The Monarch Minute: CSW

from Fr. Timmerman

Catholic Schools Week 2019 began with an All System K-12 Mass with Bishop Conley as our main celebrant and homilist. All of our students and staff are praying for you and your intentions, especially in thanksgiving for your support of our Catholic schools. While we had a lot of fun activities throughout the week, we are specifically grateful for the great many people who give and sacrifice so much for the Catholic education of our children.

To all of those unseen and often not thanked enough individuals, who support our Catholic Schools, please know how grateful we are. For the parents who volunteer and serve in many capacities in school life, thank you. For the parish members who financially support Aquinas and St. Mary's, even though they don't have family currently attending, thank you. For the priests who teach children the most important thing in life, thank you. For all of the volunteers with both large and small duties, thank you. For the praying grandparent, thank you. For the teachers, who go above and beyond what their paycheck shows, thank you.

January 27 - February 2

Catholic School education is an investment. Many families work hard to cover the cost of tuition because they value faith-filled formation and quality academics
for their children.

Thank you to

our Parishes

our Community

our Students

our Nation

our Religious

our Faculty, Staff and Volunteers

our Families

for supporting our Catholic Schools!

St. Mary's Students are celebrating Catholic Schools Week

Faith & Service

Sharing the Burden

The Aquinas seniors visited Pius X High School in Lincoln on Jan. 9th to present their senior theology class project. The seniors are fundraising money to film a documentary about the Christians blockaded inside the Gaza Strip through the organization Brother's Keeper. Fast Fact: The Gaza Strip is 139 square miles long with a population of 2,000,000 compared to Butler County which is 591 square miles with a population of 8,000.

Read more about the seniors involvement with the Gaza Strip here.

SEEK 2019

Eighteen Aquinas students attended the Focus sponsored SEEK Conference in Indianapolis, from Jan. 3-7, to learn and grow in their faith. More here.

March for Life in DC

Aquinas Catholic brought 39 students to join the Diocese of Lincoln that traveled to Washington D.C. to march for LIFE. The Catholic News Agency, wrote a nice article about our pro-life pilgrims, who traveled on a bus for 24 hours to participate.

Academics

Class of 2019

14 Students have an ACT score 25-26

16 Students have an ACT score 27-29

9 Students have an ACT Score of 30 or above

Fine Arts

Speech

The Monarchs were Runner-Ups at the Louisville and Wayne Speech Meets on Jan. 26. You can find all the medalists here! Good luck on the rest of the season!

Honor Band

Maggie Svec, Maria Pytlik and Elizabeth Aschoff were selected by audition to perform in the Wayne State Honor Band on Sat, Jan. 26.

Award

Mr. Grady was presented with a special award in coaching during the Raymond Central Speech Meet. Congratulations!

Athletics

When faith and athletics meet...

Trevor Weiss, St. Mary's 4th grade teacher, is in his first year as Aquinas boys basketball head coach. His dad, Mike Weiss, is the veteran boys basketball head coach at Bishop Neumann. Trevor's mom had a special shirt made when Aquinas and Neuman went head to head.

Boone Central Champs

Read all of the results here.

- CONGRATS-

Joe Reimers on his 150 win!

State Dual Runner-Up

The Monarchs defeated David City in the first dual to wrestle in the championship dual against Broken Bow. All results here.

Boys Basketball

The Monarchs have been working hard the whole season with a current record of 9-9. You can watch an interview with Coach Weiss after the 64-49 win over Lutheran High Northeast.

Girls Basketball

Lady Monarchs are having a stellar season with a current record of 15-4. Watch the interview with Coach Smith after the 46-33 win over Lutheran High Northeast.

St. Mary's Elementary

Robotics Teams Compete

Aquinas & St. Mary's Catholic Schools brought three teams to compete in the Nebraska FIRST LEGO League Competition on January 12 at Columbus Middle School.

This STEM based competition featured 40 teams, grades 4-8, to apply science, technology, engineering and math skills to solve problems. Every team has three main scores: core, project, and robot competition. Most are familiar with the robot competition; where each team builds a programmable robot, using Lego bricks, to complete certain tasks on a table-top playing field. Follow this link to WATCH the robot in action.

The MonarchBots are heading to State on Feb. 16 at the Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum in Ashland. Congratulations to The Saints and Mario's Bots for an outstanding job well done.