Calendar Events
September 27-October 8 - Food Drive.
September 29 - Terry Fox donations are due
September 29 - St. Gabriel Feast Day and National Day for Truth and Reconciliation service at 11:30.
September 30 - School closed in recognition of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
October 7 - Thanksgiving liturgy at 11:30.
October 8 - Last day to donate to the food drive
October 8 - Evergreen PD Day. No school for Evergreen students
October 11 - Thanksgiving Monday - School is closed.
October 22 - GSACRD PD Day - No school for GSACRD students.
October 29 - Halloween Dress Up Day!
November 3 - Parent Teacher Interviews 5:00-8:00
November 4 - Remembrance Day liturgy at 11:45
November 4 - Parent Teacher Interviews 3:30-6:30
National Truth and Reconciliation Day - September 30
On September 29, the Online Learning Pathway and St. Gabriel Education Centre will recognize National Truth and Reconciliation Day with a service that will start at 11:30 and will last approximately 30 minutes. Students are encouraged to wear orange on this day.
The day honours the lost children and survivors of residential schools, their families and communities. Public commemoration of the tragic and painful history and ongoing impacts of residential schools is a vital component of the reconciliation process.
Orange Shirt Day is an Indigenous-led grassroots commemorative day that honours the children who survived Indian Residential Schools and remembers those who did not. This day relates to the experience of Phyllis Webstad, a Northern Secwpemc (Shuswap) from the Stswecem'c Xgat'tem First Nation, on her first day of school, where she arrived dressed in a new orange shirt, which was taken from her. It is now a symbol of the stripping away of culture, freedom and self-esteem experienced by Indigenous children over generations.
On September 30, we encourage all Canadians to wear orange to raise awareness of the very tragic legacy of residential schools, and to honour the thousands of Survivors.
Food Drive - September 27-October 8
"A portion of the harvest is set aside for the poor and the stranger"
Please bring in non-perishable food items or grocery gift cards for our food drive. All items will be going to support the people of several Indigenous communities that the Lac St. Anne parish serves.
Thanksgiving Liturgy
Online Learning Pathway Halloween!
ARISE! Get Up, Get Going and Go with God!
"Arise! I have appointed you as a witness of what you have seen!"
(Acts 26:16)
Our GSACRD Faith theme is in its second year of, "Arise! Get Up, Get Going and Go with God!"
This year, we are focusing on the "Get Going!" part of our theme. How do students, staff and parents know, model and witness Jesus Christ?
Saint Gabriel the Archangel
Saint Gabriel the Archangel - Patron Saint of messengers
Feast Day - September 29
On September 29, we will recognize our Patron Saint by offering prayers to St. Gabriel during our morning prayers.
Saint Gabriel serves as a messenger of God to the people. He is one of three Archangels whose feast day is celebrated on Sept. 29. Saint Gabriel shares his feast day with Saint Michael and St. Raphael. In the Old Testament, Saint Gabriel first appeared to Daniel to help him interpret his visions. In the New Testament, he appears again to Zacharias and tells him that Elizabeth, Zacharias' wife will give birth to a son called, John who will eventually go on to be called John the Baptist and he will baptize Jesus. In the gospel of Luke, Gabriel appears again to Mary to inform her that she will give birth to the Son of God and she will call him Jesus. Gabriel is considered to be the closest to God, to the point of being referred to as the "left hand of God". He brings God's messages to us in ways that we can understand so that we can listen with a pure heart and accept the will of God.
A Prayer to Saint Gabriel
O God,
who from among
all your angels chose
the Archangel Gabriel
to announce the mystery
of the Incarnation,
mercifully grant that
we who solemnly remember him
on earth may feel the benefit of
his patronage in heaven,
who lives and reigns
forever and ever.
Amen
October - The Month of the Rosary
WHY IS OCTOBER THE MONTH OF THE ROSARY?
October 7th is the memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary, sometimes referred to as the Feast of the Holy Rosary. The day was dedicated by St. Pius V who credited a victory over the invading Turks to the intercession of Mary through the rosary. Pope Benedict XVI described the image of Our Lady of the Rosary in a 2007 Angelus:
“The traditional image of Our Lady of the Rosary portrays Mary who with one arm supports the Child Jesus and with the other is offering the rosary beads to St Dominic. This important iconography shows that the Rosary is a means given by the Virgin to contemplate Jesus and, in meditating on his life, to love him and follow him ever more faithfully. It is this message that Our Lady has also bequeathed to us in her various apparitions.”
https://www.thereligionteacher.com/the-month-of-the-rosary-is-october/
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