September 20

The SAN Script – The week of September 21 – 25

Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.

– 1 Corinthians 10:17

voice of the day

The fact that the Church is literally changed into Christ is not a cause for triumphalism, however, precisely because our assimilation to the body of Christ means that we then become food for the world, to be broken, given away, and consumed.

-William T. Cavanaugh

prayer of the day

Jesus, Bread of Life, we long to enter into a deeper communion with you and with each other. Thank you for letting yourself be broken to make us whole; teach us to let ourselves be broken to help make the world whole.

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St. Anthony this Week

Monday, September 21

8:00 Meeting with Mary Ann Coleman: Natalie, Geraldine – spec.ed

Meeting Mrs.Rupnik and Lindsey Barr re: Kindness class project, Room 8

Paul out 11:00 AM

Tuesday, September 22

Co-op meeting for possible co-op student – if you are interested in having a co-op student please let me know before Tuesday

Young Rembrandts Sign Up Deadline

CCAC- SLP Jane Withers in to work with students

Sheila Cousineau (ASD) in to work on IEP’s – 12:15

Hapara Certified Educator Program Welcome Webinar – 7:00 PM (Paul)

Wednesday, September 23

Elementary Principals’ meeting – Paul out  

Squirmies Forms Due

Thursday, September 24

Recycle Day at St. Anthony Catholic School- PLEASE recycle today!

Fall Cleaning the Capital Event – rain date Friday

cleaning the capital

 

 

 

 

Young Rembrandts Classes After School

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Friday, September 25

Theresa Patenaude, new SLP, to visit Mrs. Rupnik’s Class

Saturday, September 26

 

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brain Pickings

Leisure, the Basis of Culture: An Obscure German Philosopher’s Timely 1948 Manifesto for Reclaiming Our Human Dignity in a Culture of Workaholism

Leisure lives on affirmation. It is not the same as the absence of activity … or even as an inner quiet. It is rather like the stillness in the conversation of lovers, which is fed by their oneness.”

“We get such a kick out of looking forward to pleasures and rushing ahead to meet them that we can’t slow down enough to enjoy them when they come,” Alan Wattsobserved in 1970, aptly declaring us “a civilization which suffers from chronic disappointment.” Two millennia earlier, Aristotle asserted: “This is the main question, with what activity one’s leisure is filled.”

Today, in our culture of productivity-fetishism, we have succumbed to the tyrannical notion of “work/life balance” and have come to see the very notion of “leisure” not as essential to the human spirit but as self-indulgent luxury reserved for the privileged or deplorable idleness reserved for the lazy. And yet the most significant human achievements between Aristotle’s time and our own — our greatest art, the most enduring ideas of philosophy, the spark for every technological breakthrough — originated in leisure, in moments of unburdened contemplation, of absolute presence with the universe within one’s own mind and absolute attentiveness to life without, be it Galileo inventing modern timekeeping after watching a pendulum swing in a cathedral or Oliver Sacks illuminating music’s incredible effects on the mind while hiking in a Norwegian fjord.

So how did we end up so conflicted about cultivating a culture of leisure?

In 1948, only a year after the word “workaholic” was coined in Canada and a year before an American career counselor issued the first concentrated counterculturalclarion call for rethinking work, the German philosopher Josef Pieper (May 4, 1904–November 6, 1997) penned Leisure, the Basis of Culture (public library) — a magnificent manifesto for reclaiming human dignity in a culture of compulsive workaholism, triply timely today, in an age when we have commodified our aliveness so much as to mistake making a living for having a life.

Illustration by Maurice Sendak from ‘Open House for Butterflies’ by Ruth Krauss. Click image for more.

Wonderful article – you can read the rest here

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Posted September 20, 2015 by mcguirp in category SAN This Week

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