December 4th - HSPT class - 8th grade 5-6pm
December 6th - St. Nicolas Feast Day
December 6th - First Fun Friday - 1:20 pm
December 11th - HSPT class - 8th grade 5-8pm
December 12th - PTO Meeting @ 8:00 am
December 12th - Christmas Advent Program @ 6:30pm
December 13th - ECC Gingerbread Day 11am
December 13th - 8th Grade Christmas Dance
December 19th - 5th Grade Field Trip-Symphony 9:45am
December 20th - Beginning of Christmas Break for STCS-Noon Dismissal
December 20th - ECC Christmas Church Advent Program-10:30am-12pm
December 25th - Christmas Day- Our Lord's Birthday
January 6th, 2020 - First Day for School to Resume
January 8th - HSPT class - 8th grade 6-8pm
January 20th - No School- Martin Luther King Day
January 23rd - 1st grade Field Trip
January 26th - Beginning of Catholic Schools Week
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Inspirations from Our Staff
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The Season of Advent-
1st Sunday-The light of Hope!
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Our faith is centered on this special season. Our staff had some wonderful reflections on hope that are worth reflecting on....
Advent tells us that it is okay to hope. Yes, your hopes might be frustrated, but that is better than trying to extinguish hope in God, in others and in life itself. Not hoping grinds against our grain, because we were created to hope. Hope is the first evidence, the first real experience that we have of God. Advent reminds us that hope runs deeper than our own humanity. Hope is of God
Don’t want to pray, because you are worried that no one is listening? Go ahead and try again. It is okay to hope.
Father Terrance Klein
Once you choose hope, anything’s possible. –
Christopher Reeve
That first candle is what excites for what is to come~HOPE
Don't we always turn to Jesus when we need help with the "HOPE" that he will never fail us?
We HOPE for better days because of him!
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Great News for STCS!
Tuition Incentives for the 2020-2021 School Year
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Option 1:
Families enrolling in Saint Theresa Catholic School for the first time during the November 1, 2019 to May 31, 2020 enrollment period will receive a 50% sibling tuition discount for the second (or more) student(s) enrolling for the 2020-2021 school year.
Option 2:
Families enrolling in Saint Theresa Catholic School for the first time before January 15, 2020 will enroll at the 2019-2020 tuition rate. Although the 2020- 2021 tuition rate has not been announced, it is anticipated that tuition will rise. If tuition is lower for the 2020-2021 school year, tuition for families enrolling before January 15, 2020 will receive a 1% tuition discount based on the lower tuition rate.
Option 3:
Current families enrolling a second child in grades K-5th at Saint Theresa Catholic School for the first time before January 15, 2020 will receive a 50% tuition discount for the 2020-2021 school year.
The discounts are currently only available for the 2020-2021 school year. Please contact the admissions office at 602-586-7490 for additional information.
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Families for Caring
- Important Dates and Volunteer Opportunities
There is still time to pick an ornament and buy a gift to help make Christmas brighter for the less fortunate. Please bring all gifts back to the church by Sunday, December 15th.
In addition to providing gifts, volunteers are needed to help with wrapping and delivering the gifts. Please mark your calendar and join us for the following:
Wrapping party: Saturday, December 21st from 9:00am - 1:00pm in the Msgr. McMahon Gym - All our welcome! Bring the whole family and celebrate the spirit of giving together.
Gift Deliveries: Sunday, December 22nd after morning mass.
Any time you can donate to either wrapping or gift deliveries is greatly appreciated! This is also a great opportunity for students that need service hours.
For questions please contact Anne Vogel at 602-315-0130
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Accreditation Visit
Special Thank you!
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On Thursday, the Accreditation Visiting Team will be sharing their report and recommendations with the Faculty and Staff. The visiting team has been hard at work visiting classrooms, reviewing hundreds of documents, and interviewing students, parents, faculty and leadership leaving no stone unturned. Their work has been made easier by the hospitality of PTO who have served breakfast, lunch, snacks, and dinner to the visiting team.
Thank you
to
Jaclyn Posta, Angela Franchini and Christopher and Melissa Collins
for taking such good care of our guests.
The visiting team met with the School Advisory Board at a Tuesday Night Dinner provided by the Collins family.
Arcadia Catering
was the talk of the evening, having provided a delicious meal that was enjoyed by all. Check out the source of this exceptional dining experience by clicking on logo.
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Now is the time to clear out your bookshelves and donate your gently used books to the ECC!!
Drop off your
ALL
your used books at the front office or
at the Little Flower ECC this week!!
We are still collecting
all kinds of books
for our upcoming book fair.
We'll be hosting a used book sale in December,
outside our building, before and after school. Come shop for some new treasures. All books will be $1 and proceeds will go to the
Little Flower Early Childhood Center.
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MARK YOUR CALENDARS! GET YOUR FOURSOME
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Please save the date! This year we will launch the Dads' Club Golf Outing with a
Kick off Party on November 22nd
! The actual golf tournament will be held on
March 13th.
A big thank you to Brett Martin, Tim Reardon, and Thomas McCormack for chairing the event!
See the attached flyer for details!
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IMPORTANT PARISH NEWS
The Season of Advent
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Boy Scout Fund Raiser!!
December 12th 10:30am-10:00PM
Need dinner before the
Advent Program
make it easier on yourself , Help Boy Scouts out and at the same time getting a delicious pizza .
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REFLECTIONS FROM FATHER CHUCK
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December 1- Advent Begins!
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My Brothers and Sisters,
We begin a new Liturgical Year this weekend as we celebrate the First Sunday of Advent. In this coming Year of Grace, we will celebrate anew the “whole mystery of Christ, from his incarnation until the day of Pentecost and the expectation of his coming again” (from the General Norms of the Liturgical Year and Calendar, § 17). For you liturgy buffs, this means that we start “Cycle A” Sunday readings again, having brought “Cycle C” to a conclusion with yesterday’s (Saturday’s) morning Mass readings. The three Sunday cycles of the Lectionary, each a year long, allow Catholics to cover an extraordinary (and fairly complete) overview of the Bible in the course of a three-year period by simply showing up – and of course participating – in Sunday and holy day Masses. Add the two year cycle of weekday Mass readings to that, and one has a practically exhaustive look at both the Old and New Testaments. And who said Catholicism isn’t a Bible-based religion? That’s simply not true!
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Important Message-
Priests around the country have reported a scam in which parishioners have received text messages and e-mails supposedly from their priest, asking the parishioner for emergency help – usually in the form of purchasing gift cards – and then signing off with the priest’s name. This is a scam – do not fall for it! Your priests at St. Theresa do not send texts of this sort – if you receive such a text, please copy the text and forward it to “SPAM” (7726) free of charge to file a complaint.
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Faith In Action
#allthingswithgreatlove
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Grateful hearts all over campus!
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Annual 8th Grade/1st Grade Thanksgiving Feast with buddies!
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Gratitude is contagious whether big or small!
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8th grade boys are off to a great start in Basketball! An undefeated season so far, with a big victory over St Francis yesterday!
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3rd Graders having fun with Mr. Cruz in computers!
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A League of Their Own! Our combo 5th/6th grade Softball team
is off to a great start this season! They defeated OLMC yesterday by 1 run!! Way to go ladies!!
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