SPB Family Newsletter
February 24, 2022
Mission Statement
The Eucharistic community of Saint Paschal Baylon Catholic School
focuses on Christ-centered values and develops the unique potential of each student
through a rigorous and engaging curriculum.
Plan for Make-up Day IF NEEDED
Calendar of Events
Monday, February 28
Tuesday, March 1
LifeAct Program-Grade 7
Box Tops Dress Down Day
Wednesday, March 2
Ash Wednesday
LifeAct Program-Grade 7
All School Mass--9:00 am
Honor & Harmony Program--Grade 5
GCCTM Grade 6 Practice--2:30-3:15 pm
GCCTM Practice--Grades 7/8--2:30-3:15 pm
PTO Meeting---7:00 pm
Thursday, March 3
Chronology Bee--2:30-4:30 pm in Eymard Room
Friday, March 4
Saturday, March 5
GCCTM Tournaments--Grades 6, 7, 8
SPB Mask Update
On Monday, February 28th, we begin a chapter at SPB that we have not been familiar with for almost two years. As you know, this is the day we will be moving from mandatory masking to recommended masking. Because of this change, we thought it was important to discuss some reminders we all must be aware of relating to this transition.
Students should not throw away all of their old masks! All students will still be required to have a mask with them in school, so it might be wise to keep a few in your child's book bag. Also, masks are still required on buses, so if your child is a bus rider, he/she will still need one when riding the bus.
Why do students still need to have a mask at school?
First, we are still required to social distance in order to stop the spread of COVID. However, we know that teachers would still like students to work in groups or with a partner. Based on teacher discretion, any time students are working closely with other students, teachers will require them to wear a mask.
For the next few weeks, we will be wearing masks to our all school masses on Wednesday.
We will continue to follow the Mask to Stay guidelines we have followed all year. If a student is determined to be a close contact of a positive case outside of school, he/she will be required to wear a mask for 10 days.
If there is a cluster outbreak within a class determined by the Cuyahoga County Board of Health, we may be forced to require an entire class to wear masks.
Students will continue to sit in assigned seats at lunch and in the classroom so that we can do contact tracing, if necessary.
At SPB we live the four C’s: character, courage, civility, and compassion, all centered around Christ. With this in mind, students are reminded that it is never acceptable to mock, make fun of, or question a student who has chosen to continue to wear a mask. That is unacceptable behavior at SPB and not the way we expect a Green Knight to behave.
Our goal is to keep everyone safe and healthy and learning in person. We hope and pray this doesn’t happen, but should cases increase in our school, there may be a time that we have to return to wearing them.
We appreciate your support of our policies as we move forward!
Sweet Treat Raffle Sponsored by Student Council to support St. Anthony of Padua
SAVE THE DATE!
GRADE LEVEL CONTEST: Help your grade score the most points by exploring all that SPB has to offer. Bring your Basketball Card and earn sticker “points” by visiting the different grade level exhibits in O’Brien Hall, all our extracurricular activity tables, and by checking out the Jansky Learning Center. Awesome prizes await the grade levels who have the greatest participation! Turn in your Basketball Card and be entered into a drawing for individual prizes. So don’t forget those cards!! See you on March 10! It's sure to be a slam dunk!
Grade Level Prizes (based on highest percentage of grade level participation):
Third Place: Dress down day
Second Place: Dress down day AND a week of wearing tennis shoes
First Place: Dress down day AND a week of wearing tennis shoes AND an ice cream treat from the snack for each student
Education Fair Signs--Can You Help?
Ladies Guild Spring Craft & Trade Show-Saturday March 12th--9:00 am-3:00 pm
Please mark your calendar and plan to join us for our annual Spring Craft and Trade Show. You’ll be sure to find unique household and personal items to welcome spring with over 75 crafter tables to visit! Plus great Easter basket items and chocolates too!
Please consider volunteering some of your time to help make the day a success. Volunteers also get free admission to the show! Please contact Beth Juelich-Velotta at bethjuelich@yahoo.com with any volunteer questions.
The following link will take you to our sign up page on SignUpGenius.com
Student Volunteer Opportunity
6th, 7th, and 8th graders can sign up to help with the Ladies Guild Spring Craft Show set-up/clean-up.
The following shifts are available: Friday, March 11 from 5-7 pm, Saturday, March 12 from 7-9 am, 11 am-1 pm, or from 3-5 pm. Service Hours are provided for those who need them! 6th and 7th graders will get a dress-down pass.
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080449A4AC2DA2FE3-spring
email Emily (orlando.emily@gmail.com) with any questions.
Spring Fling Art Contest
Picture it...your child's artwork featured on the cover of the Spring Fling booklet! The deadline for the Spring Fling Booklet Cover Contest is Friday, March 19. Click HERE to read what it is all about. Two free ride tickets will be awarded to the winner who is featured on the front cover, and any finalists who have artwork included inside the booklet will receive one free ride ticket. Good luck!
New Student Referral Program
Registration for the 2022-2023 school year will take place soon, and we have already heard from some prospective families. Be sure you and they are aware of our New Student Referral Program. See the details below.
Diocesan Tuition Assistance for 2022-2023
Kotoch Family Scholarship Application
We are happy to announce that we are now accepting applications for the Kotoch Scholarship! Five families will each be awarded $1,000 in tuition assistance for the 2022-2023 school year. Please note that these scholarships are need-based. You can find the application HERE or under the "Parents" tab on our website. Applications are due March 14, 2022.
Diocesan Scholarship Opportunities
The Bishops' Scholarship for Excellence (for current 6th and 7th graders)
M. Thomas More Family Scholarship (for current 1st - 7th graders)
Playground Volunteers Needed-Grades 2, 1, Kindergarten, All Grades
We are asking that each family (mom, dad, grandma, etc.) choose at least two days to volunteer each time slot being 11:15 am-12:50 pm. There are many, many time slots open! We are so grateful for the help!
This is a great way for you to interact with your child and his/her classmates during the school day! Recess Volunteers should arrive to school at 11:10 and check in at the office. Duties will include supervising students at recess, escorting the students to and from the school doors. Volunteers will be with one school staff member each day to help direct.
Remember that after your two volunteer time slots, you are done for the year, as each month is assigned to a different grade.
COVID-19 Volunteer Protocol: all recess volunteers are required to wear a mask when in the building.
Thank you again for your time and service to the students and teachers of SPB! Simply click on the following links to sign up: Grade 2, Grade 1, Kindergarten, All Grades (June)
Camp Invention Information
Your kid can stretch their imagination with new, hands-on STEM adventures at Camp Invention®! This 1-6 program comes to Saint Paschal Baylon School from June 13 to June 17. Register using SUM25 by 3/31 to save $25 at invent.org/ mylocalcamp.
Check out this exciting video!
SPB PTO News
New this year to PTO:
SPB PTO is offering optional dress down passes for purchase. These passes can be used instead of turning in Box Tops. The dress down passes can be used on the first Monday and Tuesday of each month (on regular box tops dress down days).
Our half-year option is now available for January-May, $10 per child for half year,
Please send cash, check (made out to SPB PTO sent c/o Connor Slife room 5B), venmo (@Jacqueline-Slife), or purchase at PTO meeting. Please notate your child(ren) names and room numbers.
Outreach with any questions! Jackie Slife j.slife@yahoo.com or 440.554.0003
Bracelet Spirit Wear:
Need a gift for one of your lucky leprechauns? Or maybe a birthday gift? Well, these SPB Pura Vida bracelets are perfect. Show your love for SPB. They 1 for $8 or 2 for $15. Please see picture above for which bracelet you prefer. Send Payment to Penelope Room 3A or email Maria Patyk majdihp@gmail.com for purchases.
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Ladies Guild Gathering
What's in this week's folder?
Return the folder to your child's homeroom teacher tomorrow.
Athletics Association News
Youth Rugby Cleveland is looking for boys and girls from grades K-8 for their spring season. Practices start in March; Games begin April 3 - All Games are at St. Ignatius High School while practices are held within the local community. Click here to register or for more information: www.rookierugbyohio.com
St. Paschal Baylon Athletics Archives
Looking for some help. Received a request from some former St. Paschal Baylon Students - looking for pictures or rosters from Athletic Events in the 1970s! Specifically, looking for anything related to football, and flag football. Do you, or most likely an extended family member have old photos that you can share? Please reach out to Joe Carlton if you do - joe.carlton@gmail.com
Messages from Father Lane...
OTTERBEIN UNIVERSITY CONCERT CHOIR: We have been so fortunate during our church's 50th year and now again to have another music group wish to share their talents in our award-winning and acoustically amazing church. Mark your calendars for Tuesday, March 8, at 6:30 PM for the Otterbein University Concert Choir performance at SPB. This is an excellent opportunity to see and hear the youth sharing their gifts with us all here. THE CONCERT IS FREE! Bring your entire family to enjoy and support our students in the choir.
IGNITE YOUR FAITH PARISH MISSION WITH VINCENTIAN FATHER RONALD HOYE: It is time to make sure our annual parish mission is on your calendar and that you are recruiting others to join us for this exciting event. Fr Hoye CM will be preaching the weekend Masses March 12 & 13 and the 6:30 PM Monday - Wednesday, March 14 - 16 in the church at Saint Paschal Baylon. Want to feel closer to God? An engaging spiritual gathering that weaves story, prayer, and scripture into an enjoyable 45-minute presentation each evening. For anyone who desires a spiritual boost or spark – join us for the 3 evenings you won't forget! All are welcome (especially kids!).
From Saint Louis, MO, Fr Hoye CM is currently the director of Vincentian TeamWorks - a collaborative effort of Catholic Evangelization that includes the ministries of Catholic Home Study and Vincentian Parish Mission. He is a published author and travels throughout the country leading parish missions. Fr Hoye holds degrees in Philosophy, Theology, and Ethics.
SEE YOU SUNDAY @ CHURCH! Our lives are pretty much back to our routines. For many of us, missing one key element - worshiping together as the Body of Christ! As we heard in the scriptures in January from Saint Paul, each part of the Body of Christ is important and all are necessary. Come on home to the Table of the LORD! Worship is a team sport!
PREPARING FOR LENT: In less than a month, we begin our renewal, paschal journey through Lent, Triduum, and Easter Time. These 96 days are quite important and begin with a great Lent. Here are a few things to keep in mind:
· Ash Wednesday is March 2, and ashes are distributed after the homily at each liturgy. There are 4 Masses and one service of the Word. Masses are at 6:30 AM, 9:00 AM (hosted by our 8th grade), 12:15 PM and 7:00 PM. We have a service of the word (30-minutes) @ 4:00 PM.
o We will continue the ancient and pandemic practice of sprinkling ashes on your head on Ash Wednesday. Many countries of the world never stopped this practice which comes from the Bible.
o While we have been celebrating a service of the Word for the last 12 years, we again share the outline of the ritual:
§ Opening Song & Prayer
§ Liturgy of the Word: One reading, psalm, reflection on the Word of God by Roberta Modica
§ Distribution of the Ashes
§ Universal Prayers & Lord's Prayer
§ Blessing & Closing Song: with the request, as the new custom, to place your envelope in the baskets at the door while you leave the church.
· The church has a rubric about no flowers during Lent until the "Gloria" of the Easter Vigil. The exceptions are March 19 & March 25 for these two solemnities (Saint Joseph & Annunciation). Lent is about uncluttering our lives and focusing. We move the plants to create a stark environment around the sanctuary and an environment that helps us focus on the cross, in line with the rubric to ban flowers.
· We cover statues to not focus on the saints, but ourselves too: no ornamentation.
· Our theme song this year is "Hosea." It will be sung for us as our prayer on our YouTube channel.
· We appreciate the starkness in song by chanting the music of the Mass. There have been in past centuries rubrics about banning instrumentation as well. These are not enforced today as in previous centuries.
· Lighting is dimmed for our sanctuary and nave to help with the spirit of the liturgy too.
· We begin Mass in the solemn prayer of the "monastic" style, with a simple entrance.
o The priest will be in the presider chair 5 minutes before Mass.
o We are called to gather early to prepare to silence ourselves, listen more closely to God's Word, and be nourished by it.
o We are called to prayer by a simple ring of a bowl.
· After making the "Sign of the Cross," we sing the Penitential Act to acknowledge our need for God's mercy. No "Gloria" is sung during the Lenten season.
· Our Parish Mission will be LIVE in church and on our YouTube Channel with Vincentian priest Fr. Ron Hoye, CM, March 12 – 16.
· Join a small faith-sharing group and Live LENT! Contact Rosalie (rafl0708@yahoo.com) to sign up.
· We also have a Women's Only and Men's Only Bible Study and the Agape Bible Study groups. Contact the office for the zoom links or in-person gathering information.
· Stations of the Cross will be in the church at 7:00 PM each Friday of Lent.
· JOIN US FOR OTHER PRAYER & WORSHIP during Lent:
o WEEKDAY MASSES: 9:00 AM in church or 11:30 AM in Saint Ann Shrine
o MORNING PRAYER IN CHURCH: 8:00 AM (A 20-minute word service)
o EVENING PRAYER IN CHURCH CHAPEL: 4:45 PM (A 20-minute word service)
o ROSARY: 8:30 AM MONDAY – SATURDAY IN CHURCH (A 20-minute devotional service)
o PRAY FOR PEACE @ 2:30 PM each day with "Let There Be Peace on Earth" bells
o MAKE A VISIT: Before or after school as you drop off or pick up your student from the Day School or PSR – just 5 minutes!
o CHURCH IS OPEN – from 7 AM to 7 PM and ask me for the code to make a visit with the rest of us for the other hours of the night by receiving the code for the door by the SSS Kitchen Parking Lot and the brown hallway to enter the church this way.
· PRAYER IN THE PRESENCE OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT: When driving in the area, make a visit to the chapel to spend more time in prayer, or even better, make an appointment with God by signing up for an hour of praying with the Community at Prayer ministry. If you would like to visit in the middle of the night, see me for the code to the door.
· PICK UP YOUR RICE BOWL: Let's be in solidarity with those across the globe who benefit from our prayers, fasting, and almsgiving by participating in Operation Rice Bowl. Make the bowl that we provide around the perimeter of the church and stapled to this bulletin. Read the daily items and make a recipe or two. Return your Rice Bowl on Good Friday during the Veneration of the Cross or Easter Sunday at one of the services.
· BRING BACK YOUR OLD PALMS: We will burn them for you reverently during the Easter Vigil fire. Place them in the Fickel Narthex.
· CONTRIBUTE TO OUR DIOCESE CATHOLIC CHARITIES: Support the 400,000 who come to our 60+ agencies in the 8 counties of our diocesan church.
· SUBSCRIBE TO OUR SAINT PASCHAL YOUTUBE CHANNEL: Help us reach our next plateau in the YouTube world by getting us to 1,000 subscribers by Ash Wednesday.
Thank you for taking Lent so seriously at SPB! It's a wonderful, faith-filled event for us all in the renewal of our lives. Let's continue to pray for each other.
Blessings & prayers --Father Lane sss
Saint Paschal Baylon Catholic School
Email: office@saintpaschal.com
Website: www.saintpaschal.com
Location: 5360 Wilson Mills Road, Highland Heights, OH, USA
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