​​​​​​​​"The experience of Christian community leads naturally to service" (To Teach as Jesus Did: A Pastoral Message on Catholic Education, 28).

Through the Christian service program, students at all class levels give service beyond the school setting in ways that further their faith, engender hope, and witness love. Christian service programs should foster an understanding of the essential connection between the Eucharist and Christian service.

Catholic educators work to form young people who will lead happy and meaningful Christian lives of faith and service. Catholic schools provide students with the tools—intellectual growth, doctrine, piety, ​an understanding of the roots of societal problems, and the practice of the virtues—to become productive and transformative members of society.

A eucharistic spirituality that propels students into Christian service will help them not only to meet any crisis of values and meaning in their lives but also to be transformative agents in the world. The Eucharist is lived daily as the faithful take Christ to others.

Religious formation and Christian service programs should inspire young people to have a vision of their mission in society and the Church. These programs should inspire young people to aspire to fulfill the vocation and mission to which God calls them​. It is not good enough for them to think that they will just try to be good. Christ asks them to be the salt and light of the earth. Religious formation and Christian service programs should transmit this vision to them.

Members of St. Brendan School take an active role in living out Gospel values through service to the community. A  St. Brendan Student “responds to global and community needs through acts of service.” St. Brendan School has maintained a close relationship with Alexandria House, a nearby transitional shelter for homeless women and children, through the collection of food, goods, and clothing through various drives throughout the year. Many students and families also volunteer their time and service to Alexandria House. St. Brendan School also provides consistent service in collaboration with The Nick Fagnano Thrive in Joy Foundation, formed in honor of a former St. Brendan School student. The foundation primarily serves an orphanage in the Dominican Republic through the renovation of classrooms, provision of sports equipment, and update of technology.

In addition to these significant relationships, St. Brendan School students, parents, and staff regularly participate in a number of other service projects.  These projects include monthly Hope Net donations of canned and dry goods; Veterans’ Day letters for the troops; Thanksgiving food drive; Annual Coat Drive for St. Francis Center; Adopt-a-Family, providing Christmas gifts to needy families; Christmas project at Covenant House; the Christmas Toy Drive for the parish and Alexandria House; and the Penny War, raising funds for A Friendly Place serving homeless women.

​Active St. Brendan School partnerships:

• Alexandria House
  

• St. Anne’s Home

• New Horizon Islamic School

• St. John of God (intergenerational service project)

• Hope Net

• Santa Teresita (peer tutoring)

• Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels Adopt-a-Family

• Covenant House

• A Friendly Manor

• Thrive in Joy Foundation

• Homeboy Industries