Dear St. Louise Parish School Families,

The 2023-2024 school year is coming to a close and I would like to thank everyone for all the support in my first year as your Principal. I am so Blessed to be working with amazing faculty and staff and to be part of a great community with caring, respectful families and students. All of you played a part in making my first year a success. 

I look forward to summer, the upcoming 2023-2024 school year and working with you and the faculty and staff to ensure that St. Louise continues its tradition of excellence so that, our students enjoy learning and attending St. Louise each day. Our goal is to continue to assist families in the formation of their children as faith-filled people. We are a diverse community, we celebrate the whole child, and recognize that each person has a role in the Kingdom of God. Our school philosophy is, “We strive to form a community in which the presence of God is deeply experienced and to promote serving others as modeled by Jesus.” 

To plan for what’s ahead for the new school year, especially as it relates to any summer happenings and fall engagements, I ask our returning parents to please spend time now familiarizing yourself with the information that was given in your red envelope on June 1. In addition, I’ll be emailing you a few times during the summer, and Mindy and Tracy in the school office will be e-mailing you information materials in August to update you on summer news and remind you of upcoming deadlines. Please email me or office@stlouiseschool.org if you have any questions. Have a wonderful, restful, and safe summer!

God Bless!

Mr. Mike Fuerte

Principal 

St. Louise Parish School

Final School Days Will include Liturgy, Yearbooks, and Farewell Gifts

The end of the school year is tomorrow, Friday, June 16th, 2023! On this last day, we annually hold an end-of-year liturgy, followed by an all-school picnic. Please make sure to take a look at the flyer in the bulletin.

For the end-of-year liturgy earlier that morning, we are going to come together in church and announce surprise recipients of student and parent awards. We will also say goodbye to departing students and families as well as teachers and staff. All parents are welcome to join us during our morning liturgy at 10:30 am.

What we need ALL parents to do on this last day of the school year is to be aware school dismisses right after the liturgy! Your children will be bringing home their yearbooks (if you ordered them) and all their school supplies. Clear space in your vehicles! Then head out to your favorite picnic spot on the green lawn or if the weather is not great, we will open up the Parish Hall! 

If you would like to send your own "best wishes" to the departing teachers, you may drop off cards to the school office or directly email them. If you have any end-of-year gifts for your children's teachers and other faculty members, you may drop off them at the office too.

THANK YOU FOR FULFILLING YOUR COMMITMENTS

Log in those volunteer hours

Don’t forget to log in your 40 hours of volunteering. We still have many families that have not recorded their hours. Please make sure you log in at least 40 volunteer hours HERE by June 16. 

For those families who will not be able to log in at least 40 hours of volunteering, the fee for unworked hours this year is $21.50. So, for example, if one family recorded 0 volunteer hours, the school expects them to pay $860 by June. Whereas, if someone logged in 20 hours, the expectation is to pay $430. 

Please go HERE if you will need to pay a fee in lieu of fulfilling your volunteer hour commitment. We would appreciate the fee being paid before the end of the school year on June 16th.  

Annual Fund, Charger Cards, Auction and Walk-A-Thon: 

Besides your yearly commitment to give volunteer hours, school families also commit to supporting the Annual Fund, the Auction, Charger Cards and Walk-A-Thon. Outstanding payments can be pain online at the following links:

Annual Fund

Charger Card

Walk-A-Thon

Summer Learning, School Calendar & Supplies List

Last week your family should have received their summer learning packet in their Red Envelope. If you did not receive it, you can access copies HERE to see what your child SHOULD or MUST complete throughout June, July, and August. 

You also received next year’s school calendar and supplies list. You can access the supplies list HERE, and also subscribe to our virtual calendar by clicking subscribe in the upper right corner of our online calendar page HERE.

Announcement of Additional Faculty and Kids Club Change

Today, I would like to announce one more addition to our school faculty. I would like to announce our new Development Associate and as most of you know, she has been our Parents’ Club Treasurer for the past few years, and you have seen her on campus organizing the Father/Daughter Dance. Please welcome Silvia Macias as our new Development Associate. She will be working side by side with Linda Bowers as well as with the Administration Team and Auction Chairs. Here is a note from Silvia Macias:

Dear St. Louise families, 

I have been part of this amazing community for 7 years. I have 4 kids, Camila who graduated last year from St. Louise, Matias who is in 6th grade, Nico in 3rd grade, and Mariana in Pre-K. I have overseen the Father/Daughter Dance for the last 4 years; I have also served as the Parents' Club treasurer for the last 2 years and have volunteered in the classrooms and in different committees. Most of your kids know me because I have been subbing for Mrs. Sweeney while she is recovering from her knee injury.  

I’m very excited to start working in the development office, I’m very passionate about building community, and making everyone feel welcome. I hope I can serve the school community in this position. 

Sincerely,

Silvia Macias

Kids Club will have additional changes next year as Mr. Tyler Norman will be leaving to look for teaching position. Tyler has been training all year long at St. Louise to become a teacher. We wish Mr. Tyler Norman the best. Mr. Jesus Cruz will also be leaving and pursuing other endeavors. We both wish them the best and we will miss them at St. Louise. 

We are currently interviewing for the Counselor and Middle School Math Position. Our hope is to find the best candidate for both positions in the next few weeks.  

Congratulations Class of 2023!

"Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocracy. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch."

- St. John Paul II

Thank you Juan Gonzalez and Janey Rabon for these beautiful graduation photos!

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Dear Friends at St. Louise, 

Now that we have finished the post-Easter Solemnity celebrations of the Most Holy Trinity and the Body and Blood of Christ, we are back to using the color green on Sundays and are fully into what we call “Ordinary Time” in the liturgical calendar. It doesn’t mean ordinary in the sense of “ho-hum”! Rather, Ordinary Time is simply time other than the “extraordinary” times of Advent/Christmas and Lent/Easter. The Church’s liturgical year includes several Solemnities – a solemnity is a feast day of the highest rank, celebrating a mystery of faith such as the Trinity, an event in the life of Jesus, the Blessed Virgin Mary, or important saints. The Solemnity of Christ the King, in November, concludes each liturgical year. Just to keep us on our toes, for Solemnities that fall during Ordinary Time, we break out the white vestments again and interrupt the usual cycle of readings and prayers for Ordinary Time. 

I will write a series of columns for several Sundays of Ordinary Time about an extraordinary book of the Bible, the Book of Revelation, to drive home that very point – that there is nothing “ordinary” about our faith. Everything is grand, wonderful, beautiful, mysterious, and beyond our ability to fully comprehend. The idea for this series came as a suggestion from one of our friends at St. Louise. 

This week I will simply begin with the notion that the last book of the Bible, Revelation, belongs to the literary genre called “apocalyptic literature.” It is important to think of the Bible as a library of different, separate books that we believe to be inspired by the Holy Spirit. In broad terms, the Pentateuch (our Bible’s first five books), the prophets, the psalms, the Gospels, the letters, all are examples of different literary genres. We approach each with an understanding of what genre, what type of literature, we are reading – as when we check out a book from the library, we read a book of poetry differently than a history book or a novel. We don’t read the Gospels, which tell of Jesus’ saving action for us, in the same way as we read the Psalms, which are songs of prayer and praise to God.

Apocalyptic literature is not unique to the last book of the Bible – in fact, it has its roots in Old Testament prophecy like we find in the books of Daniel and Zechariah. “The apocalyptic literature deals with the final period of world history and the world catastrophe; here the powers of evil make the supreme struggle against God and are finally routed after a dreadful and bloody combat. These powers, allegorically described, are the world powers of contemporary history, which in apocalyptic literature is the last of the world periods before the end.” (John McKenzie, S.J., Dictionary of the Bible, p. 42) 

In that description, notice the phrase allegorically described. Christians throughout the centuries have tried to use Revelation, in light of then-contemporary events, to predict the day and hour for the end of time. They have always been wrong! The reason we approach this literature in the Bible as allegory rather than prediction comes from Jesus himself, who told us: “But of that day or hour, no one knows, neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. Be watchful, be alert! You do not know when the time will come.” (Mark 13:32 33) Jesus’ warning is an excellent guide for us in reading apocalyptic literature in the Bible. 

Fr. Gary Zender

Fr. Gary and Fr. Nehnevaj will be away June 19 22 for the annual Priest Days gathering at Ocean Shores. Communion services are scheduled for that Monday-Thursday at the usual daily Mass times. This year the conferences will focus on giving the priests a spiritual grounding for times of transition, and also an opportunity to give further input on the process for “Partners in the Gospel.” Parishioners will have their opportunity for giving input on this process in late September and early October. 

"You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so you learn to love God and man by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves."

- St. Francis de Sales

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