GSCS Family: Then And Now

By Marie Gabrielle Bernabe

Every year we grow and learn together, now let’s take a closer look in our gscs family.

            They say that the school and its’ community is another place to grow and another family to love. We spend so much time in school everyday and that is how we grow attached to something—something familiar and welcoming like a true family.

            Our family has grown and prospered from being the small pre-school, Good Shepherd Parish Academy (GSPA) to be the school we all know today as Good Shepherd Cathedral School.

            The GSCS family began when Msgr. Fidelis Lincaco founded GSPA then, upon his retirement, handed over his directorship to Msgr. Jesus-Romulo C. Rañada who then lead the school to gain government recognition for its high school department and with its’ continuous progress, GSPA was later renamed as GSCS after the parish accelerated to Cathedral by the Diocese of Novaliches.

            During those early years, the GSCS community only moved within one building where where the ECE and primary levels are currentlylocated. Now, there’s the H.E.A.R.T. building and the newly added facilities to meet the needs of the growing number of students. At present, our school is headed by our school director Rev. Fr. Albert N. Delvo, our principal, Dr. Carina G. Dacanay and our finance officer Mrs. Jennifer P. Datungan.

NOBILITAS

 EXCELLENTIA

 MINISTERII

          The three Latin words that serve as our three core values and that also echo in our minds and hearts when we walk in our alma mater’s halls. These three words are what the Good Shepherd Cathedral School’s community adheres to for the past 18 years of the school’s existence: Nobility of Character, Academic Excellence and Compassionate Service. A generous evidence of this is when we reminisce on the times when we unite to help out with the victims of calamities, pray together and   take part in school events. Our progress helps us gain the PAASCU accreditation and other certifications.

            Guided by God and the three core values of the school, the GSCS family continues to gather fruitful and life-giving years and continue to welcome every new academic year with open hearts and minds. United in all that we do, the telling of the history of GSCS wouldn’t be complete without the happy  memories of school events where the students enjoy in the campus by bring themselves at school fairs, monthly programs lined up or school field trips.

            The school’s community has the same likeness to a small society that is only a fraction of the grandeur of reality outside school walls. In every society, there will always be a scene wherein somebody’s function is another person’s benefit. It means that we should be there when someone needs us, and in unity, do we show it. We all need each other as this community’s inhabitants: teachers need students to teach and students need teachers to guide them to learn better.  We gain each other’s trust as time goes by when we bond and make memories together.

            Each year, GSCS welcomes the new people who come in and put their trust in the school. We can’t say that everyone there is as agreeable as others and that we always get along, but seeing the development of the school, it is clear that not everything that meets the eye is what it seems.

            This is how we are a family: we are united under one Good Shepherd and we strive to fulfill the mission that we were given. That mission is to spread the Good News to all.

NOBILITAS

EXCELLENTIA

MINISTERII

            The three core values that the school holds on to and that can describe our GSCS family that can be seen in both in actions and in words.