Dear Families,

Our 3rd Annual Trunk or Treat will be next Monday on Halloween. If you will be decorating your trunks, Adriana Alvarez and Julia Lacouture have sent out an email with specific information for the event. Please look out for the email. 

This Tuesday, November 1, is All Saints’ Day, and there will be a parish Mass at 9:00AM. You can find more information about All Saints’ Day here. We will have our All-Saints’ Day Mass at 9am on Tuesday, November 1st, 2022. All families are invited to attend. 

Wednesday, November 2, is All Souls’ Day. All Souls Day is a holy day set aside for honoring the dead. According to Catholic.org:

“The day is primarily celebrated in the Catholic Church, but it is also celebrated in the Eastern Orthodox Church and a few other denominations of Christianity. According to Catholic belief, the soul of a person who dies can go to one of three places. The first is heaven, where a person who dies in a state of perfect grace and communion with God goes. The second is hell, where those who die in a state of mortal sin are naturally condemned by their choice. The intermediate option is purgatory, which is thought to be where most people, free of mortal sin, but still in a state of lesser (venial) sin, must go. Consistent with these teachings and traditions, Catholics believe that through the prayers of the faithful on Earth, the dead are cleansed of their sins so they may enter into heaven.”

Friday, November 11, is Veterans Day. This year, we will be honoring our Veterans with the entire school, by holding a Mass at 9am. All families and Veterans are invited. We will have a special blessing for our Veterans. Thank you to 6A for preparing for the special Mass. 

Open House and Admissions Season

While it seems like we just started the school year, we are actually already busily preparing for the 2023-2024 Admissions Season! Even though we employ many advertising avenues, when it comes down to it, year-after-year, our best promotional product is YOU, our current school parents!

When we ask prospective new school parents how they heard about St. Louise, the most popular answer is, "My neighbor/friend/co-worker/ attends St. Louise said we should check it out." It is with that reality that we have a few incentives to encourage our current school parents to continue to recommend St. Louise School to those you know with children between the ages of 4-14.

• Our first incentive is to provide one-month's free tuition (at our in-parish one-child rate) to a school family who refers a new family that chooses to enroll at St. Louise. When new families apply for admission, they can choose how they heard about St. Louise and if your name is listed as the referral-source, you get that free tuition (valued at over $789)!
• Another incentive is tied to our Open Houses. We hold two in-person Open Houses throughout this admissions season. We suggest that current school parents not only encourage a prospective new school parent to schedule a visit, but that they also sign up for an Open House which they can do online HERE.. When prospective families sign up for the Open House they again have the opportunity to let us know how they heard about St. Louise. If they list you as their referral to the Open House and they attend, you will receive a $10 Starbucks card.

Our first Open House is Thursday, November 3, from 6:00-7:30PM. Please consider asking your neighbor/friend/co-worker with an upcoming preschool to 8th grade student to attend the Open House with you.

Note the following dates of Open Houses: November 3 and January 26 (6:00pm-7:30pm)

We hope that you will take some time over the coming days to spread the word and share your family’s St. Louise story. With all of you and your continued support we will continue to welcome more great families while growing our enrollment.

Congratulations to Melanie G. for answering my quiz question from last week first and correct. She will receive an Amazon Gift Card. 

Trivia Question: 1st and 10th parent that could e-mail me the answer to the following question will get a Gift Card: 

Question: St. Louise with St. Vincent started a charity in 1642, what was the name of that charity?

Have a Blessed Weekend!

Principal Mike Fuerte

Donations & Drives

Dear Friends at St. Louise, 

I am writing this column on the first full day after my return from the Holy Land pilgrimage. There were many blessings in visiting the sacred sites where Jesus was born, lived, died, rose again, and ascended to the right hand of the Father. One of the most impactful for me personally was the Garden of Gethsemane. Our guide, Johnny, explained to us that the “Rock of Agony,” which is venerated as the place where Jesus sweated blood, is almost without a doubt truly the place where he asked his Father that the cup of torture, humiliation and death pass him by – but that not his own will, but his Father’s will be done. The rock is now located the base of the altar of the chapel at the Garden of Gethsemane and is worn smooth by the many pilgrims who have touched the rock. As I bent down on my knees to do the same, I found that I was moved with profound emotion and gratitude for what Jesus did for me, for you, and for the salvation of the entire world. Johnny said that we can firmly claim that this particular rock is the authentic site because it is consistent with the description in the Bible, because the garden is small, so it would be difficult to confuse it with somewhere else, and because the same rock has been venerated by Christians since the earliest times of Christian tradition. 

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In deep gratitude to Jesus and for you, 

Fr. Gary Zender

"Our good God has his time and moments for everything. Do not believe that things will always be as they are now."

— St. Louise de Marillac

Students at Seattle Math Games!

 Mr. Glaser’s 6th grade class helped Mrs. Hoffman’s PreK class make Halloween ghost handprint cards for patients at Marian wood Nursing Home as a joint service project.

Field Trip at the WA state Corn Maze with our 4th Graders

Fourth grade students demonstrated their growth mindset skills during the first makerspace of the year.

They created rafts from 10 straws and 15 stickers. Teams tested the strength of their rafts by adding pennies to the rafts in floating water. Students were graded on how well they interact with each other, using positive statements, and not on how strong their raft was. 

Widodo Karli Family

Antezana Family

Antezana