Sunday, Nov. 27th at 7:30 p.m.
Thanks to those parents and friends who have helped
● Our deep appreciation to all the parents who have supported and helped with our Fall Sports Awards Ceremony.
● For sponsoring a lunch for students and faculty: Mrs. Lenahan and Mrs. Schardt
● For helping with carpools: The Aragon, Brokaw, Lenahan, Nguyen, and Tran families
● For hosting students over the weekend: The Gomez, Hierro, Schardt and Wang families.
● For helping out with the first outing of the school’s Surf Club: The Cara Family
Financial Aid Applications Due
Please begin submitting your financial aid renewals for the 2012-2013 school year. Applications must be received by PSAS prior to February 1, 2012. The application may be found on our school webpage in the Admissions section or by opening the following link: http://stmichaelsprep.org/images/stories/Admissions/psas_financial_aid_application.pdf
60%/40% Tuition Payments Due December 2nd!
Thanksgiving Weekend
School will be dismissed for the Thanksgiving weekend at 12:45 p.m. on Wednesday, November 23rd.
Parent/Student Handbook: Chapter 3, Section 12; GRADE POINT AVERAGE (GPA)
“St. Michael’s records student progress at two levels. The official GPA is the 4-point scale of the academic record. The more common Honor Roll GPA is the 100-point scale which parents and students read on the school’s electronic grading program. With this second scale, instructors provide a more nuanced report of student progress. This second GPA includes nonacademic subjects such as P.E., and conduct.”
This Week’s Photos: trip to the Nixon Library; visit to St. Michael’s by actor Sean Astin
Sports This Week
Congratulations to Coach Aaron Meschuk on being voted the CIF Express League “Coach of the Year”!
Congratulations to the other football players for the following CIF Express League awards:
-Player of the Year: Brett Lenahan
-Defensive Player of the Year: Giorgio Navarini
-Honorable Mention: Joseph Porretta
-1st Team All League Margo Saglietto (Defense)
-1st Team All League Michael Porretta (Offense)-1st Team All League Moises Gomez (Offense)
Tuesday, Nov. 22nd: Soccer vs. Whitney @ STM; 3:00 p.m.
Birthdays This Week:
Nov. 23: Dominic Salazar
Weekly Homily by Fr. Gabriel Stack, O. Praem.
Among other things, Fr. Gabriel is the Headmaster and teaches English, History and Latin.
This Sunday’s gospel reading from St. Matthew is very appropriate for the feast of Christ the King; it portrays Christ as a king who presides over the scene of final judgment. The sheep, being more valuable than goats, represent those who have been found worthy of final victory and reward. The focus of the story concerns the criterion that will be used. We are told that the decisive factor will be an account of how well we have cared for the less fortunate among us. They are listed twice so that there can be no doubt about their identity: they are the hungry, the thirsty, strangers, the naked, the sick and prisoners. In brief, those who live in need. The primary emphasis is really the unselfish love that animates us to reach out in the first place. This attitude will help us realize that many rich and notable people are desperately in need of God’s love and peace and hope.
How wonderful and mysterious God is to us! In today’s gospel reading, He has also given us the easy way to stay close to our Savior. He has done this by mysteriously hiding himself inside every person we meet, something akin to how He hides himself in the Eucharist. By becoming a man himself, Jesus has identified himself with every human being. And so, whenever we find someone in need, whether family member, friend, colleague, or stranger, we are face-to-face not only with that person, but also with our Lord and King, Jesus Christ.
This is what Jesus meant when He says, Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of the least brothers of mine, you did for me. And so, to build our friendship with Christ and, simultaneously, to travel the path to eternal blessing, all we have to do is reach out and serve those around us.
What a wonderful mystery! What a great truth of the spiritual life. St. Augustine once said: "Do not grieve or complain that you were born in a time when you can no longer see God in the flesh. He did not in fact take this privilege from you. As he says: 'Whatever you did for one of the least brothers of mine, you did for me.'" And in the words of St. Leo the Great: "No act o
f devotion on the part of the faithful gives God more pleasure than that which is lavished on his poor. Where he finds charity with its living concern, there he recognizes the reflection of his own fatherly care."That's how simple Christ has made it; he has given our smallest, everyday encounters an "eternal weight of glory," as St Paul put it in his second letter to the Corinthians. All of a sudden, with Christ, these actions are no longer random acts of kindness; instead, they take on eternal proportions. They increase the everlasting glory of heaven. They reverberate -- forever. May God bless us in our task and guide us along the path of humility and of service as we do His work on earth.
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
● Mrs. Marge DeClue, past parent-league president, who has declining health.
● Mrs. Maria Ferrucci who suffers with a health problem.
● Mrs. Beverly Schaefgen who is battling cancer.
● Mrs Jean Welke, great aunt of Jack Mikolaycik, who is nearing death
● Those who are in the armed forces.
● St. Michael’s older priests and those who care for them.
● For the repose of the soul of Mrs. Eugenia Brokaw
● For the repose of the soul of Mrs. Maryanne Pantano
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