Summer Office Hours 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
OFFICE WILL BE CLOSED July 24 and 27
$150.00 Non- Refundable Books and Materials fee
charged July 24, 2020
$125.00 Supply and Activity fee charged August 1, 2020
FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL August 24, 2020
Full day of school for 1st - 8th
Half Day of School for Pre-K and Kindergarten
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Please Contact:
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Dear Families,
I hope this letter finds you well and safe. This note is to update you on progress we are making in developing an MI-Safe Start Plan for St. Mary in response to our Governor's Executive Order MI 2020-142.
Our goal is to have something out to you this week. Several weeks ago I assembled a task force of principals, medical professionals, teachers, parents, and our new Pastor, Father David Fons. We have consulted with a pediatrician from our parish, another parent who represents a major data analytics consulting company with several epidemiologists on their team, and several knowledgeable families with immunocompromised children.
Our plan is that we will be face-to-face for this fall. we are almost ready to share our plans to ensure the health, safety, and welfare of our St. Mary students, teachers and families.
Our task force goal and intent, in addition to safety, is to not put the weight
of expectations on the students for the coming school year but rather to minimize the potential effect the new protocols will have on students’ well-being. We must remain steadfast in emphasizing the greater good of teaching Truth, Beauty and Goodness.
In the meantime, please keep us in your prayers as we have been praying for you and the successful opening of this coming school year that our children need and desire.
Pax Cristi,
Mr. Lomas
Come and pick up your 2019-2020 yearbook for $20.00 now available in the school office! Thank you, Kristin Sesti for all of your hard work on this project!
The Feast of St. Mary Magdalene
July 22nd
Except for the mother of Jesus, few women are more honored in the Bible than Mary Magdalene. Yet she could well be the patron of the slandered, since there has been a persistent legend in the Church that she is the unnamed sinful woman who anointed the feet of Jesus in Luke 7:36-50.
Most Scripture scholars today point out that there is no scriptural basis for confusing the two women. Mary Magdalene, that is, “of Magdala,” was the one from whom Christ cast out “seven demons” (Luke 8:2)—an indication at the worst, of extreme demonic possession or possibly, severe illness.
Writing in the New Catholic Commentary, Father Wilfrid J. Harrington, O.P., says that “seven demons” “does not mean that Mary had lived an immoral life—a conclusion reached only by means of a mistaken identification with the anonymous woman of Luke 7:36.” In the Jerome Biblical Commentary, Father Edward Mally, SJ, agrees that she “is not…the same as the sinner of Luke 7:37, despite the later Western romantic tradition about her.”
Mary Magdalene was one of the many “who were assisting them [Jesus and the Twelve] out of their means.” She was one of those who stood by the cross of Jesus with his mother. And, of all the “official” witnesses who might have been chosen for the first awareness of the Resurrection, she was the one to whom that privilege was given. She is known as the “Apostle to the Apostles.”
Reflection
Mary Magdalene has been a victim of mistaken identity for almost 20 centuries. Yet she would no doubt insist that it makes no difference. We are all sinners in need of the saving power of God, whether our sins have been lurid or not. More importantly, we are all “unofficial” witnesses of the Resurrection.
Dear Families,
