Vision

We seek to build a community that is guided by Franciscan values based on the gospel and which will foster and sustain a culture of excellence as a way of life.

Mission Statement

St. Joseph's Teachers' College is committed to fostering excellence in teaching, learning, scholarship and relationship.

 

We strive to empower and affirm our staff and students by providing an environment that encourages and allows for personal and professional development.

 

We pledge to build partnerships that value humility, joy and integrity which are characteristics of our founders, the Franciscan Sisters of Allegany.

Core Values

The realization of our mission requires that we form men and women who have recognized and responded to the call to the teaching profession and share the following values:

* A relationship with God
* Reverence for the natural and built environment
* A sense of community
* Professionalism and commitment
* Respect for the individual
* Passion for excellence
* Service and accountability

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Franciscan Sisters of Allegany
The Franciscan Sisters of Allegany – or “Brown Franciscans” – are a group of dedicated religious women in the Roman Catholic Church in Jamaica. We are FRANCISCANS because we belong the Franciscan Order which is an international group founded by St. Francis of Assisi and because we strive to live the Gospel according to the ideals of St. Francis. We are SISTERS OF ALLEGANY because we trace our group’s beginnings to a little town in New York State called Allegany. We profess the evangelical vows of poverty, celibacy and obedience.

To summarize: We are an American- founder Congregation, rooted in the tradition of St. Francis of Assisi.  We are shaped by the courage and missionary spirit of our early founders. We are called by God to witness to the Good News of the Gospel by our contemplative attitude of prayer, our simple life-style, our familiar spirit of community, and our dedicated and humble service to the people of God whom we serve. Humility, simplicity, joy, hospitality and light-heartedness characterize us as a group. You will find us rendering humble service in Montego Bay – two schools and clinic – St. Mary – one school – Kingston and St. Andrew – six schools and one Teachers College.

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College Theme Song (Prayer of St. Francis)
St. Francis of Assisi realized that PEACE is a gift of God our Creator.  Throughout his life he made every effort to promote reconciliation and harmony among all peoples.  Although he himself is not the author, the following Peace Prayer is attributed to his inspiration.  There are a variety of arrangements of these words for singing of praying.  The following version has been adapted for the College Theme Song.
 

Make me a channel of your peace
Make me a channel of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me bring your love;
Where there is injury, your pardon Lord.
And where there is doubt true faith in you.

Make me a channel of your peace,
Where here is despair in life let me bring hope;
Where there is darkness – only light,
And where there’s sadness ever joy.

O Master grant that I may never seek
So much to be consoled as to console;
To be understood as to understand,
To be loved as to love with all my soul.

Make me a channel of your peace,
It is in pardoning that we are pardon,
In giving to all men that we receive,
And in dying that we are born to eternal life

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16 Old Hope Road, Kgn. 5, Jamaica, West Indies.
Tel: (876) 926-6659, 968-7171