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A Message from Our Principal

Dear Families,

1) May is upon us! May is many things: graduation season, allergy season, tornado-drill season. It is also the month of Mary: Blessed Mother, cornerstone of the Church, full of grace, Queen of Heaven, and the Theotokos (God-bearer) whose historical YES lights the path of missionary discipleship toward which we turn the movements of our mind, body, and spirit. 

In liturgy practice last week, we explained to some of the students the crucial distinction between worship and veneration. We worship God and venerate Mary. God is divine. Mary was fully human, but chosen by God for a very special assignment that she used her free will to carry out. In this way, she is an exemplar of how to use our human freedom to do God's work. 

Due to the cold and wet morning, we did not go outside after Mass last Friday for our planned Marian Procession. Instead, we stayed in church and said the Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary. The 5th decade of the rosary was Mary's coronation. Eight grader Kylie Karwisch crowned Mary while second grader Evelyn Gruner carried a picture of Mary. Both crown and picture are now with the Fatima statue inside school.

2) If you ordered hot lunch on Wednesday, 5/6, we will wipe out those orders and no one will be charged. I forgot to exclude that day on the May order form.

3) There are three shows of the musical FROZEN scheduled for this week. The Wednesday shows are at 1:00 and 5:00. The Thursday show is at 1:30 and is open to parents of cast members only. There is no charge to attend this show. Check out the attached cast list to see who is performing!

4) Congratulations to the following students who will compete for the school spelling bee championship this coming Friday: 5th graders Myka Gray and Benny Grove; 6th graders Kate Bell and Vivi Minges; 7th graders Max Rottner (a defending champ with auto-entry), Dylan Bridge, and SJ Brinkman; and 8th graders Nolan Kerby and Aubrey Stitzel. These students went some combination of first and second in their classroom spelling bees last week. 

5) Big thanks to Brad and Sarah Carmella, Sarah Boyd, and our PTC organization for designing a great Teacher Appreciation Week for the Queen of Peace staff! We are very fortunate to have an active organization of involved parents who are willing to give their time in this way. 

6) As most of you know, we hosted the Lane Library Book Sale this past weekend. It's always fun to see the entire gym filled with books, and always heartening to see how many folks from the community come out and peruse the tables for good titles at incredibly low cost. Many an expert has described reading to be on a slow but inevitable fade into a quaint pastime. There is some data to support this. But, maybe these pronouncements are premature!

7) A friendly reminder that Wednesday's VIP Day is scheduled from 9:00 to 11:00. Dismissal is at 11:00. There is no bus service for the ride home, meaning all students are car riders. There is also no Aftercare service. The only students who can stick around are the case members of FROZEN.

This year's theme for VIP day is PEACE. Mrs. Roell has put a lot of hours into the design of our hallway mural, which highlights the various ways that students believe they can bring more peace into the world with their words and actions. 

8) Field Day is scheduled for Friday, May 22nd. We will have Mass at 8:00 in our field day colors. Around mid-morning, the 8th graders and staff will square off in their annual volleyball showdown, which was pushed to this part of the calendar after bad weather wiped out half of Catholic Schools Week in January. We'll eat lunch a tad earlier than usual--around 11:00, which allows us to begin the games in sufficient time. The one change from years prior is that Flubs will be served during lunch instead of field day. 

9) On Wednesday, May 20th, the high school seniors from the QP Class of 2022 will make a return to the hallways to be celebrated by our current students. We will assemble in the gym for part of the visit so that graduates can share some memories, impart advice, and otherwise have a chance to play the wise-grasshopper role for the tender youth of QP.

Salve Regina, Pray for Us. 

Christ in Self. Christ in Other. 

Sincerely,

Josh

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