Villa Spiritus is a shared-responsibility Catholic high school in east-central Alberta. Our high school math, science, and religion program is delivered through one day of in-person instruction and one day of remote-learning at home each week. Other subjects are delivered by the parent in home education.

Villa Spiritus is an apostolate of the parish of St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church and the St. Benedict’s Ordinariate Community in Edmonton with a mission to support parents in the education of their children. The wholesome environment allows each child to mature academically and in virtue with gentle and charitable guidance. Studies are meant to emphasise and nurture the intellectual, historical, artistic and spiritual gifts of the faith. The ultimate goal is for students to discover the influence and beauty of Catholicism in every aspect of culture and their own lives, growing in holiness and drawing ever closer to God the Holy Trinity.

The Gilbertine Institute recognizes that:

• parents have an important part to play in the educating community 

• parents have a primary and natural responsibility for their children’s education 

• parents cannot delegate this unique role

• it is necessary to foster initiatives which encourage commitment, but

• at the same time the right sort of concrete support 

  • which the family needs and 

  • which involve it in all areas of the child’s education

• the constant aim should be contact and dialogue with the pupils’ families, 

• which should also be encouraged through the promotion of parents’ associations, 

  • in order to clarify with their indispensable collaboration that personalised approach which is needed for the Institute’s programs to be efficacious.

Taken from paragraph twenty of St. John Paul’s The Catholic School on the Threshold of theThird Millennium .