From teaching the class to playing fun activities, sophomores Patrick Corbett and Daniel Campos aim for their club, Catholic Students Association, to gain more members by spreading the “word of God” throughout the school. They host biweekly meetings on Thursdays, in room 2215. Information about this club can be found on the PHS CSA Instagram.
Corbett, the club’s co-founder and director of operations, said he hopes for the Catholic Students Association to become a space for Catholic students to come together.
“My goal, and I share this with our other co-founder and CEO, Daniel, is to provide a space for the Catholic students in our school to come together and unite over their similarities,” Corbett said. “This club did exist before we started it. We really just rekindled it, but it was inactive. We restarted it, and we’re really glad we did.”
Freshman Nicholas Thorson helped create the social media for the Catholic Students Association.
“I first heard about this club when Daniel and Patrick told me about it, and I joined because I’m Catholic,” Thorson said. “Our meetings are in room 2215 from 4:20 to 5 p.m.”
In meetings, Corbett and students lead in prayer and start presentations. Corbett said he is optimistic and believes the club has potential.
“We typically first open and close in prayer. Today we’re doing some presentations. Some of our club members recently received the Sacrament of Confirmation, which is a big deal, so they will be talking a little bit about that,” Corbett said. “We really haven’t had a lot of meetings. This is only our second or third in earnest. So, in terms of what we’re going to be regularly doing, that still remains to be decided, but there’s definitely a large potential with a large community.”
Campos said he wants to spread the word of God throughout the school.
“My goal is to spread the word of Jesus, the word of God, throughout our school and especially within our Catholic population,” Campos said. “Here, I think a lot of people are Catholic, but they don’t have anything to get involved in. Our goal is to see it grow and for it to get big.”
Senior Olivia Camilleri hopes to strengthen her faith within the club along with connecting with her peers.
“We will usually usually open our meetings in prayer. We’ll go over our topic for the day, watch like a video, and we’ll do some trivia questions over it.” Camilleri said. “Then once we’re done discussing all of those topics, we usually end with a game.”
Corbett said he sees the value in advertising so more students can know about the club and join.
“Everything’s been going good so far,” Corbett said. “I would say our only challenges have been making sure stuff gets done, because obviously we have a lot of advertising we’d like to do. I think for a lot of people, especially the Catholic students in our school, I think the biggest barrier to them joining is the knowledge of the club. If we can get ourselves out there and get all the students familiar with us, I think our membership will skyrocket after that.”
Social Media Officer and sophomore Ava Lundy said she wants to deepen her relationship with Jesus.
“I first heard about the club when Daniel came up to me at church and gave me a flyer for it, and I decided to join because I want to strengthen and grow my relationship with Jesus and the Lord.” Lundy said. “I want to help others do the same thing. During meetings, we usually open in prayer, and then we’ll watch a video, and then we will review and talk about what the topic means to us.”
Campos said he wants to get the club involved during communion as they keep growing and spreading awareness at Prosper High School.
“We have a lot of members from Saint Martin de Porres church here in Prosper, so we’re trying to get a rosary before mass with all of our club members.” Campos said. “We’re trying to have them bring up the gifts during communion, just for the church to see us as a group, so we can spread awareness of what we’re doing here at Prosper High School.”