April 6, 2018

Another week of excellence at St. Rose School! We are very blessed with wonderful teachers, students, staff, parents and supporters giving their all each and every day for the success of our children! It’s crunch time to complete curriculum and projects for the school year. The second graders did a beautiful job on their first confession Wednesday in preparation for First Commun-ion later this month. They along with their parents were led in a mini retreat the evening before by their Religion teacher Mrs. Oeding. Yesterday students and staff wore Turtle Wing shirts and did classroom presentations in support of Autism Month. The school family gathered after mass at the Jack Hooper Prayer garden for a prayer service led by the 8th grade. On the athletic side the coaches are getting our softball teams ready for tourna-ments tomorrow at OLV and then next Saturday here at St. Rose. If anyone can help with the St. Rose Tourna-ment please do; it’s a big job for our booster club and coaches to coordinate. Please continue to read news-letters, emails and check the calendar to keep up with all events and activities for the remainder of the year. We try our best to keep you updated with all information.

THE OCTAVE OF EASTER: The celebration of Our Lord’s Resurrection continues in the Church for eight days, called the Octave of Easter. Each day of the Octave is ranked as a Solemnity in the Church’s liturgical calendar, the highest ranking of liturgical feasts. At Masses during the Octave of Easter, as on Sundays, the Gloria, is recited or sung. At the end of each Mass of the Octave, the double Alleluia is sung at dismissal. The idea of an Octave of a great feast has roots in the Old Testa-ment. There are many Jewish feasts that lasted for eight days, such as the feast of Passover and the feast of Tab-ernacles. In the Catholic Church, we celebrate eight days of Christmas as well as eight days of Easter. The Gospel readings at Masses during the Octave of Easter include passages from the Gospels that relate various appear-ances of the Risen Jesus. Reflecting on these Gospel texts is a wonderful way to prolong the celebration of Easter. Each day during the Octave, we proclaim in the Gospel Acclamation: This is the day the Lord has made; let us be glad and rejoice in it. The Octave of Easter ends on the Second Sunday of Easter, the Sunday of Divine Mercy.

In the Jubilee Year 2000, at the Mass in which he canonized the humble religious Sister Faustina Kow-alska, Saint John Paul II declared from then on through-out the Church the Second Sunday of Easter would also be called the Sunday of Divine Mercy. This is entirely ap-propriate since, as Saint John Paul II reminded us, “Divine Mercy is “the Easter gift the Church receives from the risen Christ and offers to humanity….” Saint John Paul II frequently reminded us “mercy is an indis-pensable dimension of love.” He would refer to mercy as “love’s second name.” God’s love was revealed and ac-

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tualized as mercy. We see this in the life, death, and resur-rection of Jesus. And this is what we are called to live and actualize today in our lives and in the life of the Church. Our Lord told Saint Faustina three ways we are called to exercise mercy toward our neighbors: by deed, by word, and by pray-er. To love as Jesus loved includes practicing mercy towards others. Jesus taught us in the Beatitudes: Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. At Mass on the Sunday of Divine Mercy, we will hear the Gospel account of Our Lord’s appearance to the apostles on the night of the first Easter Sunday. When He appeared to them, the Risen Jesus showed them his hands and his side. He showed them his glorious wounds. These wounds reveal the divine mercy. And then Our Lord imparted to his apostles his own power to for-give sins and entrusted to them and their successors the ministry of reconciliation when he said to them: Receive the Holy Spirit. Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them, and whose sins you retain are retained. In the sacrament of Rec-onciliation, we have a blessed opportunity to experience the divine mercy in a powerful way through the forgiveness of our sins. We encounter our merciful Savior through the min-istry of his priests. Through Saint Faustina, our Lord promised an abundance of graces to the faithful who devoutly observe the Sunday of Divine Mercy. There are various devotional practices revealed through Saint Faustina: the Chaplet of Di-vine Mercy, the image of Divine Mercy, and the simple pray-er: Jesus, I trust in you. These devotions help us to put mercy into action in our lives, to live the Beatitude: Blessed are the merciful. (todayscatholic.org)

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: ITBS Testing, HSA Mtg 6:30 FLC

Tuesday: ITBS Testing

Wednesday: ITBS Testing concludes, Flag Day Posters Due

Thursday: Mass 4, Mother Seton Awards Dinner

Friday: 6 & 3 visit NHs

The following volunteer students helped serve at our Gala: Grant Kubala, Kaidon Antosh, Annie Gallipp, Brysen Brown Kenny Schramek, Selah Waltz, Creed Waltz, Alex Jimenez

Arely Montalvo, Aly Zbranek, Presley Sommer Makena Kopecky, Blaine Zapalac, Ethan Steinhauser Hayden Schulz, Nathan Olsovsky, Meredith Magliolo

Amanda Tofel

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Mon. April 9 - Wed. April 11

Ensure a proper bed time &

eat a healthy breakfast!

The Cardinal softball teams will participate in the OLV tournament this weekend in Victoria. The tournament will be played at the Field of Dreams located at 704 E. Mesquite. The 5th & 6th grade boys will play at 10:30, the 7th & 8th grade boys will play at 11:30 and the 5th & 6th grade girls will play at 10:00. Please check with the coach for the time that the players need to be at the fields.

Mon, April 23 thru Thurs, April 25 M-W 7:30-12:30 Thur 7:30-3:30

2018 Catholic Daughter’s Education Contest

Court St. Rose #1597 Division 1 (Grades 4-5) Division 2 (Grades 6-8) Division3 (9-12) Division 4

Essay 1st: Madison Kunschick Brysen Brown CDA members

2nd Avery Helms Selah Waltz

3rd Cooper Demel Blake Helms

Poetry 1st Jamison Bennett Joseph Goodwyne Peggy Kalich

2nd Grace Schramek Alex Barnhill

3rd Myrannda Slaton Blake Helms

Art 1st Claire Oeding Presley Sommer

2nd Ty Lewis Mariah Rosales

3rd Tyson Wagner Seth Fogleman

Photography

1st Grant Kubala Julia Oeding Jeannie Mican

2nd Meredith Magliolo

3rd Zoe Norman

St. Rose Catholic Daughters of the Americas #1597 recently held their annual Education Contest.

The contest is open to students in grades 4-12, along with a division for CDA members. There were 187

entries this year. Special thank you to the judges, retired art and language arts teachers, who volunteer

their time to do this.

The winners and their families were invited to a reception on Monday, April 2 at 6:30 pm at the St.

Rose Family Life Center meeting room. Certificates and cash prizes were award to the winners. All first

place entries were forwarded to the State Education Contest, and the first place from those entries will

advance to the National Contest.

2017-18 St. Rose School Yearbook

LAST CHANCE TO ORDER

ORDERS MUST BE RECEIVED BY FRIDAY April 20

Each class 3K-8 equally represented

yearbooks are $60 each

I would like to order ________ yearbook(s). Cost ______

Student Name ____________________________

Student Name ____________________________

Student Name ____________________________

The Yearbook class thanks you for support in helping to preserve

school memories for generations to come!!

For office use only:

Date payment received: __________ Cash__________ Check_________

Family Name____________________ Grade _________

Turn in to Schulenburg Printing by July 6, 2018.