Thanks to those parents and friends who have helped this week: The many moms who set up and provided food for the reception after the Spring Concert.
Future Events
● School dismisses at 12:30 P.M. on Thursday, May 26th for the Memorial
Day weekend. Seniors stay at school until Friday afternoon for the Baccalaureate Mass at 1:00 PM.● Graduation is Monday, May 30th at 7:00 p.m. All parents and students are invited to attend our Graduation Ceremony. A reception will follow.
Future Events
● School dismisses at 12:30 P.M. on Thursday, May 26th for the Memorial
Day weekend. Seniors stay at school until Friday afternoon for the Baccalaureate Mass at 1:00 PM.● Graduation is Monday, May 30th at 7:00 p.m. All parents and students are invited to attend our Graduation Ceremony. A reception will follow.Volunteer Opportunities 
● We are in need of parents who can help with the reception following our Graduation Ceremony. If you can help by donating an appetizer, a dessert or a beverage, please call Cathy Porretta at 951-940-1852.
● Annual Bucket Brigade!! Come help us clean the school on June 11th at 8:30 a.m. We need several work teams to help clean after school is out for the summer. All volunteers are welcome. Snacks and beverages provided by Fr. Gabriel. To sign-up contact Mrs. Christian in the school office.
● We are in need of parents who can help with the reception following our Graduation Ceremony. If you can help by donating an appetizer, a dessert or a beverage, please call Cathy Porretta at 951-940-1852.
● Annual Bucket Brigade!! Come help us clean the school on June 11th at 8:30 a.m. We need several work teams to help clean after school is out for the summer. All volunteers are welcome. Snacks and beverages provided by Fr. Gabriel. To sign-up contact Mrs. Christian in the school office.
Parent/Student Handbook: Chapter 4, Section 2
SECTION 2:
St. Michael’s has a closed campus policy. Students are not permitted to leave the campus or receive any individual visitors without the permission of the headmaster or his delegate. Alumni and associate alumni are encouraged to visit the school and talk with the student body as a whole. All are to respect the privacy of the students by not entering the student residency. There is no special alumni privilege to visit brothers or relatives.
This Week’s Photos: Students helping out at the Blind Center; Justin Koh receiving an award.
Etiquette Point of the Week
A gentleman takes off his cap during the National Anthem, during the Pledge of Allegiance, or whenever the American flag is passing by.
50 Things Every Young Gentleman Should Know, John Bridges and Bryan Curtis; Rutledge Hill Press
Birthdays
5/24 Gregory Minder
Athletics
St. Michael's Prep has moved on to the 2nd round of the CIF Playoffs. On Tuesday, St. Michael's Prep will host Dunn School. The game is scheduled for 3:15 pm. Congratulations to the baseball players on their success so far!
SECTION 2:
St. Michael’s has a closed campus policy. Students are not permitted to leave the campus or receive any individual visitors without the permission of the headmaster or his delegate. Alumni and associate alumni are encouraged to visit the school and talk with the student body as a whole. All are to respect the privacy of the students by not entering the student residency. There is no special alumni privilege to visit brothers or relatives.
This Week’s Photos: Students helping out at the Blind Center; Justin Koh receiving an award.
Etiquette Point of the Week
A gentleman takes off his cap during the National Anthem, during the Pledge of Allegiance, or whenever the American flag is passing by.
50 Things Every Young Gentleman Should Know, John Bridges and Bryan Curtis; Rutledge Hill Press
Birthdays
5/24 Gregory Minder
Athletics
St. Michael's Prep has moved on to the 2nd round of the CIF Playoffs. On Tuesday, St. Michael's Prep will host Dunn School. The game is scheduled for 3:15 pm. Congratulations to the baseball players on their success so far!
Homily preached by Fr. Chrysostom Baer, O. Praem.
Among other things, Fr. Chrysostom is the Abbey Cantor
Only Jesus could teach the most sublime truths while under the duress of an imminent attack on His life, as He does in the Gospel today. For He reveals to the Jews that He and the Father both possess the divine nature: “I and the Father are one.” And if we take another translation that some prefer, we understand that Christ’s own possession of the divine nature is by way of procession—“That which My Father has given Me is greater than everything”—for what is greater than the divine nature? And what is the eternal procession of the Son other than the receiving of the divine nature from the Father? And if that’s not enough, Christ also reveals Himself as the Savior of all by indicating the ultimate effect of following Him, the purpose of His Incarnation: “I give them eternal life.” Still not enough, He reveals the deep personal relationship that man will enter into with God: “My sheep hear My voice; I know them and they follow Me.” They recognize His voice and follow Him because He speaks to them often, as a Good Shepherd will do. And because Christ is the consummate teacher, He has approached His loftiest doctrine, that of the inner life of God, by starting first with what is best known to His audience, the response to God’s word. Thus, Jesus has in a few sentences explicitly revealed, to those who but pretend interest, the two essential dogmas that we must believe for our salvation: the Trinity and the Incarnation.
And what is the reaction of the crowd? We read in the text immediately following today’s Gospel that even still the Jews pick up stones to kill Him. While they are doing so, Christ appeals to incontrovertible evidence that He speaks the truth: “I have shown you many good works from My Father. For which of these are you trying to stone Me?” He has worked miracles, and how! Water turned into wine, a paralytic of thirty-eight years walking again, five thousand fed from five loaves, and sight given to a man born blind. These are signs that the Jews in their fury cannot deny, and they don’t even try, but nevertheless they do not believe in Him.
Even as we shake our heads with our own disbelief at their hardness of heart, and even though we would rather cut off our hands that pick up a stone to throw at Christ, don’t we sometimes find the stone already in our hand and our arm pulled back to throw it at our neighbor, whether spouse or fellow student or fellow religious—the precise people through whom God intends to reveal to us the sublime mysteries of His love, the precise people with whom Jesus identifies Himself? We should instead wipe from our minds the blindness of the Jews in the Gospel today and rather than be incredulous of good motives believe the works of charity performed by those closest to us, works supernatural and therefore greater even than those natural miracles Christ performed, works that in some mysterious way reveal the inner life God.
In publishing this homily, we hope to share a portion of the spiritual treasure by which the students are enriched every day. However, this homily may not be reproduced without written permission of the author.
Prayer Requests
● Alumni Tom Cox ’05 who fell 30’ while rock climbing and broke both ankles.
● For Mr. and Mrs. Meschuk who suffered a miscarriage last week.
● Those who are in the armed forces.
● St. Michael’s older priests and those who care for them
Among other things, Fr. Chrysostom is the Abbey Cantor
Only Jesus could teach the most sublime truths while under the duress of an imminent attack on His life, as He does in the Gospel today. For He reveals to the Jews that He and the Father both possess the divine nature: “I and the Father are one.” And if we take another translation that some prefer, we understand that Christ’s own possession of the divine nature is by way of procession—“That which My Father has given Me is greater than everything”—for what is greater than the divine nature? And what is the eternal procession of the Son other than the receiving of the divine nature from the Father? And if that’s not enough, Christ also reveals Himself as the Savior of all by indicating the ultimate effect of following Him, the purpose of His Incarnation: “I give them eternal life.” Still not enough, He reveals the deep personal relationship that man will enter into with God: “My sheep hear My voice; I know them and they follow Me.” They recognize His voice and follow Him because He speaks to them often, as a Good Shepherd will do. And because Christ is the consummate teacher, He has approached His loftiest doctrine, that of the inner life of God, by starting first with what is best known to His audience, the response to God’s word. Thus, Jesus has in a few sentences explicitly revealed, to those who but pretend interest, the two essential dogmas that we must believe for our salvation: the Trinity and the Incarnation.
And what is the reaction of the crowd? We read in the text immediately following today’s Gospel that even still the Jews pick up stones to kill Him. While they are doing so, Christ appeals to incontrovertible evidence that He speaks the truth: “I have shown you many good works from My Father. For which of these are you trying to stone Me?” He has worked miracles, and how! Water turned into wine, a paralytic of thirty-eight years walking again, five thousand fed from five loaves, and sight given to a man born blind. These are signs that the Jews in their fury cannot deny, and they don’t even try, but nevertheless they do not believe in Him.
Even as we shake our heads with our own disbelief at their hardness of heart, and even though we would rather cut off our hands that pick up a stone to throw at Christ, don’t we sometimes find the stone already in our hand and our arm pulled back to throw it at our neighbor, whether spouse or fellow student or fellow religious—the precise people through whom God intends to reveal to us the sublime mysteries of His love, the precise people with whom Jesus identifies Himself? We should instead wipe from our minds the blindness of the Jews in the Gospel today and rather than be incredulous of good motives believe the works of charity performed by those closest to us, works supernatural and therefore greater even than those natural miracles Christ performed, works that in some mysterious way reveal the inner life God.
In publishing this homily, we hope to share a portion of the spiritual treasure by which the students are enriched every day. However, this homily may not be reproduced without written permission of the author.
Prayer Requests
● Alumni Tom Cox ’05 who fell 30’ while rock climbing and broke both ankles.
● For Mr. and Mrs. Meschuk who suffered a miscarriage last week.
● Those who are in the armed forces.
● St. Michael’s older priests and those who care for them
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