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Dear Families and Friends of OLQP:
It's beginning to look a lot like Fall Festival at OLQP. The halls are filling up with auction items donated by friends of OLQP. Long-time supporters are circling back around to purchase raffle tickets. Families are signing up to sell tickets and meeting family goals (and exceeding those goals in many cases!). Room parents along with teachers and helpers are creating amazing class projects made unique by the special touch of the students in the class. My mother used to say, "Many hands make light the work." It takes everyone working together to achieve the success enjoyed year after year in support of this beautiful school. The revenue generated is an important result. These funds enable the school to keep tuition more affordable - a difference of over $1,000 per student.
There is a less apparent result from all of these efforts. Families are working together. Lifetime friendships are being forged. Community is being celebrated. There are some things that can't be monetized. To what better purpose can everyone be brought together than this? We are on a mission from God. Working together to bring about the Kingdom of God by honoring Our Lord and Blessed Mother while forming the leaders (and saints) of tomorrow.
Thank you for being part of the mission and ministry of Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic School.
Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam,
Mrs. Marianne Mechura, M.Ed.
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Counting Our Blessings
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Mrs. Gonzales, Mrs. Thomas, and 8th
graders for leadership during raffle rallies.
╈ OLQP families who are supporting Fall Festival by signing up to work, creating and/or donating both live and silent auction items, selling raffle tickets, and inviting their friends and family.
╈ All the students who are putting in the time, effort, and interest in selling raffle tickets.
╈ Thanks to TJ's Lube Stop and Jeremy Miska for the use of the lifts for work in Marian Hall (gym)
╈ Thanks to Heritage Bank for the donation of an automated screen and ceiling mounted projector for Marian Hall.
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Did You Know?
Leaders in Training
At OLQP, students have many opportunities to develop as leaders. In lower elementary, students have jobs in their classroom and are challenged to contribute to a culture of mutual support and personal responsibility. In middle school, the opportunities increase to include: Student Council, National Jr. Honor Society, prayer leaders, mentors, Service Club, and in athletics.
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Blessing of the Pets
On Wednesday, October 3, OLQP will host the second annual blessing of the pets, weather permitting. This custom is conducted in remembrance of Saint Francis of Assisi's love for all creatures.
Francis, whose feast day is October 4th, loved the larks flying about his hilltop town. He and his early brothers, staying in a small hovel, allowed themselves to be displaced by a donkey. St. Francis wrote a Canticle of the Creatures, an ode to God's living things. "All praise to you, Oh Lord, for all these brother and sister creatures." Most of us have been blessed by the pets in our lives. Our good and gracious God planned it so. The Blessing of Pets usually goes like this:
"Blessed are you, Lord God, maker of all living creatures. You called forth fish in the sea, birds in the air and animals on the land. You inspired Saint Francis to call all of them his brothers and sisters. We ask you to bless this pet. By the power of your love, enable it to live according to your plan. May we always praise you for all your beauty in creation. Blessed are you, Lord our God, in all your creatures! Amen."
If you plan to attend, click here for important information about logistics.
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Save the Date!
OLQP Fall Festival
October 21, 2018 11am-4pm at the
Lake Jackson Civic Center.
Please sign-up at a local church or business to sell your $500 allotment.
Help us fill the Halls at OLQP! Please consider donating to the silent or live auctions. Donations may be dropped at the front desk. If you need a donation receipt, please email [email protected].
Volunteer at the Fall Festival. There are many different options for you. OLQP Jr. High students and former OLQP students in High School can earn service hours by volunteering! Click
Here to sign-up!
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STAY CONNECTED!
Remind
(OLQP class code @2hekcc)
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Mark your Calendars:
OLQP T-shirt/Jeans Day
JV/V Volleyball Games - Away
October 2
Soccer Game - Home
October 3
Blessing of the Pets 8am
Varsity Volleyball Game - Home
October 4
Raffle Ticket Turn-In Day
Soccer Game - Away
October 5
Childern's Mass 10am
October 7
Choir at St. Mary's Mass 9am
October 8
In-service Day
No School
October 9
Living Rosary - 8am
Soccer Game - Home
October 10
Volleyball Game - Home
October 11
Raffle Ticket Turn-In Day
October 12
Children's Mass 10am
Early Dismissal
PK only at 12:45
K-8 with PK siblings 1pm
Volleyball Away Game
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