From the desk of Sister Stella
PWC President
Parish News
Traffic Duty Assignments
Weekly Readings/Reflections
Paulist Choristers News
Students School Activities
From the School Nurse
Fall Festival
Miscellaneous

Today we salute and thank the 2002-2003 Paulist Women's Club Board. You have given 100% of yourselves throughout this year. Each one of you has carried out your tasks with great care and dedication. You have shown up to Board meetings early on Monday mornings and you have shown up to perform your various duties and responsibilities with great pride and diligence. Our school community owes you a dept of gratitude for your most generous and consistent service throughout the year. Carolyn, you have been a most successful leader and you brought the best out of each member of your board and from each committee.

Thank You to all of you and to all members of your families who shared you with us.

Miss Hall and Miss Craveiro, Once again, by your lovely selections of music and songs, you brought delight to the hearts of our parents. Thank you for enriching our lives and instilling a love of music in the heart of our children

.St. Joseph's Center celebration of our school community was a spectacular success. What a party! It was delightful to see the participation of so many from St. Paul’s:

       Fr. Tom and the Parish Core Staff
      Sr. Linda Webb, DMJ Provincial of the DMJ'S and many community members.
      Mrs. Kathleen Damish, our school supervisor
      Several SPA teachers

       Carolyn Moynagh, PWC President and members of her Board.
       Many, many parents and friends from St. Paul’s.
       Next week you may view our rewards in the school library.

I pray that each Mother had a blessed Mother's Day and that each day of this year will be filled with continued blessings.

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PWC President

Dear SPA Parents,

Congratulations!

Congratulations to Karen Knott, her new Board and all the new Room Parents. My best wished to all of you for a very successful year next year.

Sister Stella, congratulations on your recognition at the St. Joseph’s dinner last Saturday. It was a true tribute to a great woman.

Thank You!

Thank you to Head Room Chairs Kim Ryan and Mary Curry, along with Room Parents Kimberly Harold, Agnes Kenworthy, Julie Chait, Celeste Plueger, Holiday Maginnis and Francesca Perazzelli for such a great job planning the Spring Sing II. Mary Montalbo, your food is fabulous as always.

Late Day Reminder

Monday May 19,2003 is a late day for all students. Mark your calendar.

Caroline Moynagh – PWC President

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Parish News

One, Holy, Catholic & Apostolic

Mother’s Day Musings

This past April, I visited the Bill Viola exhibit at the Getty Museum. Viola uses the medium of video for his artwork. For this series, entitled The Passions, he immersed himself in studying many of the old masters’ paintings. One painting, The Annunciation, painted by a lesser known
Flemish artist, particularly struck Viola. In it Mary is kneeling in prayer and the angel Gabriel is standing behind Mary, announcing to her that she is to be the mother of the Christ.

On the audio tape that accompanied the exhibition, Viola suggested that the Annunciation is perhaps the most significant moment that has ever been represented in art. He was struck by the restrained emotion in the artwork and suggested that what the painting, and perhaps the actual event really was about. Knowing something before words and before language… the way a woman knows inside that she is pregnant. It kind of knows it on the inside it’s not head knowledge…it’s inner knowledge." Any woman who has had the opportunity to conceive
understands what Viola is trying to express. There is a mysterious, private feeling of stillness and clarity, an "inner knowing", that steals upon a woman when she first becomes aware that she is pregnant.

This profound knowing resembles moments in our lives when the clouds part, and a deep sense of faith is strong and immediate. At those times faith is also a mysterious, private feeling of stillness and clarity…an "inner knowing". It is as if one is pregnant with faith. Perhaps that is
one of the reasons why motherhood is held in such high esteem in our culture. There is something about it that interacts with the divine in a fleshy, concrete way that no other human experience can come close to

.Speaking for the staff and parishioners of St. Paul’s, I wish all the women of the parish who, in myriad ways, have nurtured and been life-givers to others, a very happy Mother’s Day.

Claire Henning
Pastoral Coordinator

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MARK YOUR CALENDARS

St. Paul the Apostle Parish Picnic
Help celebrate our church's 75th Anniversary
Saturday, June 28th 11:00am to 4:00pm

UCLA Sunset Canyon Rec Center
Adult & children picnic games, all day Buffet B-B-que, swimming music and much much more!

Mark Your calendars
Questions: Jackie Brooks or Christine Lynch

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Traffic Duty Assignments

The month of May is Kindergarten Traffic Duty

If you have not done traffic duty before and are still not clear on the concept- please call me before to get direction. The first time can be confusing.

For AM positions arrive no later than 7:20.
For PM positions arrive no later than 2:45. Send cars down the driveway at 2:55 or when the gate is open.

For Substitutions call:
Thurs. Morning only: Janet Pregler

Otherwise consult your room parents or call me.

Teresa McDugald

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Weekly Readings/Reflections

Next Sunday, May 18, is the Fifth Sunday of Easter
Please read and reflect on these readings during the week (alone or with family and friends), and come to next Sunday’s liturgy prepared to listen attentively to the proclamation of the Word of God.

READING I Acts 9:26-31

When Saul arrived in Jerusalem he tried to join the disciples, but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple. Then Barnabas took charge of him and brought him to the apostles,
and he reported to them how he had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken to him, and how in Damascus he had spoken out boldly in the name of Jesus.
He moved about freely with them in Jerusalem, and spoke out boldly in the name of the Lord.
He also spoke and debated with the Hellenists, but they tried to kill him.
And when the brothers learned of this, they took him down to Caesarea and sent him on his way to Tarsus.
The church throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria was at peace.
It was being built up and walked in the fear of the Lord, and with the consolation of the Holy Spirit it grew in numbers.

READING II 1 John 3:18-24

Children, let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth.
Now this is how we shall know that we belong to the truth and reassure our hearts before him in whatever our hearts condemn, for God is greater than our hearts and knows everything.
Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence in God and receive from him whatever we ask, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.
And his commandment is this:
we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another just as he commanded us.
Those who keep his commandments remain in him, and he in them,
and the way we know that he remains in us is from the Spirit he gave us.

GOSPEL John 15:1-8

Jesus said to his disciples:
"I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine grower.
He takes away every branch in me that does not bear fruit, and every one that does he prunes so that it bears more fruit.
You are already pruned because of the word that I spoke to you.
Remain in me, as I remain in you.
Just as a branch cannot bear fruit on its own unless it remains on the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me.
I am the vine, you are the branches.
Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit, because without me you can do nothing.
Anyone who does not remain in me will be thrown out like a branch and wither; people will gather them and throw them into a fire and they will be burned.
If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask for whatever you want and it will be done for you.
By this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples."

FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER (May 18)

READINGS The disciples fear, then trust Saul (Paul) who is preaching with power; We show love best in deeds, not words;
We need to stay connected to the Lord to be fruitful disciples.

WHAT I HEAR What does being connected to the ‘true vine’ mean for me?

MY FAITH JOURNEY Who is my spiritual mentor? Have we connected recently?

FOR CHILDREN Have you seen what happens to a branch when it is cut off from the tree? If it stays connected it is full of life and becomes more beautiful. Jesus wants us to stay close to him like that.
How can we stay close to Jesus this week?

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Paulist Choristers News

Paulist Choristers of California

Event: Concert
Place: St. Paul the Apostle Church
10750 Ohio Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Date and Time: Saturday, May 17,2003

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Students School Activities

Boys Volleyball

Congratulations to the Boys Delphic League Volleyball team!
On Thursday they captured the 7th grade volleyball championship, defeating Harvard Westlake 2 – 1. This is the first ever - Delphic League Championship for St. Paul’s.
Way to go boys!

Jump Rope for Heart News

Our official total is $17,383.00
Again, thank-you to all who made this such a huge success.
A little note to let you know that you will receive your prizes before school ends.
For those of you who submitted your sponsor envelope late (after Jump Rope for Heart day, April 17th), there is NO guarantee that you will receive any prizes, but please rest assured that your donations have been forwarded to the American Heart Association.

Thank you,
Miss Suizzo

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From the School Nurse

From the School Health Office

If you have lost a watch or wallet on the school grounds since the beginning of school please come to the health office and identify. If they are not claimed by end of the school year they will be given to charity.

Thank You
Ms. V. Anderson BS RN

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Fall Festival

ALOHA, ST. PAUL'S FESTIVAL 2003
SILENT AUCTION CONTEST
May 5-23, 2003

The Silent Auction Committee is proud to announce a STUDENT CONTEST to be held May 5- 23rd. Families are asked to bring in donated auction items ( listed below ). A FREE PIZZA party will be awarded to the class who brings in the most items! For families that have children in more than one class, each class will get credit for a donation.

Please consider soliciting your favorite businesses, or friends and family members, to donate items for the Silent Auction. All items, large and small, will be appreciated. (We can group smaller items together to make our "baskets".) Here are a few suggestions:

       Gift certificates for shops, restaurants, hair salons
       Tickets for theater, sporting events, airlines
       Vacation "Getaways"
       Entertainment industry "goodies"
       Services, like interior design, tax consultation
       Small items, like new DVD's or best-selling books

All students have been given a contest flier and donation form. Donations should be brought in, along with the forms, by May 23rd. Auction Committee members will be on hand after school in the pavilion to take donations every Thursday during the contest, (May 8, May 15 and May 22). You may also follow the directions for submission at other drop-off locations, which are written on the donation form.

If you have any questions, call Brigid Heaney. Thanks in advance for your great support of our Silent Auction fundraiser!

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Miscellaneous

FROM THE SCHOOL OFFICE

Registration packets will be mailed on 5/21/03 to those families who pre-registered in March (paid their pre-reg fee). Please watch for this important information. If for some reason you do not receive a packet by 5/28, please call the office at (310) 474-1588 ext. 220. Pay special attention to the Student information card. Fill it in completely and accurately. This is used in the main school program. Please return all the information to us A.S.A.P.

Thank you for your help, Patty

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DO - NUT MISS IT !!!!

Nice and fresh
extra satisfyin'
Krispy Kreme
that's what you'll be buyin'

Bring some cash
Donuts will be flyin'
for the Choristers !

FRIDAY, MAY 16TH
Bet you dollars to donuts - you'll love it

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