Wild Things and Dragon Snatcher

Last night was an evening of concerts. The first was done by the 5th grade classes at St. Columbkille as they told the story of the Wild Things.

The second performance was by the 6th grade class on The Dragon Snatcher.

Seventh and Eighth Grade Spring Concert

Fifth and Sixth Grade Spring Concert

Karly Concert

Our parish is blessed with many fine musicians including Karly Jurgensen who often is the accompanist at the 5 p.m. Sunday Masses. Karly will be playing at the Holy Family Shrine on the Feast of the Holy Family on Sunday at 12:30 p.m. with Mass at 2 p.m.

Music: The Food of Love

David Batter is not only our Adult Choir Director and Liturgist, he is also the Director of the Omaha Chamber Singers. They will have a concert this afternoon at St. Paul United Methodist Church in Omaha.

A Patriotic Theme

A few weeks ago the First Grade students at St. Columbkille Catholic Catholic School sang for the Senior Happy Club. With their patriotic theme, it seems appropriate to show on President's Day.

Happy President's Day!

Concert Tonight

Daniel Oberreuter, how is the lead singer for the band, The Thirsting, will have a concert in our church at 6:30 tonight. He is singing at our Masses today so you can get a sense of him.

Or check out one of their music videos:

Junior Cougar Band

On Wednesday, the Junior Cougar Band, under the direction of Mr. Nick Romero toured three schools including St. Columbkille Catholic Schools. First, a band composed of just the 5th graders played.

A number of the students are from St. Columbkille.

Then Mr Romero introduced the

 band of 6th to 8th grade students.

They played very well and we appreciate the visit!

Reflections

Papillion Jr High School's Reflections Show Choir, under the direction of Monika Peters, performed their award winning show for the Happy Club members at St. Columbkille Parish today:

The Unfinished Symphony of Peace

Wednesday, on the feast of St. Benedict, the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra performed for Pope Benedict. Pope Benedict thanked them saying:

You can imagine how happy I am to receive an Orchestra such as this one, which was born from the conviction, more than that, from the experience that music unites persons, beyond any division; because music is harmony of differences, as happens every time that a concert begins with the “rite” of tuning. From the multiplicity of timbres of diverse instruments, a symphony can emerge. However, this does not happen magically or automatically! It is realized only thanks to the commitment of the Director and of every individual musician. A patient, toilsome commitment that requires time and sacrifices, in an effort to listen to one another mutually, avoiding excessive prominence and fostering the best success of the whole.

While I express these thoughts, my mind turns to the great symphony of peace among peoples, which has never been altogether finished. My generation, as well as that of Maestro Barenboim’s parents, lived through the tragedy of World War II and the Shoa. And it is very significant that you, Maestro, after having reached the highest goals of a musician, wished to give life to a project such as the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra: a group in which Israeli, Palestinian and musicians of other Arab countries play together; persons of Jewish, Muslim and Christian religion...

Also in this choice, in this approach we can see an interesting meaning for us. These two famous Symphonies express two aspects of life: drama and peace, man’s struggle against an adverse destiny and the cheering immersion in the bucolic environment.

Beethoven worked on these two works, in particular on their completion, almost contemporaneously. So much so that they were performed for the first time together – as this evening – in the memorable concert of December 22, 1808, at Vienna. The message I would like to draw today is this: To attain peace one must be committed, leaving violence and arms to one side, committed to personal and community conversion, with dialogue, with the patient search for possible understandings

Hence we thank from our heart Maestro Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra for having given us witness of this way. To each of them, the wish and prayer to continue to spread the hope of peace in the world through the universal language of music.

Kindergarten Christmas Program

This morning at Mass Fr. Damian thanked the Kindergarten students at St. Columbkille Catholic School for helping get us all in the Christmas mood through their program last night.

 

 

 

 

 

We hope you "leap for joy" on Christmas!

 

A Concert after lunch

After the Happy Lunch today, our seniors were entertained by St. Columbkille Catholic School's First Grade students who sang for them.

 

 

 

Here is some of what they sang for us:

As a thank you, each singer received a treat.

Thank you!

Christmas Program Tonight

This morning was the last rehearsal before the Christmas Program tonight. It is being done by the 4th and 5th graders from St. Columbkille Catholic School.

 

 

 

Here's a little video clip to give you a taste of it. You can watch the whole show at 7:00 p.m. in the auditorium at Papillion La Vista High School.

Preschool Christmas Concert

Thursday night was the Sacred Heart Preschool Christmas Concert.

We lined up early and got warmed up to sing.

Then we got ready to sing. 

Our response to Jesus being born was:

After the concert we got a gift.

It was a lot of fun.

Here is a little more from the concert:

Setting the Stage

This morning the 4th and 5th grade students had their

last rehearsal before their perfomance this evening.

 

 

 

If the rehearsal was any indication, it should be a fun show tonight.

A Busy Night at the Steinhausen

Last night was the second of four meetings with the parents of school students. Fr. Damian explained that last year at the parents meetings some suggested that this be done more often. He gave a snapshot of where the school is financially, responded to a few issues brought up in the recent survey and thanked everyone for being part of the school. Mrs. Galing spoke about technology and Dr. Blue briefly spoke about some of her plans going forward.

A group of 3rd to 5th graders had their concert entertaining the crowd.


HSA had their meeting which included a
reporting of the finances and reaffirming the board.

HSA announced scholarships to Kaleena Rains and Nick Larsen.

Nick will be attending Gross High School next year

while Kaleena will be attending Mercy.

And outside there was a bake sale raisng money for Santa Eulalia,

the parish's sister school in Guatemala.