From the desk of Sister Stella
Father Brad
PWC President
Parish News
SPA Fall Festival
Traffic Duty Assignments
Weekly Readings/Reflections
SPA Chess Club

“Our faith can guide our vision. It can direct our actions. It can be a strong foundation for our careers, our communities, our families, our government and our own happiness.” (Orin Hatch)

From the Desk of Sister Stella Maria, Principal:

One final salute to our Class of 2007! We are deeply grateful to your parents for entrusting you to us for nine years. May the next four years and the rest of your life be shaped by your deep faith in God, your family and your friends. Go with God, Class of 2007.

To our Kindergarten Graduates, congratulations! You have grown so much in one year. Your parents, teachers and your Principal are very proud of you. Enjoy a free, happy and joy-filled summer.

Summer months at St. Paul’s campus will be unusually busy this year. During the electrical work, the campus will be completely closed to children. The Faculty and Staff are preparing their rooms for the workmen. We will not be allowed back in the 1935 and 1950 buildings until the end of August.

The school office will be located in the Library with the hours of 8:30am – 2:00pm. The Principal’s office will be located in the Faculty dining room. I have a busy summer, so I will be in and out of the office. You may leave messages for me with Lindsay in the school office. I will check with her regularly and make every effort to get back to you.

We want the flow of student movement to be as helpful as possible for everyone, so we are making the following changes:

KB will move to 2A
4A will move to KB
(4A and 4B will be next to each other)
2A will move into the current 4A
(2A and 2B will be across the driveway from each other)

We will begin sequencing the changes the day after Kindergarten Graduation. We will have some flexibility of space as both eighth grade classes as well as KA will be (mostly) empty. You may start picking-up your desks on Thursday, June 14th.

You will find the desks in the driveway outside of the Library.

We are looking forward to the Parish Picnic this Saturday. Two years ago we had our first picnic at UCLA and it was a complete success. At that time, we decided that this was such a great community event that we should do it every two years. It will be very special for the incoming Kindergartners, as they will have a section of the park to meet and play with their future classmates. We will have nametags ready for every child, and we ask that parents make their own nametags upon arrival. We want everyone to feel welcomed and introduced. If you pre-ordered your Picnic Tickets and have not yet retrieved them from the school office, they will be sent home with your oldest or only child this Thursday.

Here is the schedule:

 

Parish Picnic

Saturday, June 16

UCLA’s Sunset Canyon

Recreation Area

11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Live DJ, swimming, bouncy, ice cream, all day buffet, water fames, adult picnic games, pie eating contest, raffle, bingo, games, snow cones

Bring your swimming suit, towel, picnic blanket, sun block & hat. Parking entrance at Bellagio/Sunset Lot 11. Limited parking stickers available at $8.00 per car. CHILDREN 12 AND UNDER OR 48" OR UNDER MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY AN ADULT AT THE SWIMMING POOL.

Adults $10, Children $5

Toddlers 5 and under free

Tickets on sale in Parish Office

Cash and check only. Make checks payable to St. Paul the Apostle. Deadline for ticket sales is Monday, June 11.

June 17 Father’s Day

Croquet Tournament

You are cordially invited to a special Father's Day

croquet tournament and silent auction

at the home of

 

Barbera Thornhill and Gary Wilson

in Holmby Hills, California

 

Sunday, June 17, 2007 3:30 to 7 PM

 Cocktails

Musical performance by the Paulist Choristers

$100 per guest or $150 per couple

Proceeds benefit the Paulist Choristers of California

Valet parking

 RSVP by 5 PM on June 11, 2007

Call (310) 499-0548

                       

For your information, all report cards will be mailed on June 23rd. If you received a summer school requirement for a student, you will obtain the report card for that child after proof of summer school has been submitted.

Please note that Tuesday, June 19th is Teacher Appreciation Day. School will begin at 10:20am. Please see the following schedule for Wednesday, June 20th:

           7:45am-              Opening Exercises / Morning Announcements

            8:00am-              Final Classroom Organization / Clean-up

            8:30am-               Special Summer Prayer Ritual on the School Yard

            8:45am-              Time for Students to Receive / Sign Yearbooks

            9:45am-              Return to Class for Last Minute Checkout & Dismissal

Have a Happy, Safe Summer!

PS. Catholic Families - make sure that Sunday Mass is scheduled every Sunday for the entire summer. Live your faith every day as you model it for your children. 

                       

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The Eucharist, You & Me

For many weeks now, ever since Easter, we have been celebrating our Eucharist by recognizing those who come to receive for the first time: those newly baptized and confirmed as adults, adults coming from a different faith tradition and now taking on Catholicism as their own faith, and our children.  This weekend, when we celebrate the Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ, we will again welcome to adults to full communion with the Catholic Church.  Congratulations to Each of You!

   Now I know there are some who think of this as a fairly routine act, and really judge the mass by the homilies.  There are those who think they can skip the weekly “Jesus Meal” of Sunday mass, because they get nothing out of it.  I’ve never understood any of that.  For me, not to be at mass each week, even when I’m not presiding, would be so awful I couldn’t bear it.  It is not a routine action, it is ritual action.

   I’m not saying homilies are not important, but I am saying the very act of coming to communion, which completes the celebration of Eucharist is life giving.  And I say this, especially because I am leaving this community of St. Paul the Apostle to lead the community of St. Luke in Allendale, MI.  You probably won’t remember my first words to the parish when I was introduced.  It is one of my standard lines, and it is very intentional, “You are the members of the Body of  Christ I haven’t meant yet.  Now it is my pleasure to meet you.”  And I did, and it has been both grace and pleasure to know you.

   I mean that—fellow members of the Body of Christ!  I actually knew you before I came to St. Paul’s, having participated and celebrated unknown numbers of masses before I was ever here.  Each time a mass is celebrated it brings together every celebration of the Eucharist of every time and every place—because Christ is one, outside of time and space, eternally present in the Spirit.

   So when I say (and I’ve said it a lot to First Eucharist parents), you need to be at mass every week, I’m not trying to lay a guilt trip on you, but I want you to see that Eucharist is life—not because of the homilies, not because of the music, not even because of convenience or lack there of—but to want to be present at the Eucharist is to say what we believe—Jesus is with us, and brings us together.  You can’t —it is impossible with any integrity — teach other’s about Eucharist/Communion without celebrating it.

   Can you eat a meal without actually having food?  What Jesus has given us is real food and real drink (John’s gospel), and as the bread and wine are changed into his body and blood so are we.  This is a gradual process, happening in time, and what Eucharist means to 2nd graders should be very different than what it means to a 50 year old.  Each of us in transformed, step by step, some faster, some more intensely than others.  This is what I am staking my life on, and what I hope you will join me in doing.

   As I leave St. Paul the Apostle, I have another line that I always use, because I believe it.  There is no possible way I could ever leave St. Paul the Apostle and all of you if I did not believe that the Eucharist always unites us.  The Eucharist in unlimited, it has no boundaries it pulls together all who desire to share in it, one body in Christ.

   So this is not farewell, it is a beginning of a new stage for each of us, you will always be with me as I celebrate the Eucharist, and I will always be with you!

Love you!

  

Fr. Brad  

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PWC President

 

Dear SPA Families:

I want to thank you for giving me the opportunity to serve as the PWC President.  It has truly been a wonderful experience.  Thank you to my fabulous board.  Thank you to the parents, faculty and staff for all that you do for Saint Paul the Apostle School.  I will always admire your dedication, loyalty and generosity.

I wish Tina Cathcart and the 2007-2008 PWC Board much success as they continue to coordinate all the wonderful events and programs that support our school and parish.

Faculty and Staff Appreciation Breakfast

Each year, the PWC Board sponsors a special breakfast for the SPA faculty and staff after a special Mass.  This is our small way of letting them know how much we appreciate them.  Our teachers are responsible for educating the hearts and minds of our children and we are so very grateful.

Late Day

Please remember that Tuesday, June 19th will be a late day.  Coaches program will be in effect.

Thank you again for EVERYTHING!  Have a great summer!

Mary Kay Lalli

PWC President

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Parish News

Fr. Brad’s Farwell

Please Join Us

 Sunday, June 24th

5 PM Mass

Followed by a Reception in the JCPC

I hope you’ll join me on the weekend of June 23/24, as I say my good bye’s by celebrating all the weekend masses and greeting you.

After the 5 p.m. Mass, Sunday, there will be a special potluck and slide show memories to share.  Contact Mary Ann Bertolucci to see what you can bring! 310-474-1527, ext 240.

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DO NO HARM

     At the invitation of the Center for Religion and Spirituality at Loyola Marymount University, St. Paul the Apostle is pleased to host a Sunday evening lecture that is the opening event of a week-long course entitled, "DO NO HARM: Christian Ethics and the Participation of Physicians in the Execution Process," on July 1, 7:00 to 9:15 PM, Room TBA.  This Sunday evening lecture is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Sunday night participants do not need to sign up for the entire course in order to attend this lecture here at SPA.

     The course presenter, Michael B. Pesce, M.D., J.D., an anesthesiologist in Beverly Hills, is an Adjunct Professor with the Bioethics Institute at LMU and Clinical Instructor in the USC School of Medicine.  He is a consultant to the office of the Federal Public Defender in Los Angeles on the medical and ethical aspects of the California lethal injection procedure and is currently working on a death penalty appeal for a San Quentin death row inmate.

     For more information, see the fliers at the church entrances. To register for the week-long course, contact the Center for Religion and

Spirituality at (310) 338-2799 or http://lmu.edu/extension/religion

http://lmu.ecu/extension/religion .

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Traffic Duty Assignments

Mmonth ofJune 19 & 20 Traffic Duty Assignment 1st Grade Parents

PARENT TRAFFIC RESPON1SIBILITIES. 

Note:  Please arrive by 7:20 am or 2:30 pm to complete your assignment.  Should you have questions about your duty do not hesitate to contact your room parents or Liane Schirmer. 

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Weekly Readings/Reflections

Readings for Sunday June 17

Reading I

2 Samuel 12:7-10, 13

Nathan said to David:
“Thus says the LORD God of Israel:
‘I anointed you king of Israel.
I rescued you from the hand of Saul.
I gave you your lord’s house and your lord’s wives for your own.
I gave you the house of Israel and of Judah.
And if this were not enough, I could count up for you still more.
Why have you spurned the Lord and done evil in his sight?
You have cut down Uriah the Hittite with the sword;
you took his wife as your own,
and him you killed with the sword of the Ammonites.
Now, therefore, the sword shall never depart from your house,
because you have despised me
and have taken the wife of Uriah to be your wife.’
Then David said to Nathan,
“I have sinned against the LORD.”
Nathan answered David:
“The LORD on his part has forgiven your sin:
you shall not die.”

Gospel

Luke 7:36-8:3
 
A Pharisee invited Jesus to dine with him,
and he entered the Pharisee’s house and reclined at table.
Now there was a sinful woman in the city
who learned that he was at table in the house of the Pharisee.
Bringing an alabaster flask of ointment,
she stood behind him at his feet weeping
and began to bathe his feet with her tears.
Then she wiped them with her hair,
kissed them, and anointed them with the ointment.
When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this he said to himself,
“If this man were a prophet,
he would know who and what sort of woman this is who is touching him,
that she is a sinner.”
Jesus said to him in reply,
“Simon, I have something to say to you.”
“Tell me, teacher, ” he said.
“Two people were in debt to a certain creditor;
one owed five hundred days’ wages and the other owed fifty.
Since they were unable to repay the debt, he forgave it for both.
Which of them will love him more?”
Simon said in reply,
“The one, I suppose, whose larger debt was forgiven.”
He said to him, “You have judged rightly.”

Then he turned to the woman and said to Simon,
“Do you see this woman?
When I entered your house, you did not give me water for my feet,
but she has bathed them with her tears
and wiped them with her hair.
You did not give me a kiss,
but she has not ceased kissing my feet since the time I entered.
You did not anoint my head with oil,
but she anointed my feet with ointment.
So I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven
because she has shown great love.
But the one to whom little is forgiven, loves little.”
He said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.”
The others at table said to themselves,
“Who is this who even forgives sins?”
But he said to the woman,
“Your faith has saved you; go in peace.”

Afterward he journeyed from one town and village to another,
preaching and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God.
Accompanying him were the Twelve
and some women who had been cured of evil spirits and infirmities,
Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out,
Joanna, the wife of Herod’s steward Chuza,
Susanna, and many others who provided for them
out of their resources.

 

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St. Paul the Apostle Chess Club:  20 Years of Thinking Ahead, 1987-2007

Three Kings: Congratulations to Ben, Charlie and Connor!

 

Jack Peters presented 5th Graders Ben W., Charlie C. and 7th Grader Connor H. with the top three trophies at the Chess Club awards ceremony last week in the Parish Center.  These students were the top players, respectively, in the Advanced Chess class.  In addition, Special Recognition prizes were given to 6th Grader CaitlinL., 5th Grader Tom H., 4th Grader Sophie K., 3rd Graders Stefano W. and HaleT., 2nd Graders Ava H. and Stephen B., and 1st Graders Sophie W. and SteveC.  Congratulations to all 90 players for a great year of learning and thinking forward, backward, sideways and diagonally.  Making choices can be a lot of fun!

In other St. Paul’s chess news, 3rd Grader Graham M. proved to be quite the chess king himself at the recent Summer Scholastic Tournament at Warner Elementary School where 134 local students participated.  Graham took 1st Place in his novice division, proudly representing all St. Paul’s Chess Club students.  Way to go!

Finally, a big Chess Club round of applause goes to 8th Grader Sean B. for receiving the 2007 Chess Award at graduation.  Sean participated in the 19-9 victory over Westwood Charter and was an active member of the Chess Club during his years at St. Paul’s.  Good luck in all that you do, Sean.  We’ll look forward to seeing you at the Fall Festival when the Checkmate Café returns to navigate the high seas in search of buried treasure at Pirates Cove.  Ahoy, mate!

John Walsh, Program Director

Brigid Heaney, Treasurer

www.spachess.org

 

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