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PWC President
PWC Function
Traffic Duty Assignments
Weekly Readings/Reflections
Playground Volunteer
Hot Lunch Volunteers

Rejoice. 0 earth, in shining splendor.
radiant in the brightness of your Kinq!

During Easter days, Christians should read Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poem That Nature is a Heraciitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection. The words of the poem are an explosion of images that crescendo into an incantation of splendor — ours, earth’s — in the resurrection of Christ, the “immortal diamond.”

It is an apt image: Christ the diamond. Forged in the depths of the earth, formed of carbon by heat and the pressure of time. Christ, the one who shines from every facet of the body, from within, a radiance of life.

We celebrate this Christ, who descended into the bowels of the earth and has made the abyss tremble in the light. Christ, who climbed the cross of pain and human injustice, charred by our mortality, now is the diamond. Christ, the immortal one, shines.

And what Christ is, all creation is destined to become. The earth, too, will be a diamond. The earth and all that is born of it will share the shining radiance of the One who has transformed our flesh. What Christ is, we will become.

Rejoice, then, 0 earth! Rejoice, 0 my soul! The pressure and the ravages of time will no longer harm you, for the One who is diamond fashions you into an immortal jewel. How is the fragile body, the much-abused earth, to be a diamond? Will we allow the transformation? And what will become of us?

—The Shining Splendor, Richard Fragomeni

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PWC President

Dear SPA Parents:

              Grandparents/Special Friend Day is on Friday.  What a great day Anne Marie Scibelli and her committee have planned for your children to enjoy with their randparents.  The day will begin with Mass and lunch is catered by Pie n ’Burger.  There will be a tent/ canopy on the yard and tables set up, so there will be special “Festival” dismissal-or street pick-up on Friday.  Please look for further information from Sister Stella regarding pick-up on Friday!!

              The Installation Luncheon will be on Wednesday, May 7th.  The PWC will hold a “mini” Board Meeting and have a Power Point Presentation for all to view.  We will have an Italian luncheon menu-since it is my last Spring Sing II luncheon… and I m Italian…. hence. ..pasta it is!  The PWC 2008-2009 Board will be installed by Father John Ardis.  Please send in your RSVP’s via the Black Bag to the attention of –Spring Sing II-Installation Luncheon by FRIDAY, MAY 2nd! Performances will be by grades 1-4.

              The RSVP’s are coming in and so are the Mini Cooper raffle tickets… The Spring Soiree is just a fee weeks away! Remember,  only 400 tickets will be sold.  When we have the 3 auction items finalized we will let you know- we will also have a ewelry raffle…just in time for Mother’s Day.  Please send in the RSVP’s promptly so we can plan the tenting accordingly.  Looking forward to a great “starry” night…  I have polished my silver shoes.

              The Musical Theater performances will be this weekend.  Thank you to Miss Newton and Beverly Wilkerson for all of the time spent with our very talented students!

              Have a great week!  Thought for the week:   Encourage each other and give ach other strength.
1 Thessalonians 5:11.

Tina Cathcart
PWC President

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PWC Function

Grandparents’ and Special Friends’ Day!

Friday, April 25, 2008 - 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

St. Paul the Apostle School

We are very excited about hosting our grandparents and special friends this Friday!  One important change: on Friday, April 25 school dismissal will be at 2:30 p.m. and will follow the same format as the festival dismissal.   Children will be dismissed along Selby and Ohio Avenues.  More details to follow from Sister Stella.

Grandparents/Special Friends day is this Friday.  Please remember to send in your $7 payable to the PWC for your child’s lunch.   We are not longer able to accept any more invitation requests.  Here’s to a great day!Event Itinerary:

• 7:45 p.m. – school begins for SPA children.  Regular school day, dress in school uniforms
• 9:00 a.m. - complimentary valet parking for grandparents and special friends only opens at the corner of Selby and Ohio Avenues
• 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. - welcome registration and art presentation in John Carroll Parish Center
• 10:00 - 11:00 a.m. - liturgy in church with grandchildren/special friends
• 11:15 - 1:00 p.m. - lunch and classroom tours.1:00 p.m. - conclusion - all grandparents and special friends proceed to valet parking
• 2:30 p.m. – dismissal of students similar to festival.  More details to follow.

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"UPCOMING SPA COMMUNITY EVENT"

PLEASE JOIN US FOR A "SPRING SOIREE"
SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 10TH, 2008 - 6:30PM ON ST PAUL'S CAMPUS
A SPARKLING EVENING UNDER THE STARS!
DINNER, DRINKS, & DANCING
HAVE FUN & ALSO SUPPORT THE TRADITION OF A CATHOLIC EDUCATION~
all St Paul Community members are welcome!
EVENING INCLUDES A SPECTACULAR CAR RAFFLE - ONLY 400 TICKETS WILL BE SOLD!
A BRAND NEW "MINI COOPER" COULD BE YOURS...$100.00 (PER RAFFLE TICKET)
A PETITE AUCTION WILL BE A PART OF THE EVENING!
WE WILL BE SELLING CAR RAFFLE TICKETS AFTER THE 9:00AM MASS & 5:00PM MASS.

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Traffic Duty Assignments

Month: April: 1st Grade Parents

PARENT TRAFFIC RESPONSIBILITIES.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

             Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ
SUNDAY May 25, 2008

Reading 1
Dt 8:2-3, 14b-16a

Moses said to the people: "Remember how for forty years now the LORD, your God,
has directed all your journeying in the desert,
so as to test you by affliction and
find out whether or not it was your intention
to keep his commandments.
He therefore let you be afflicted with hunger,
and then fed you with manna,
a food unknown to you and your fathers,
in order to show you that not by bread alone does one live,
but by every word that comes forth from the mouth of the LORD.

"Do not forget the LORD, your God,
who brought you out of the land of Egypt,
that place of slavery;
who guided you through the vast and terrible desert
with its saraph serpents and scorpions,
its parched and waterless ground;
who brought forth water for you from the flinty rock
and fed you in the desert with manna,
a food unknown to your fathers."

Gospel
In 6:51-58

Jesus said to the Jewish crowds:
"I am the living bread that came down from heaven;
whoever eats this bread will live forever;
and the bread that I will give
is my flesh for the life of the world."

The Jews quarreled among themselves, saying, "
How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"
Jesus said to them,
"Amen, amen, I say to you,
unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood,
you do not have life within you.
Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood
has eternal life,
and I will raise him on the last day.
For my flesh is true food,
and my blood is true drink.
Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood
  remains in me and I in him.
Just as the living Father sent me
and I have life because of the Father,
so also the one who feeds on me
will have life because of me.
This is the bread that came down from heaven.
Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died,
whoever eats this bread will live forever."

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Playgound Volunteer

1st GRADE: 11:45-12:15
April

4th GRADE 12:10-12:40

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Hot Lunch Volunteers

Hot Lunch Volunteer Schedule
April, 2008

7tht Gradde        11:20 – 11:50
Mondays                                   Wednesday                     Thursdays

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