Loaves and Fishes: a shared commitment to service in action

Thank you to the many students, families, faculty, and staff who participated in this year’s Loaves and Fishes. For more than 40 years, this tradition has brought the Stuart community together to serve meals and extend hospitality to neighbors experiencing food insecurity.

In the days leading up to the service, Stuart students took an active role in preparing for the weekend. Middle School students packed hundreds of bagged lunches with personal notes, while Upper School students assembled amenity bags to be distributed at the cathedral. On Saturday, families, faculty, and staff joined together to serve the meal and support guests with care and respect. Each step of the process reflected a shared commitment to dignity, presence, and human connection.

This all-community effort is a meaningful expression of Sacred Heart Goal 3 and reinforces a core belief at Stuart that service is not a single event, but a way of life. As Robert Missonis, Assistant Head of School and Head of Middle School, reflects in a blog from last year, service experiences like Loaves and Fishes help students understand their responsibility to others and the role they can play in building a more just and compassionate world.

We are deeply grateful for the generosity of our families and for the continued partnership with Loaves and Fishes. As Janet Erskine Stuart reminds us, we are called “to render all possible service to others, not talking of the thing, but doing it.”