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Gospel Values for

Term One:

Love, Forgivenessand Justice

Quote of the Week

41 5 th M a r ch2 0 1 3

I S S U E

In the end, it's not going to matterhow many breaths you took, but how

many moments took your breath

away

Shing Xiong

Prayers of the Week

You don't stop playing because you

grow old; you grow old because you

stop playing.

Birthday Wishes

Arlin Wikaira 24th

March

An Irish PrayerMay God give you...

For every storm, a rainbow,

For every tear, a smile,

For every care, a promise,

And a blessing in each trial.

For every problem life sends,

A faithful friend to share,

For every sigh, a sweet song,

And an answer for each prayer.

A wee prayer

May neighbours respect you,

Trouble neglect you,

The angels protect you,

And heaven accept you.

Quote of the CenturySchool News

Sunhats Are

compulsary! Students

must wear a wide

brimmed hat while

outside NO CAPS.

School Assembly

This year we will be

holding these on a

Friday afternoon at

2.30 in our Special

Character room. All

family and friends are

welcome to attend.

$10 Credit Due to

camp costs coming

under budget last year,

there has been a credit

of $10 per child that

attended camp placed

on the students

accounts.

Community liaison Constable Oudemans demonstrates police equipment and explains

some of the details of a police car.

Junior policeconstableMitchell

Suddaby tries

on new vest.

Students turn green for St Patrick.


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His Holiness, Pope Francis,

Supreme Pontiff, Vicar of Christ,

Bishop of Rome.

What fantastic news to hear onThursday morning, that the

Cardinals in their collective

wisdom have chosen a new Pope.

Pope Francis (the 1st). How

wonderful that for the first time

in the modern era the Vicar ofChrist has been chosen from a

Latin American country rather

than Europe and he is also the

first Jesuit pontiff and the first to

assume the name Francis.

Argentine Cardinal Jorge

Begolios election has been a

surprise for many and may heralda new strength in the Church.

The selection of the name

Francis may indicate the new

pontiffs intentions as St Francis

of Assisi, revered among

Catholics for his work with the

poor, is viewed as a reformer of

the church, answering Gods call

to Repair my Church in ruins,"Prior to becoming Pope, 76 year

old Cardinal Bergoglio was

infamous for spurning the

trappings of office and doing his

own cooking and cleaning and

for using public transport instead

on making use of the luxuries

available to him in his position of

authority. His reputation as a

champion of the poor has

endeared him to many of the 480

million Catholics in LatinAmerica. Pope Francis will meet

Pope-Emeritus Benedict XVI

tomorrow.

The new pontiffs traditional

blessing of the masses also broke

with tradition as instead of

More School News

Subway Tuesday

26th March.

Easter Hamper

Raffles Donations to

the school office by

Wednesday 20th please.

Easter Egg Hunt

Sunday 24th March, get

your tickets now!!

Active in Sport A

reminder that the

Juniors are held on

Wednesdays and the

Seniors are Fridays.

Please make sure your

child has their sports

uniform on these days

including shoes. Parent

help is also appreciated

for the Seniors.

Accounts - If any of

our school families are

having any difficulty in

paying the attendancedues, school activity

fees, or any other

school-related fees on

time, please come and

talk to us so that we

may work out a

payment method or

timeframe that suits

everyone.

Plastic Bags Any

spare plastic shopping

bags that you do not

need would be much

appreciated here at

school.

PrincipalsCommentary:

beginning his first public

appearance with a blessing, he

instead first offered a prayer for

Pope Benedict XVI and then

asked the 150,000 people

gathered in St Peters square to

pray for him. He then proceeded

with the blessing.

You know that it was the duty of

the Conclave to give Rome a

Bishop. It seems that my brother

Cardinals have gone to the endsof the earth to get one... but here

we are... I thank you for your

welcome. The diocesan

community of Rome now has its

Bishop. Thank you! And first

of all, I would like to offer a

prayer for our Bishop Emeritus,

Benedict XVI. Let us pray

together for him, that the Lord

may bless him and that Our Lady

may keep him. .

And now, we take up this

journey: Bishop and People.

This journey of the Church ofRome which presides in charity

over all the Churches. A journey

of fraternity, of love, of trust

among us. Let us always pray

for one another. Let us pray for

the whole world, that there may

be a great spirit of fraternity. It

is my hope for you that this

journey of the Church, which we

start today, and in which my

Cardinal Vicar, here present,

will assist me, will be fruitful for

the evangelization of this most

beautiful city.And now I would like to give the

blessing, but first - first I ask a

favour of you: before the Bishop

blesses his people, I ask you to

pray to the Lord that he will

bless me: the prayer of the

people asking the blessing for

their Bishop. Let us make, in

silence, this prayer: your prayer

over me.

The world is watching what the

new Bishop of Rome does and

Catholics all over the world are

rejoicing over the selection ofsomeone from outside the

traditional regions.

Our hopes and prayers and best

wishes go out to our supreme

pontiff Pope Francis.

This Sunday is St Patricks Day,which is obviously a special day

for our school. St Patrick isnt

famous just for the volume of

schools that have been named

after him; St Patrick is renowned

for ridding Ireland of all those

pesky little snakes that plagued

the Emerald Isles in the early 5th

century. In reality, Ireland has

truly never had snakes, well, not

the slithery scaled type anyway.

No, the snakes that made St

Patrick famous were the human

type and they were anti-Christian and pagan in nature. It

was ridding Ireland of these

snakes that dear old St Patrick

was celebrated for. That, and for

spreading the word of Christ and

bringing the peasants in to the

fold of the Church and away

from the dark and superstitious

practices that dominated the lives

of early rural peasantry in Ireland

at that time.

Sadly, St Patrick never got the

official title of Saint, because

while millions around the worldwill celebrate St. Patrick's Day

on March 17th, the sad fact is

that Patrick has never been

canonized by the Catholic

Church and is a saint in name

only.

There was no formal

canonization process in the

Church during its first

millennium. In the early years of

the Church the title saint was

bestowed first upon martyrs, and

then upon individuals recognized

by tradition as beingexceptionally holy during their

lifetimes. Ireland in the 4th

-10th

Centuries was known as the land

of Saints and Scholars and during

that period there were several

hundred missionaries and devout

and holy individuals proclaimed

as Saints. The most well known,

by far is our St Patrick. He was

proclaimed a saint by popular

acclaim, probably with the

approval of a Bishop. Fergal,

also know as Saint Virgil of

Salzburg (an 8th centurymissionary scholar) was

officially canonised in 1233 by

Pope Gregory IX and is one of

only 4 Irish Saints to be

canonised by Rome.

Patricks genius was in bringing

together the old pagan traditions

and the new religion together in

harmony in Ireland in the 5th

century.

Patrick was the first major figure

to reject slavery and for that

alone he deserves proper


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Community Notices

Playcentre - Waimate

Playcentre welcomes

pre-schoolers and their

families to come along

and play at 6 Belt

Street Mon/Thur 9-12

noon for more details

turn up and play or

contact Amanda 689

8982 or Pam 6891176.

Junior Cricket

Starts again this

Saturday at the High

School grounds from

9am

Waimate Scottish

Country Dance Club

resuming dance

classes and social

sessions in March.

Please contact Hazel

(Club Secretary) for

more details on 689

1202.

Northern Netball

Registration is Friday

March 22nd, 3.45 at the

Victoria Park Courts. All

interested players

please attend.

Netball Opening day

will be on Saturday 11th

May for all players.Team names and

players to Raeline

Ottley by 17th April.

Friends at St Patricks School

Only 9 more sleeps until the Easter Egg Hunt. Make sure you get your tickets fromeither the school office or the El Paso Dairy. Thank you to those parents that have

supplied some goodies for the Easter Hamper raffle, it is much appreciated. For those

who havent dont worry there is still time, get your donations to the school officeby next Wednesday please.

Thank you to those who attended the AGM meeting last Thursday, our electedmembers are: Chairperson Toni Oudemans

Secretary Kerrin Herbert

Treasurer Penny Cadagon

canonization.

Patrick preached and converted all

over Ireland for some 40 years. He

worked many miracles and wrote

of his love for God in Confessions.

After years of living in poverty,

traveling and enduring much

suffering he died on March the

17th, in the year 461, at Saul,

where he had built the first church.

Happy St Patricks Day to one and

all.Competitive SuccessRecently the students in the senior

class at St Patricks competed in the

National Sumdog competition

against other schools in New

Zealand. This was a five day

competition and at the end of of

the event we were ranked 34th.

During each day there is a daily

top ten and for the particular day

that we focused on competing, we

finished 2nd for the day out of all

competing schools.

One student; David Xie wasranked 101

stout of all those that

competed.

These figures reflect the effort that

the students put in, but also negate

the comment that smalls schools

do not provide competition. I

have heard it said that the reason

some people dont send their

children to St Patricks is because

its too small and there is no

competition. What a load of

bovine manure!

Even as we speak, I can name

three past students that areexcelling in their sports and they

certainly were not handicapped by

the size of the primary school they

attended.

A past student, Georgia Dyson is

now achieving at a national level

in swimming in the Under 13 age

bracket. Georgia attended St

Patricks and left at the end of

2011.

Joshua Gregory-Hunt came first in

the 400 metres in the recent Aoraki

Athletics meeting and is now

about to compete in the South

Island 400 metres race event.

Joshua attended St Patricks last

year and prior to that attended an

even smaller school with less than

10 students. Small schools do not

have an issue with

competitiveness.

Harrison Kemp (yes, hes one of

mine) at age 16 has just been

awarded a year-long scholarship to

play rugby for the elite VajiravudhCollege in Thailand for their First

XV and for their under-19 team.

(Hes 16.) Believe it or not, they

take rugby very seriously in

Thailand and Vajiravudh College

are the Under 15, 17 and 19

champions in the national college

competition. Harrison attended St

Patricks during 2009. Once again,

prior to attending St Patricks

Harrison attended an even smaller

school.

These are a few of the successes

that come to mind. There are manyothers. There are those that are

playing in South Canterbury

teams, regional teams and further

afield. There are those that are

successful business folk, farmers

and athletes and service personnel,

that have all passed through this

high performing wee school.

We believe in a lot of things here

at this school, especially each

other, but there is one thing that

we do not believe in and that is

that students in small schools lack

competition.If anything, students in smaller

schools have to be more

competitive.

I do have to make a comment

about recent events around the

country with regions being

declared in drought and other

regions set to follow. I even heard

this morning that the West Coast

of the South Island is in imminent

danger of being declared a drought

zone. That doesnt happen too

often! One 80 year old Coast

local recalled that this has been

the driest period in his memory.

Some areas are genuinely in

dire need of some rain.

It is saddening to see parts of

our vibrant green wee slice of

paradise suffering under the

effects of a lack of water. Some

areas look like they have been

scorched dry, burnt or just

simply dehydrated, in manyinstances, they have had all

three.

Spare a thought and a prayer for

those poor folk with stock to

care for and little or no water. It

must be very emotionally and

mentally taxing and

heartbreaking to see the effects

on livestock and the land that

many will have invested heart

and soul into.

A wee Irish blessing that seems

appropriate for this situation:

May the blessing of the rain beon you

the soft sweet rain.

May it fall upon your spirit

so that all the little flowers may

spring up,

and shed their sweetness on the

air.

May the blessing of the great

rains be on you,

may they beat upon your spirit

and wash it fair and clean,

and leave there many a shining

pool

where the blue of heavenshines,

and sometimes a star.

Just how I see it folks. Dont be

offended.

Naku noa na

Me rongo (In peace)

Darcy Kemp

Acting Principal

St Patricks School


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May the Year of Faithbe a time for allCatholics to renewtheir desire and zealfor the Eucharist and toavail themselvesregularly of theSacrament ofReconciliation andPenance.

During this Year of

Faith, may all Catholicspublically proclaimtheir love for Christ andhis Church.May this Year of Faithremind us of ways toserve those in ourmidst who areoverlooked, ignored orrejected, so that allmay experience thepeace and healing ofChrists love.

May the Holy Spiritguide the Churchduring the Year ofFaith so that allCatholics mayexperience adeepened renewal offaith, hope and love.

May young people beinspired by this Year ofFaith to listenattentively and respondto Gods call topriesthood andreligious life.

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The boat in the logo represents the Church.

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On the sails are the letters IHS, the first three letters of the Greek name forJesus.

Faith is the thing that we believe in and it is also the way by which we

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