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Beloved daughters gather at Nolan Catholic for community event
- NCHS
- Dec 15
- 2 min read
North Texas Catholic
(Dec 11, 2025)
FORT WORTH — On Dec. 3, just days after the start of the Advent season, the Catholic Culture Committee at Nolan Catholic High School hosted an event for teen and adult women called “Beloved: A Gathering of God’s Daughters.”
Rooted in a spirit of community, the evening included breaking bread, faith sharing, prayer, and writing notes of blessing. Every activity intentionally affirmed a truth many young women are still learning and perhaps more mature women sometimes forget: Each is loved and cherished, not according to the world’s standards, but because they are daughters of their Heavenly Father.
Event organizers and Nolan parents Michelle Stavens and Summer Riney shared a vision to bring together mothers, teen daughters, and any woman connected to Nolan, including alumni, grandmothers, and staff.
Stavens, mother of three Nolan graduates and a current senior, said that inspiration for the theme came to her during Adoration as she prayerfully contemplated what she would want her own daughter to experience there.
“I wanted her to feel her worth through Christ, to know she was enough simply by being a beloved daughter of Christ,” Stavens said. “But I also knew it wasn’t just our daughters that needed to be reminded of this. We all did!”
She hoped the event’s name, Beloved — which also came to her during Adoration — would capture the intent of the evening. “Something needed to draw us all together and this was it,” she recalled. “It doesn’t matter how old we are or where we come from, the one thing we all have in common is we are all daughters of Christ. We are His beloved and if we can just remember that one simple truth, no judgment in this world will matter.”
