St. Michael's News
January 5th, 2024
Happy New Year
May your home be filled with love, laughter, and God's grace this year. We wish you many blessings and joyful times throughout the year ahead.
Our Virtue Focus for the month of January - Self-Control
During this month of January we celebrate the virtue of self-control. Self-control helps us to resist the temptation to do something that we will regret. It also helps us to resist the temptation to do something that will harm ourselves or others. Each time you exercise self-control you grow stronger in the Lord and invite peace to settle over life as you avoid any guilt you may feel from having made a poor decision.
Show me your ways, O Lord, and teach me your paths. -- St. Francis de Sales
A person with self-control...
† is patient
† knows how to wait his or her turn
† can calm him or herself down and think before reacting to situations
† knows how to avoid physical aggression (hitting, kicking, pushing, etc.)
† can think things through
† applies effective communication, decision making, problem-solving & resource management skills
Let us pray for the virtue of self-control so that we will resist the temptation to cause harm to ourselves or to others around us. AMEN
Upcoming Events and Activities
January Family Mass
Our January Family Mass will be the 8:30 AM Mass on January 14th. We encourage as many of our families as possible to join us. Our choir will lead us in song as we come together to rejoice. We look forward to seeing you there.
Sunday, Jan 14, 2024, 08:30 AM
St. Michael's Parish
New Student Applications
Applications for new student registration for the 2024-2025 school year are now open. If you have a child at St. Michaels and have a sibling entering in September, please contact Mrs. DeJulius to ensure we have their name added to our sibling list.
Registration forms for new families can be found on our school website https://www.stmichaelschool.ca/how-to-apply/
Basketball Season
The CISVA basketball season runs through January and February for Grades 5, 6, and 7. All games and practices have been added to the school Athletics Calendar. Please see the link below. We look forward to cheering on all six St. Michael's teams. As always, we are grateful to the coaches, teachers, and parents who help ensure our students have the opportunity to participate in the league.
First Confession
Please continue to pray for those students receiving the sacrament of First Reconciliation on Wednesday, January 17th.
PEC News
February & March Hot Lunch
Place your order now so you don't foget and miss the cut off. Order cut off and payments due: Tuesday, January 23.
Credit card is accepted anytime online. Drop off cash and cheques directly to the school office.
Please ensure your remittance form is included with your payment as it has all the information for your payment to be applied to your order.
Thank you for your support!
St. Michael's PA
Auction News
Start Collecting Those Bottles
The Annual General Meeting is coming up on February 8th, and it’s a tradition for school parents to bring bottles of wine and fine spirits to the meeting to support the Auction. So if you have any bottles left over from the holiday season, maybe pick up an extra bottle or two for the Auction!
Big Boxes Needed
If you end up giving (or getting) a large item for Christmas (like a TV, major appliance, or furniture), don’t dispose of the cardboard box! The Auction decorating crew would love to take those boxes and transform them into decorations for Auction night. If you have a box you’d like to donate, please text Maria at 778-881-0922.
Jan 8th: Return to school
Jan 9th: Confession for Grade 7
Jan 12th: 9 am School Mass; 3-3:30 pm Used Uniform Store
Jan 14th: 8:30 am Family Mass
Jan 16th: Confession for Grade 6
Jan 17th: Gr. 2 First Confession
Jan 19th: School Mass
Jan 22nd: Gr. 4 Ski Day
Jan 23rd: Confession for Gr. 5, Gr. 3 Assembly at 9:15 am; PEC Meeting following the 7:30 pm Mass
Jan 25th: Non-Uniform Day
Jan 26th: Professional Development Day No school
Dear Lord,
We pray that this New Year will bring us closer to You.
May we take the time to get to know You.
Help us to truly celebrate the gifts You have graciously given us
and use them to serve You and spread Your word,
May we also see and love you in all the people we meet,
so that in turn, they can see You in us.
We know that all human relations take time
if they are to grow and deepen.
This is also true of our relations with You,
the Father and the Holy Spirit,
which must grow over the course of our lives.
In this new year,
let us realize that every action of ours
no matter how great or small
enables us to be in touch with You.
Let us accept You in our lives,
in the way it pleases You,
as Truth, to be spoken,
as Life, to be lived,
as Light, to be lighted,
as Love, to be followed,
as Joy, to be given,
as Peace, to be spread about,
as Sacrifice, to be offered among our relatives,
friends, neighbours and all people.
Amen.