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The Halo
259 St. George Street
St. Augustine, FL 32084
904-824-2861
www.thecathedralparishschool.org
The official newsletter of St. Augustine's Catholic Elementary School
Serving students in grades K-8 and a winner of the Blue Ribbon Award for Excellence
W E E K L Y
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Saturday January 24 & Sunday January 25: Catholic Schools Week begins!
Students are asked to wear their uniforms to mass at their parish
1:00 – 3:00 p.m. - Open House for prospective parents, refer a family and receive $150! Have a friend, neighbor, or coworker with school age children? Tell them about your wonderful experience at CPS. If that family registers and names
you as the referring family, next year’s registration may be on the house.
Monday, January 26:Jeans day: Thank you for wearing your uniform to mass on Sunday!
Ice cream cups for all students during lunch, compliments of Father Mooney
Catholic Charities collection of cans or non-perishable foods collected all week- items due by Friday to homeroom (see
below for the list of items)
8:15 a.m. – Praise and Worship Pep Rally in the hall with Melody Ott, Ryan Poticny & Cynthia Dueling
Volleyball Tournament – CPS vs Beaches at Assumption at 5:00 p.m.
Tuesday, January 27: Jeans day
9:00 a.m. - Mass in the Parish Hall
10:00 – 12:00 p.m. – Theatre Works field trip for grades K-3 at FSDB.
1:00 p.m. – Living Rosary (weather permitting) in the Plaza de la Constitucion
1:00 p.m.—Grades 2 & 4– Living rosary with the Sister of St. Joseph at Lourdes Hall
3:00–3:30 p.m. - Baton practice
3:00–3:45 p.m. - Math tutoring
Soccer Tournament – Time and Location - TBA
Restaurant Night: Chili’s 4pm to 10pm (remember to bring your flier)
Wednesday, January 28:
9:00 – 9:35 Bingo for grades 3-5
9:35 – 10:10 Bingo for grades 1-2
10:00 a.m.- Grades 3 & 5– Living rosary with the Sister of St. Joseph at Lourdes Hall
10:35 – 11:10 – Bingo for grades 6-8
Kindergarten will play Bingo in their classroom
1:50 p.m. – Early dismissal
Thursday, January 29:
Junior High and 2nd grade students will provide a meal for Dining with Dignity. Families have been asked to donate
sandwich bread, peanut butter, jelly & cookies.
Free Throws, Service & Kicks for Jesus fundraiser: Proceeds benefit St. Vincent de Paul Society
2:00 p.m. – Special presentation in the parish hall for all students
3:00 – 3:45 p.m. – Math tutoring
5:30pm—Festival meeting
Friday, January 30:
1:15 – 2:15 p.m. Catholic Schools Week closing ceremony in the Parish Hall
3:00 – 3:30 – Choir practice
Father Mooney has donated Tootsie Pops to all students to conclude Catholic Schools Week
The following is a list of what each class is asked to bring during CSW as we work to help those in need:
Grades K-2: peanut butter and jelly
Grades 3-4: Vienna sausages, beef stew soup, Spam
Grades 5-6: Capri Suns, applesauce, pudding
Grades 7-8: spaghetti sauce, tomato sauce, Ravioli, Spaghetti O’s
Additional Items
Yearbooks: There is still time to order your 2014-15 school yearbook. The cost is now $45.00 and is due by January 30th. If you
would like to purchase a yearbook, please do so before the deadline of January 30th. No late orders will be accepted.
Festival News
Festival raffle tickets: Please remember you need to buy/sell a minimum of 3 books of raffle tickets. Only tickets turned in at CPS
will count towards your family obligation. There will prizes for the top sellers!
Silent Auction
Cathedral Parish Early Education Center (CPEEC) will be hosting the Silent Auction during the 30 th Annual Cathedral Parish Festival on Sunday, March 1st, 2015. Earn non-festival volunteer hours by donating items or securing donations from businesses! A $50 item counts as 1 non-festival volunteer hour. Gift certificates from restaurants, entertainment establishments, photographers, and spas do very well at the Auction. Art, jewelry, vacation stays, signed memorabilia and spirits are also great items.
Please help make this the best Auction ever! Donation forms may be picked up in the CPS office. Please complete the form with
the donor’s information, and include your family name and your child’s class at the bottom of the form so that you receive proper
volunteer hour credit. Items may be delivered to Cathedral Parish Early Education Center, 10 Sebastian Avenue, or call Jill or Peggy at 904-829-2933 for pickup.
Festival T-Shirts
Attached is the Festival T-Shirt order form. Orders are due by February 9th. These make a great jeans day option for CPS students!
Parents are encouraged to wear a festival T-shirt while working the festival to be recognized as a volunteer, and to receive food/
drink discounts at CPS booths!
Festival Signs
Festival signs have arrived! If you know of a business that would post a festival sign, please stop by the office to pick one up!
Advanced Ride Tickets:
Discounted ride tickets are coming soon! CPS families may sign out a book of 25 sheets of ride tickets to sell to their friends and
neighbors. CPS families that sell 25 sheets will earn a wristband for their student to ride the rides for free!
Advance ride tickets are $13 for a sheet of 20 and will be $20 a sheet at the festival. Save money and buy them early. Tickets will be
available from CPS families, the CPS office, and at Carmelos.
Congratulations to our Soccer
and Volleyball teams for
earning a spot in the Catholic
Grade School League playoffs.
With a win on Monday night,
the soccer team will secure
the #1 seed.
Did you know that today was our 100th day of school?
According to Ms. Mirona, this is what it looks like to be 100!
Good luck to
our Bishop’s
bowl team
tonight!
The wisdom of parents must guide children in the digital world
Vatican City, 23 January 2015 (VIS) – A press conference was held in the Holy See Press Office this morning in which Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli, president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications,
and Professor Chiara Giaccardi of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, Italy, presented the Holy Father's Message for the 49th World Day of Communications,
entitled “Communicating the family: a privileged place of encounter with the gift of love”.
Archbishop Celli explained, “From this text there emerges a positive
overall message, given that the Pope affirms that the family continues to be a great resource and not merely a problem or an institution in crisis. As we can see, the Pope is not interested principally in
the problem between the family and communication linked to new
technologies. He instead focuses on the most profoundly true and
human dimension of communication”.
The message affirms, he continued, that the family “has the capacity to communicate itself and to communicate, by virtue of the bond
that links its various members”, and he noted that “a paragraph is
dedicated to prayer, defined as a fundamental form of communication that finds in the family its truest environment of discovery and
experience”.
“In this context”, he added, forgiveness is understood “as a dynamic of communication, since when contrition
is expressed and accepted, it becomes possible to restore and rebuild the communication which broke
down”. He also remarked that a long paragraph is devoted to the most modern media and their influence on
communication in and among families, both as a help and a hindrance. He noted that the text clearly restates
what has already been underlined in the teachings of St. John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI. “But it is important to rediscover yet again that the parents are the first educators of their children, who are increasingly
present in the digital sphere. The presence of parents does not have a primarily technological dimension –
generally children know more than their parents in this field – but is important on account of the wisdom they
contribute”.
“It is well-known that one of the great risks is that children or teenagers may isolate themselves in a 'virtual
world', significantly reducing their necessary integration in real everyday life and in the interrelationships of
friendship. This is not to say that the relationships of affection or friendship that develop in the context of the
web are not real. It must also be remembered that the young – and the not so young – are called upon to
give witness to Christ in the digital world too, in the social networks we all inhabit”.
- Pope Francis' Annual Message for World Communications Day
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