May Crowning

Yesterday the 2nd graders led the St. Columbkille Catholic School community in the May crowning.

Afterwards the second grade students posed for a picture in their First Communion outfits then had a brunch surrounded by their First Communion quilts. Thank you to everyone who made this day special!

Cinco de Mayo

 The Fifth Grade Classes celebrated 

Cinco de Mayo a little early last week.

 It was full of fun!

Weekend Two of First Communions

This was the second weekend of First Communions. There were First Communions at almost every Mass again this weekend as well as a Mass full of First Communicants in the afternoon.

Congratulations to all our

 new communicants!

Celebrating Easter in Preschool

There has been a lot happening at Sacred Heart Preschool during this Easter season.

 We have learned about Jesus’ Holy Week

We have had an Easter egg hunt

 We have played in our “Garden Center”

 We have done some real planting

 We have watched caterpillars turn into butterflies

 And we have set them free

Happy Easter everyone!

National Jr. Honor Society

Monday the Sacred Heart Chapter of the National Junior Honor Society gathered to install new members.

It began with prayer.

Current members lit a candle, representing the five characteristics of a member as well as explaining them. They are Scholarship, Leadership, Service, Citizenship, and Character.

Mr. Makey spoke to the group about leadership.

The new members signed in ...

... and were congratulated.

Welcome new members!

Jesus' Easter Game of Hide and Seek‏

Our Tabernacle doors, created by artist John Lajba, depict
the disciples recognizing Jesus in the breaking of the bread.

"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever."

    - Hebrews 13:8

Most of Jesus' life on earth is hidden from us, including His Risen Life.

Even now, He is risen and among us but chooses to remain hidden, wrote Caryll Houselander in her book The Risen Christ.

"He is 'the Way'; the Way does not change," Houselander said. "We are helped by this consistency to recognize Him in His hidden life in ourselves."

Like his disciples, we don't always recognize the Risen Lord. But His appearances in Scripture highlight Jesus' gifts to us and give us some clues on how He reveals Himself to us, the author said.

"To the stricken world in the person of Magdalene, compassion: 'Why are you weeping, for Whom are you seeking?'

"To the apostles, His first word, 'Peace!'

"To Thomas, 'Believe' because of the wounds -- 'the courage of faith.'

"To Peter, the wonderful opportunity to affirm His love.

"To the disciples who mourned Him as lost, communion with Him."

Jesus continues his hidden, daily miracles, appearing to us in the breaking of the bread and through many other "unobserved, unguessed miracles of grace, contrition, conversion, hope, forgiveness, love, taking place secretly in the human soul."

He is hidden in everyone, Houselander said, but we must have the eyes of faith to see Him.

 "He may come as a little child, making enormous demands, giving enormous consolation; He may come as a stranger, so that we must give the hospitality to a stranger that we should like to give to Christ; He may come to us in His Passion, disfigured by our sins and all sin, asking the utmost courage of us, that we may not be scandalized and may believe. He may come to us as a servant and compel us to the extreme humility which accepts His service, as Peter had to do, when He washed his feet, and as the disciples did with unquestioning joy, when He cooked their little meal on the seashore."

Perhaps the most difficult place to find the Risen Christ is in ourselves, she said, because we see ourselves as so unworthy. But we all have the means to radiate our Lord to others: "words, a human voice, sympathy, hands to serve."

Remember, the Risen Christ is appearing to us, and "the only condition for finding and recognizing the Risen Christ today is that we love Him: not power, chance, or virtue, but only love."

Inspired by the Year of Faith, Susan Szalewski began writing weekly columns for us. Although that year is over, we liked them so well that we asked her to keep writing. Thankfully, she said yes. So watch for these on Thursdays and see the Year of Faith Blog here.