussion about the implications of technology for our sanctification. The discussion should prove to be as practical as it will be theoretical, with something for everyone to glean, regardless of their station in life.

The event is free and kids are welcome. Refreshments will be provided. RSVP’s are encouraged.

CLT10 Exam for 9th and 10th Graders
2024-04-16 00:00 - 23:59 | Canongate Catholic High School, 109 Crescent Hill Rd., Arden, NC, 28704
The Classical Learning test 10 (CLT10) will be offered for 9th and 10th graders who are preparing for this exam.
The CLT exists to reconnect knowledge and virtue by providing meaningful assessments and connections to seekers of truth, goodness, and beauty.
CLT offers the only standardized tests that complement a liberal arts education, are 100{e3fc0e52215daf1ccf00d0007050fbfc613d30487630e082e2ca8d8e3fe70097} online, and provide a comprehensive measure of achievement and aptitude.
The CLT is a college entrance exam that can be taken online, lasts only 2 hours, and provides a better test experience than the SAT®. CLT scores are published within 2 weeks of taking the test and can be sent to an unlimited amount of colleges. Plus, over 200 colleges provide scholarships tied directly to your CLT score.

Easter Break
2024-03-28 12:00 - 2024-04-07 12:00 | Canongate Catholic High School, 109 Crescent Hill Rd., Arden, NC, 28704
Canongate will be closed March 28 – April 7th in observation of the Easter holiday. We pray for a blessed time for your family and loved ones!

Canongate Catholic High School's Lantern Bearer Theatre presents: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
2024-03-24 15:00 - 17:00, 2024-03-22 19:00 - 21:00 | Fairview Christian Fellowship, 596 Old US Highway, Fairview, North Carolina, 28730
Tickets on sale now! bit.ly/littlewomen2024

It is time to buy your tickets to Canongate Catholic High School’s 11th annual spring play!

This year our family-friendly play is Little Women. The performances will take place at Fairview Christian Fellowship on March 22, 23, and 24 Come enjoy this classic story with your family and friends. Order your tickets now to secure your preferred day and time.

Canongate Catholic High School's Lantern Bearer Theatre presents: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
2024-03-23 19:00 - 21:00 | Fairview Christian Fellowship, 596 Old US Highway, Fairview, North Carolina, 28730
Tickets on sale now! bit.ly/littlewomen2024

It is time to buy your tickets to Canongate Catholic High School’s 11th annual spring play!!!

This year our family-friendly play is Little Women. The performances will take place at Fairview Christian Fellowship on March 22, 23, and 24 Come enjoy this classic story with your family and friends. Order your tickets now to secure your preferred day and time.

Catherine Term Begins
2024-03-18 08:00 - 15:00 | Canongate Catholic High School, 109 Crescent Hill Rd., Arden, NC, 28704

Immersion Day: Horseback Riding
2024-03-06 08:00 - 15:00 | Canongate Catholic High School, 109 Crescent Hill Rd., Arden, NC, 28704

Immersion Day: Weaverville Police Department
2024-02-07 08:00 - 15:00 | Canongate Catholic High School, 109 Crescent Hill Rd., Arden, NC, 28704

Catholic Schools Week Social
2024-02-02 09:00 - 10:45 | Canongate Catholic High School, 109 Crescent Hill Rd., Arden, NC, 28704
Join Canongate students at 9 AM for Mass at St. Barnabas, followed by an appreciation social with light refreshments in the social hall.

Catholic Schools Week
2024-01-28 12:00 - 2024-02-03 12:00 | Canongate Catholic High School, 109 Crescent Hill Rd., Arden, NC, 28704
Join us in celebrating Catholic School’s Week!

MLK Day: No School
2024-01-15 08:00 - 15:00 | Canongate Catholic High School, 109 Crescent Hill Rd., Arden, NC, 28704

Aquinas Term Begins
2024-01-03 08:00 - 15:00 | Canongate Catholic High School, 109 Crescent Hill Rd., Arden, NC, 28704

Christmas Break
2023-12-20 12:00 - 2024-01-02 12:00 | Canongate Catholic High School, 109 Crescent Hill Rd., Arden, NC, 28704
Canongate will be closed December 20th – January 2nd in observation of the Christmas holiday. We pray for a blessed time for your family and loved ones!

O Antiphons: Lessons and Carols Concert with Canongate Schola
2023-12-10 10:00 - 10:45 | Canongate Catholic High School, 109 Crescent Hill Rd., Arden, NC, 28704
Join us for a beautiful Advent concert presented by the incredible Canongate Schola. The students will present O Antiphons: Lessons and Carols, an original creation of director Jennifer Murrey. Based on the O Antiphons (also known as the Great Advent Antiphons or Great Os) which are taken from vespers of the week leading up to Christmas, this is an interactive program of music, scripture and poetry for the Advent season. Please join them for this lovely presentation between the morning Masses at St. Barnabas Catholic Church, December 10, at 10:00AM. This will be a beautiful event for the whole family to pause, reflect, and enter more fully into the Advent season in anticipation of Our Savior’s birth.

Immersion Day: Habitat for Humanity House Construction / Service Project
2023-12-06 08:00 - 15:00 | Canongate Catholic High School, 109 Crescent Hill Rd., Arden, NC, 28704

Thanksgiving Week - School Closed November 22-24
2023-11-22 12:00 - 2023-11-24 12:00 | Canongate Catholic High School, 109 Crescent Hill Rd., Arden, NC, 28704
Canongate will be closed November 22-24 in observation of the Thanksgiving holiday, so there will be no immersion day this week. We pray for a blessed time for your family and loved ones.

St. Margaret of Scotland Feast Celebration
2023-11-16 08:00 - 15:00 | The Oaks at Daniel Ridge, 818 Monte Vista Road, Candler, North Carolina, 28715
To celebrate Canongate’s patron saint, Saint Margaret of Scotland, we will be hosting a Feast Celebration with the students on November 16th.

On Thursday, November 16, we will convene on campus by 8:45 in time for the 9 AM Mass (no 8 AM classes that day). Schola will be singing the Mass. Normal Canongate clothing attire applies.

After Mass, we will travel over to the Stillpoint Contemplative Ministries Event Hall in Candler. Be prepared to feast on a traditional Scottish meal, toast your classmates, and sing! Our freshmen will also be reciting poetry. If sophomores or upper classmen have a poem you would like to recite, a story to tell, or another gift of word or music to offer, please do so.

We will return to campus in time for normal dismissal. Upper classmen student drivers may drive themselves and their siblings to Stillpoint and dismiss from there after the event. The address to put in your phones is: 818 Monte Vista Rd, Candler, NC 28715.

Immersion Day: Bike Course & Climbing Wall - The Riveter
2023-11-01 08:00 - 15:00 | Canongate Catholic High School, 109 Crescent Hill Rd., Arden, NC, 28704

Damascus Term Begins
2023-10-30 08:00 - 15:00 | Canongate Catholic High School, 109 Crescent Hill Rd., Arden, NC, 28704

PSAT Testing: 9-11th Grades
2023-10-18 00:00 - 23:59 | Canongate Catholic High School, 109 Crescent Hill Rd., Arden, NC, 28704

Fall Student Retreat - Charleston, SC
2023-10-06 08:00 - 2023-10-08 17:00 | Canongate Catholic High School, 109 Crescent Hill Rd., Arden, NC, 28704
The Fall Student Retreat will take place in Charleston, SC this year.

On Friday October 6th – Sunday October 8th, Canongate will be traveling down to historic, and hopefully very sunny, Charleston, South Carolina. We will begin our time together at the oldest Catholic parish in the city, St. Mary of the Annunciation, and finish with Sunday Mass at the very grand Cathedral of St. John the Baptist. Below is a schedule of what to expect during our three days together:

Friday, October 6

7:00 am Depart Canongate

12:00 noon Arrive in Charleston / Lunch

2:00 pm Kick-off with retreat missionary Molly Pereda at St. Mary’s

3:45 pm The Citadel College Parade of Troops

5:30 pm Check-in & Dinner

7:00 pm City Market Shopping / Ice Cream / Charleston Night Walk

9:30 pm Return to Lodging

Saturday, October 7

7:30 am Morning Prayer & Breakfast at Lodging

9:00 am Historic Fort Sumter Tour (includes 30 minute Ferry)

12:00 noon Lunch

2:00 pm Isle of Palm Beach

6:00 pm Dinner / Lectio Divina / Movie

Sunday, October 8

8:30 am Breakfast at Lodging / Pack Vans

11:15 am Solemn Mass at Cathedral

1:00 pm Depart and Lunch

6:30 pm Arrive back at Canongate for pick-up

Our goal has been to arrange a packed, meaningful trip at an affordable price. Thankfully, a Charlestonian with a unique, newly renovated property was happy to work with us to provide affordable lodging for our whole group. This conveniently-located inn, available through Airbnb, is divided into two sections, one for the guys and one for the gals, and each section, able to sleep up to 16 people in multiple bedrooms, has a separate entrance. This was a great discovery, and I think it will suit our retreat purpose really well.

So, the trip this year cost $120.00 per student. [That’s $85.00 for lodging for two nights, $25.00 for visiting Fort Sumter, and a $10.00 transportation fee.] Please make your payment to the office, either to Mr. Allen or to Mrs. Hungerford.

Additionally, students will need to bring money for 5 meals. [That’s 3 lunches and 2 dinners.] Please note that students will also have the opportunity to shop at Charleston’s famous City Market for souvenirs and ice cream. On Sunday, we will be returning in time for students to eat dinner with their families.
