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Do you have a friend, co-worker, family member or neighbor who’s interested in learning more about the Academy? We’d love to meet them! Be sure to let them know about the second of our Admissions Open Houses on January 22. A 9 a.m. presentation by Sister Glavin and Mrs. Renken will be followed by student-led tours. For further information or to reserve a spot, please contact Admissions Director Lisa Tebbe, 636-946-6127, ext. 1620.
At the conclusion of the Christmas Basket Mass, Mothers’ Club officers (from left) Megan Lee (vice president), Aimee Centorbi (secretary), Erin Grieshaber (treasurer) and Melanie McClure (president) presented Sister Glavin with a check to the school for $15,000. This remarkable contribution represents their indefatigable efforts over the past few months, in large part organizing and overseeing two Gently Used Uniform Sales and the Taste of Christmas Boutique event. The Mothers’ Club donation has been earmarked for The Sister Anna Mae Marheineke Student Enrichment Fund, which helps families who find themselves in need of assistance during the course of the school year. Thanks, Mothers’ Club officers and volunteers, for this amazing contribution!
Our thanks to Pundmann Ford for their very generous gift to the Academy of the Sacred Heart. We partnered with them in a marketing initiative at Country Fair that netted $6,000 for our school. Support for the Academy from the corporate and business community is an integral part of our operating budget, and very much appreciated!
Scenes around school on Christmas Basket Mass day. Here’s wishing everyone a wonderful Christmas break! Classes resume on Monday, January 5, 2015.
Join the Academy community in celebrating the birth of the Christ Child! All are invited to attend our Christmas Eve Liturgy in the Shrine, beginning at 10 p.m.
Hundreds of food baskets await delivery to charitable agencies after this morning’s Christmas Basket Mass. We’re grateful to the many Academy families, as well as alumni, who donated baskets of food that will provide a holiday meal for area families in need. Merry Christmas!
Academy students gave a beautiful gift to their parents and grandparents with their Silver Tea performances last weekend and Monday. We’re left with heartwarming memories, and gratitude to all of the adults who helped the children prepare and present. Merry Christmas!
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Advent poems written by Sister Kimberly King—former Fifth Class teacher, librarian and resident poet at ASH—invite reflection as we prepare for the celebration of Christ’s birth.
Sister King now resides in a Sacred Heart community in Nova Scotia. We’re grateful for the sharing of her singular voice on Consider the Lilies.
With bare spread arms and fullness of being
I ache for your coming and praise you already
in the becoming colors where night awakens the sun
with stories and visions and hope.
Where day bows to starlight and promises tales
when next they meet to dance
on the edge of Mystery’s vastness.
–Kimberly M. King, rscj
Where the voice cries, plaintive or piercing,
at the bend of becoming and no return, I am
watchful for the low words
that draw me down center,
that humble me, impassion me,
steady me, move me,
move my light, move my being,
into the here and the now of
the still and the fray of the world,
to proclaim the time
of Love’s incarnation.
–Kimberly M. King, rscj
(words in italics are from Janet Erskine Stuart,
Superior General of the Society of the Sacred Heart, 1911-1914)
My counter-weight,
my center down,
my metronome, my joy,
my song, my strength,
my fascination,
my hope, my help,
my rumination,
my wonder, awe, best inclination,
grace, cry, laugh, word,
moving me out to the neighborhood;
Born a baby, born of yes,
born to journey, born to bless.
Joy to the world, parumpapumpum,
Hark, herald, welcome,
COME!
–Kimberly M. King, rscj
image: c. Natesh Ramasamy
Yesterday’s Photo of the Day at the White House features the feet of some of the Patt Holt Singers, who traveled to Washington to perform for the President. After the first set, the group was invited into the Diplomatic Room where they performed “Let There Be Peace On Earth” for the President and First Lady. ASH parent and alum Laurie Kirchoff Strickland served as music director, and seven of the 20 performers were ASH students and alums. What an honor! Congratulations to the Patt Holt Singers.
We look forward with excitement to tonight’s, tomorrow’s and Monday’s Silver Teas. The students have been working for weeks on their performances, lovingly prepared as a Christmas gift for their parents.
The Academy Band will give a Christmas concert on Sunday, December 14, at 2 p.m. in Rauch Memorial. On Thursday, Dec. 18, the band will perform their concert for the whole school, and classroom Christmas parties will follow.
In a tradition dating back many years, each Academy family is invited to provide a basket of food for the needy. As we joyfully anticipate Jesus’ birth during Advent, assembling items for your family’s food basket can become a special family activity and a new holiday tradition. When students (P-8), faculty, staff, parents, alums and friends gather for Christmas Basket Mass on Friday, Dec. 19 at 10 a.m. in Rauch Memorial, hundreds of bountiful baskets will fill the bleachers, representing the incredible generosity of our families. Not only is this a prayerful way to part before the holidays, it is also an opportunity to realize the abundance of our blessings.
Academy alumni will lend support to this effort by assembling additional food baskets the evening before Basket Mass. They’ll gather from 7–9 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 18 in the White Center.
Dismissal for Christmas break is Friday, Dec. 19 at 11:30 a.m. [NO LATE DISMISSAL]
Finally, all are invited to attend our Christmas Eve Liturgy at 10 p.m. Dec. 24 in the Shrine of St. Philippine Duchesne. This is a beautiful, joyful and prayerful way to celebrate the birth of Jesus!
If you have questions about any of our December events, please call the school office at 636-946-6127.
Following the conclusion of the SHCOG Visiting Team’s time with us Wednesday, the faculty surprised the students with an afternoon play day—a mini Congé, when lessons were set aside in favor of fun and games. Sister Glavin’s surprise announcement over the P.A. was happily received!
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