A Note from Blaise Hockel, Headmaster
We’ve known from the beginning that, to build the Catholic high school that Northern Colorado has been dreaming of, we needed to include a chapel. We want a chapel to center our campus because it’s the summit of everything that we’re trying to achieve, embodied in a haven against the hardship outside.
We’ve seen this since we have been at Our Lady of the Valley Parish—students sitting to pray the rosary because they want to, students engaging with the liturgy every day because that gives them every chance to meet the person of Christ.
Spending time in the chapel dedicated to prayer is the most important thing we do because it gives the student a chance to connect what they’re learning in the classrooms to the most incredible thing that they will ever learn: that Christ has made them so that He might love them and receive their love, too.
The chapel makes their faith a relief—a time and place to bring themselves to the foot of the Cross, both in their joy and in their struggles—so that no matter what happens during the day, they have a chance to find solace in Christ.
We want future generations of students to have a chance to immerse themselves in the peace of Christ, in a place that will show them simply by walking in that they have come to a special place, a sacred space. We want them to know that they have come to the place that reveals the reason for everything that we do in the classrooms. We want them to have a place where they can always encounter Christ.
