September 29, 2017

Principal’s Message

Another successful active week at St. Rose School! The family day lunch and book fair was a huge success! It was a wonderful turnout and students really enjoy when parents and family members come to school and visit! We love seeing you and you are always wel-come! We appreciate your efforts and support! Thank you for coming, Mrs. Schroeder for organizing the book fair and Mrs. Moeller and Mrs. Osina for preparing the delicious meal! Pep rallies are exciting with fun skits and booster tag prizes! Battle cry competition of classes shows the spirit with loud cheering echoing from stu-dents, teachers and parents all getting in the action! Great job cheerleaders! We are so proud of our cardinal football team and volleyball teams! They are working hard, executing great plays making the games exciting! The cheerleaders and pep squad keep us entertained with cheers and cute dances! Way to go Cardinals!

Yesterday after mass Laura Varela (5th) gave a beautiful goodbye message to the school family express-ing thanks for all learned and experienced by her, Dan-iela (3rd), and Rafael (K) while their family was at St. Rose School. The Varela family then celebrated by bring-ing donuts for all students and staff in the cafeteria! We wish them well as they return to Mexico to a new home and school in Merida.

This weekend is ‘Respect Life Sunday,’ remind-ing us the preciousness of God’s gift of life to us and im-portance of showing respect from the moment of con-ception to the last breath we breathe. Let’s help each other and our children be respectful through words, ac-tions, and interactions; praying and becoming prayer. October is the month of the Holy Rosary; come pray with us after school masses at our Rosary Mary Garden.

There’s always something to fix and repair around campus and on Monday the A/C unit in the first grade classroom will have a part changed out. The class will be in the learning lab that day. Next week Wednes-day is the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi with the bless-ing of the animals prayer service led by the eighth grad-ers at 3:00 behind the cafeteria. Students may leave right after with their parents but must sign out with the homeroom teacher.

Today is the Feast of Saints Michael, Gabriel and Raphael: Archangels. Sent from the hands of God, these powerful messengers bring promises of love and of hope. When the angel Gabriel appeared to the Virgin Mary, she was "greatly troubled" by his greeting. The angel Gabriel said, "Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God" (Lk 1:30). Gabriel's words are for

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each of us; they should resonate in the depths of our hearts: "Do not be afraid!" For God has gone to every end in order to communicate his life to us, draw us to himself, protect and nourish us into spiritual maturity, that we may live forev-er in the embrace of his superabundant, burning love as members of the divine family. St. Augustine wrote: "'Angel' is the name of their office, not of their nature. If you seek the name of their nature, it is 'spirit'; if you seek the name of their office, it is 'angel': from what they are, 'spirit,' from what they do, 'angel.'" The name Michael means "Who is like God." The Archangel Michael's will is focused, immova-ble, and entirely driven toward accomplishing goodness; he is the protector of souls, and wields his powerful sword of truth and love against the poisonous and vindictive aspira-tions of the Father of Lies. Saint John Paul II said during a visit to the Sanctuary of Saint Michael the Archangel, "The battle against the devil . . . is the principal task of Saint Mi-chael the archangel." Gabriel means "God is my strength." He was sent from God to Nazareth, "to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph . . . and the virgin's name was Mary. And coming to her, he said, 'Hail, favored one! The Lord is with you'" (Lk 1:27-28). Pope St. Gregory the Great wrote: "Gabriel came to announce the One who appeared as a hum-ble man to quell the cosmic powers. Thus God's strength an-nounced the coming of the Lord of heavenly powers, mighty in battle" (excerpt from Hom. 34, 8-9). Raphael means "God is my health." He is one of seven angels "who enter and serve before the Glory of the Lord" (Tob 12:15). The meaning of Raphael's name reflects the fact that he touched Tobit's eyes and brought sight from blindness.

"He has given his angels charge over you to guard you in all your ways" (Ps 91:11).

Have a great weekend! Take Care and God Bless!

Rosanne Gallia

Catholic Schools: F.I.R.S.T. Class Education … for life F – faith I – integrity R – respect S – scholarship T - tradition

Monday:

Tuesday:

Wednesday: Blessing of Animals 3pm back parking lot, VB 5:15 at Nazareth Academy

Thursday: Mass 2, FB at Nazareth Academy

Friday: Assembly 12:30, Dismiss 1:00 for Staff Mtg.

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The Cardinal volleyball teams lost three matches to OLV on Monday night. The C-team score was 30-29 and 25-18. The B-team fell 25-7 and 25-8. The A-team score was 25-8 and 25-23. We will make up the Nazareth Academy volleyball games on Wednesday October 4th in Victoria at the Naza-reth Academy gym located at 206 W. Convent St. The C-team will start at 5:15 followed by the B-team and then the A-team. The make-up game against Trinity is still pending. The Trinity A-team volleyball tournament will be played this Saturday September 30th at the Trinity gym located at 406 W. San Antonio Street in Victoria. The Car-dinals play game 3 of the pool play tournament which should be around 10am. The players should be at the gym between 9 and 9:15. The girls will play again 2 matches later and once more in bracket play. Do not park in the Victoria Women’s Club parking lot near the gym. Those vehicles will be towed. The Cardinal football team lost to St. Philip on Wednesday by the score of 24-0. The Cardinal football team will play next week in Victoria against Nazareth Academy on Thursday October 5th at Alicardi Field starting at 5:30pm. Alicardi Field is located at 1704 SW Moody St. This is on business 77 through downtown and will be on the right after crossing the Guadalupe River. The volleyball games against OLG in Port Lavaca have

been cancelled. The make-up football game against OLV is pending.

This is a easy way for our school to receive cash from over 400 of

America’s best online merchants! One of our packets contains the

Golden Ticket, good luck!

The Besetzny family donated $100 towards our school library.

We appreciate the following cafeteria volunteers for helping on Family Lunch Day: Josie Hermes, Kathy Orsak, Eddie Moeller & Larry Osina.

Michael Lapham of Stardust Cleaning donated services to clean our Library floor.

The Helms family freshened up the Dayton Helms Memorial Plaza garden. Beautiful fall flowers and mulch was added.

Cardinal Athletics Submitted by Coach Zaruba

Wednesday 3:00 pm Back parking lot There will also be a “Dollars for Dogs, Coins for Cats” collection jar in the cafeteria benefitting the Gardenia Janssen Animal Shelter in LaGrange Monday thru Wednesday.

The recent hurricane and flooding has left the commu-nities of La Grange & Bastrop in desperate need of pet food, litter, collars, bedding and cleaning supplies in addition to mone-tary donations. Your child may bring bags/cans of pet food, lit-ter, puppy pads, collars, pet toys, bedding & cleaning supplies to the school cafeteria and place them in the marked collection tubs.

Tiny Tootsie Talk

from our Early Childhood Center

Teaching the Faith to our youngest is a great honor and serious responsibility with eternal rewards.

How do we teach 3,4 & 5 year old children such pro-found concepts such as the truth of the Holy Trinity? Simple, with childlike faith and trust in our God who will help us. As teacher we use both the spiritual gifts and tangible re-sources God provides each of us to guide the children into the life of the church. For example the 3K Little Angels have been learning all about the Letter A as a cross curricular theme. We use object lessons to make connections be-tween the knowledge they already have with new concepts. Taking an apple we discussed how it has three parts the skin, the flesh, and the core with seeds that make up one apple; just like there are three persons in the Holy Trinity yet one God. God the Father who covers all, Jesus the son who took on flesh and became man, and the Holy Spirit who sows seeds of faith and inspires them to grow. Every day objects can help us teach the youngest child the truth and unconditional love of our catholic faith. What will you use to share the gospel with your child today?

Blessings of Faith, Family, Friendship & Fun be upon you all!

For more ideas you can visit www.growingupcatholic.com or www.catholicicing.com

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- Tuesday, October 10 - Parent meeting & student sign up

5:00pm Cafeteria

Sales Kick-off Today! SRLCS receives 100% profit from ticket sales. Our

school is guaranteed a $1,000 prepaid Visa Credit

Card Individual Winner drawn from our tickets sold.

* SELLER INCENTIVES * Free Denim Coupon for every 20 sold

Earn (1) HSA point for selling 40 tickets

Monthly top seller receives a $25 Wal-Mart Gift Card Turn in sold tickets and money weekly to the School Ofc.

HSA Fundraiser Sept 29 - Oct 20

HSA receives 50% on catalog sales and 40% from online orders.

Families earn (1) HSA point for $300 in sales

You are invited to join us after the Weekly Mass for the Rosary in the front Mary Garden