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You’ve gotten some really good advice here. Sports, extra-curricular leadership activities, high grades, good teacher recommendations, high SAT scores, the Summer Session (VERY helpful!!) are all things he wants on his resume. All honors and honor societies he can list also help.
Some of the best priests I have met have been Navy Chaplains. One of them became the Cardinal Archbishop of New York a few decades back.
Your son might want to read the biography of Fr. Vincent Capodanno, a Navy Chaplain who received the Medal of Honor. Interestingly, among the few MOH recipients in the last few years are two Navy SEALs who were also devout Catholics.
The virtues of self control, honor, hard work and sacrifice are not incompatible with Catholicism. Life at the USNA is a call to exercise those virtues and then take them out into the fleet. Someone I am very close to was among those who at a pre-graduation Mass at the USNA Chapel (where he later married his sweetheart, another lovely perk!) pledged his Naval Service to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. There is a plaque there at the chapel with the names of the students who did that.
It’s an important undertaking, not to be taken lightly. I think of the words to the song “Who more than self their country loved, and mercy more than life.”
As St. Martin exemplifies, military service is a path to sanctity as well. Good luck!
Some of the best priests I have met have been Navy Chaplains. One of them became the Cardinal Archbishop of New York a few decades back.
Your son might want to read the biography of Fr. Vincent Capodanno, a Navy Chaplain who received the Medal of Honor. Interestingly, among the few MOH recipients in the last few years are two Navy SEALs who were also devout Catholics.
The virtues of self control, honor, hard work and sacrifice are not incompatible with Catholicism. Life at the USNA is a call to exercise those virtues and then take them out into the fleet. Someone I am very close to was among those who at a pre-graduation Mass at the USNA Chapel (where he later married his sweetheart, another lovely perk!) pledged his Naval Service to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. There is a plaque there at the chapel with the names of the students who did that.
It’s an important undertaking, not to be taken lightly. I think of the words to the song “Who more than self their country loved, and mercy more than life.”
As St. Martin exemplifies, military service is a path to sanctity as well. Good luck!