Prayer Corner
We pray for these people in our community:
Gina Rubin-
mother of alumni
Jessica and Amanda
Fr. Jordan Bradshaw
St. Dominic pray for us.
If you or someone you know are in need of prayers, let us know and we will add them to our prayer list.
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Holy Rosary School
Dear Parents,
Tomorrow we are celebrating our Veterans from our community and all Veterans. The students are asked to wear Red, White & Blue tomorrow in celebration of our Veterans. We look forward to sharing the morning with the men and women who have served our country with town hall and then the Knights of Columbus will be joining us in providing breakfast for our guests.
This past Monday we celebrated Halloween. It was fun to see all of the wonderful costumes at the parade and the party/dance. Thank you for showing your Halloween spirit. We want to thank all of the parents who helped with the Halloween Spooktacular after school. A big thank you to our chairpersons Cathy Guzman and Lisa Vela, and to all of the staff who helped run a game. We hoped everyone had fun. We will be putting out a survey to receive your feedback on the Halloween party next week.
Congratulations to the First, Second and Third place teams in the 6th, 7th, and 8th grade Scarecrow contest.
Tim Hooke
There is no Choicelunch on November 21st. Togo's Lunch is available by pre-order only on this date.
Click here
for the Togo's order form.
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Thursday, November 3
Red, White & Blue Free Dress Day
* Jeans okay; shorts must be uniform shorts
8:15am - Veteran's Day Town Hall
* Veteran's please check in at the gym by 8:00am
Saturday, November 5
Sunday, November 6
Daylight Savings Time- Turn your clock back 1 hour
5th Grade Bread fundraiser ends
3pm - M.U.S.E. Band practice
8:15am - Faith Families
1st Grade Retreat
Last day to pre-order yearbook for $36
Veteran's Day Holiday: No School
Looking Ahead ...
Tuesday, November 15 ... 7th Grade Caritas Thanksgiving
Wednesday, November 16 ... Emergency Release Drill; Serendipity closed 8am
Thursday, November 17 ... Trimester 2 begins
Wednesday-Friday, November 23-25 ... No School - Thanksgiving Break
Wednesday, November 30 ... Uniform Sale; Barnes & Noble Night
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The last day to order a YEARBOOK
at the pre-sale price of $36
is Thursday, November 10th.
Price increases to $48
after Thursday, November 10th.
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Emergency Release Drill
On Wednesday, November 16 we will be having an Emergency Release Drill to practice our procedures if there is an emergency, such as a fire or earthquake, and the students cannot remain at school.
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Holy Rosary Parish
Ladies Christmas Dinner
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Fr. Roberto's Corner
Living with Imperfection
This coming Tuesday we are going to elect a new president for the United States. As Fr. Bart preached last weekend, both major party candidates and platforms espouse things that go against our Catholic faith. In other words, both candidates and both parties are imperfect. There is no perfect candidate or political party or country. There is no perfect church, no perfect community and no perfect family. Our challenge as disciples is learning how to live with imperfection - in ourselves and in others. Certainly, it is not easy. First of all, we must be careful not to be judgmental of others. Some of Jesus' harshest words were directed at the arrogance of the religious leaders of his time who were so judgmental toward the "unclean" sinners around them.
There is a very famous and insightful phrase that our Dominican brother, St. Thomas Aquinas coined: "grace builds on nature." In other words, God respects our nature, our basic predispositions and our DNA. He doesn't deny or annihilate our personality and identity when he works with us; instead he works with them and builds upon them - the good parts and the bad parts - to try and make us better. By nature, you and I have certain tendencies - again, good and bad - that are probably going to be with us for the rest of our lives. Now, obviously, we need to do our very best to grow, to improve and to stop any tendency we have to commit sin; but, for most of us, the temptation to revert to our sinful inclinations will always be somewhere close by. That is why recovering addicts live "a day at a time," and that is why we always have to have the humility that realizes that we are sinners who are never too far from falling.
One of the first things we must do to begin to overcome our imperfections is simply to admit we have them and know what they are. In some circles this is called "facing our shadow side." That is a huge first step. The people we often find hardest to deal with are those who don't even know they have issues or who refuse to acknowledge them. An essential element of being spiritually mature is developing the ability to see ourselves as we really are, our gifts and goodness as well as our problems and shadow side. The more we know ourselves, the more we will come to know God; and the more we know God, the more we will be able to see ourselves as we are. Very often, if we refuse to acknowledge our shadow side, i.e., if we deny our imperfections, we will end up projecting them onto others. Do you know anybody like that?
A great gift we have as Catholics that can help us battle our imperfections is the Sacrament of Reconciliation. If we utilize this sacrament well, it can really help us grow in self-knowledge and humility. But we must keep in mind that going to confession doesn't automatically or magically destroy our sins; rather it reconciles us with God, with others, with the Church and with ourselves by, among other things, helping us realize that we are a mixture of light and shadow, good and evil inclinations. This is the struggle and paradox with which every mature Christian must live.
And, just as we individuals have imperfections and unhealthy inclinations, so too does every human group and organization to which we belong, including our families, our schools, our parish, our Catholic Church, our country, our ethnic group, etc. Original sin and imperfection are everywhere. Therefore, we need to acknowledge these communal imperfections too and do our best to work with and improve them.
So, as we move forward after the election this Tuesday, let us continue to pray for our new president and other elected officials. As disciples, let us do our best to be patient with or own imperfections and those of others, and work together to bring the truth, love and goodness of God to our world.
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