The SAN Script The Week of April 7 – 10
An Easter Message
Easter confronts us with the greatest challenge of them all: faith in darkness. Just because we know that what we’re doing is right does not mean that it will be easy. It certainly does not mean that even our best efforts will prevail. It finally does not mean that what we live for will happen in our lifetime.
Mary Magdalene is our model. She was one of the women who, according to Luke’s Gospel, “followed Jesus, supporting him out of their own substance.” She banked her whole life on the fact that the vision of this Jesus would come to fullness.
She believed in him and everything he believed in: She believed in the Beatitudes. She believed that the curing of cripples was a more important moment in time than even the celebration of the Sabbath. She believed in women as he did and in the poor as he did and in the reform of the synagogue. As he did. She believed in him first, before anyone else, and she followed him to the end, even when all the others had disappeared.
She followed him in the light and, finally, like the rest of us, she followed him in darkness. She went to the tomb, to the place where it was clear that failure lay. But she went in the faith that what had come to life in her because of him, even if suppressed in the world around her for a while, could not die. Not in those who had been touched by him. Never in her. Not really.
It was then that she found him risen. Gone. Beyond the grasp of those living in whom there was no life and who had wanted him dead so that their own death-dealing could go on.
The message to us is a clear one. When we follow Jesus, the path is often through darkness to what looks to the world—to us—like failure and defeat. But when we ourselves carry the message of Jesus—when we live the life of Jesus here and now, when we, too, confront the world around us with the blessedness of those poor, those outcast, those foreigners, those women, those voiceless for whom Jesus gave his life—we carry within ourselves the promise of new life. We live the ongoing message of the Resurrection itself: What comes in the name of Jesus will not die. The darkness will not overcome it as long as we ourselves never blow out the light of Truth in our own hearts. Alleluia.
Happy Easter, everyone.
United States Air Force photo by Senior Airman Joshua Strang In this beautiful capture we see Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, above Bear Lake, Alaska. The photo was taken by United States Air Force Senior Airman Joshua Strang, and was awarded first place in the Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2006.
St. Anthony this Week
Tuesday, April 7
chess club
Staff Meeting starting at 3:15 in Learning Commons
Table Tennis today
Just a reminder that the Director’s Forum is taking place on Tuesday, April 7th at St. Paul High School, 2675 Draper Ave.
Student-led displays can be viewed at 6:15 p.m. and the keynote speaker, Joe Mazza, will deliver a message about Keeping Home and School Connected … Communicating in a Digital Age at 7:00 p.m. For more information, visithttp://ocsb.ca/directorsforum
Wednesday, April 8
Paul Away all day CLL
Thursday, April 9
Lockdown practice (AM)
Yvonne Whalen in
Paul away in PM
Young Rembrandts
Friday, April 10
Paul meeting with Andrew (Evergreen) 10:30
Little Horn Theatre * MUSIC/FIDDLE WITH CHAD WOLFE
Little Horn Theatre
* MUSIC/FIDDLE WITH CHAD
WOLFE St. Anthony’s
9:45-10:00 recess
10:00-10:40 (24) Gr 4/5
10:40-11:15 (24) Gr 5/6) *get ready
for lunch upon dismissal
11:15-12:15 LUNCH
Blogging Club
Melisa and Teresa working on Ecoschool Application- afternoon only
This looks like a really interesting resource for our school – to access click on the link on the right or click here
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— Robert Pennington (@robpennington9) April 3, 2015