April 17, 2014
Dear Notre Dame Families,
I would like to wish everyone a Happy Easter and I hope you have a restful and enjoyable Easter weekend. Easter is a great weekend to create wonderful family memories.
The Divine Mercy Novena began as a private devotion which Our Lord revealed to Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska. The words of the prayers were dictated by Christ Himself to Saint Faustina, and Saint Faustina recorded in her diary Our Lord's instructions for each day's prayer. Christ asked Saint Faustina to recite the novena starting on Good Friday and ending on Divine Mercy Sunday, the Octave of Easter (the Sunday after Easter Sunday). The novena can be recited at any time of the year however, and it is often accompanied by the Divine Mercy Chaplet, which Our Lord also revealed to Saint Faustina.
As you enter into the new Easter Season, I would like to encourage you and your families to pray the Divine Mercy Novena. A novena is a series of prayers that are said for nine straight days, usually as a prayer of petition but sometimes as a prayer of thanksgiving. The nine days recall the nine days that the Apostles and the Blessed Virgin Mary spent in prayer between Ascension Thursday and Pentecost Sunday. While the word novena comes from the Latin novem, meaning "nine," the term has also come to be used generically to refer to any lengthy series of prayers; for example, the Saint Andrew Christmas Novena which is recited for more than nine days, between the Feast of St. Andrew (November 30) and Christmas.
Prayer is powerful and can change lives. As Lent encourages us to be more prayerful, let us continue with that spirit into the Easter Season. If you would like to pray the novena, the prayers for each of the nine days can be found at the following website: Divine Mercy Website. Instructions have been sent home with all the elementary school students regarding how to pray the Divine Mercy Novena. Middle school students have been learning about the Divine Mercy Novena during their religion class. Next week after Wednesday's Mass we will pray part of this novena. Please attend.
Camp Invention is returning to the Green Bay Area at Notre Dame of De Pere! We are excited to announce another fun-filled summer with two programs to be hosted at Notre Dame of DePere running the weeks of June 23 - 27, 2014 and July 21 - 25, 2014! Please visit www.campinvention.org for more information and to register. Click
here to view the form that went home with the students. Also being offered this summer from July 27-Aug. 1 is
Totus Tuus. For more details about this camp, click
here
ES Lost & Found is located in the hallway by the Music Room. Please take the time to check it out because you may find an item of yours that has been missing for awhile. Any item that is not claimed by April 30, 2014 will be donated to Goodwill.
MS Lost & Found is located in the hallway to the elevator on the lower floor. This table of items could clothe a family of four for a week. Any item that is not claimed by April 30th, 2014 will be donated to Goodwill.
Volunteer Hours for this year are due by April 30th. These hours should include 12 hours of Third Source Funding events.
Home & School is looking for volunteers for President and other positions. Home & School is a vital organization for our school. Please consider volunteering for one of these positions. Also H&S has some very important news and dates for you. For more information please click here.
The Cafeteria needs your help! We have many slots still available to get in your volunteer hours by signing up to work the lunch/ middle school escort volunteer shifts. You can sign up using the following link:
Lunch Volunteer Sign Up.
Raiderwear is back!! Get your order in quickly. It will only be on sale for a week, sale ends April 25th. For more information and ordering instructions click here.
Let your Light Shine,
Jeff
Click ND Website for information about the following items:
- Good Friday/No School: April 18
- Easter Egg Hunt: April 19, 10:45am @ De Pere Community Center
- Happy Easter: April 20
- All Day School: April 21
- $1 Dress Down Day for March of Dimes: April 25
- First Eucharist Celebration: April 27, 1:30pm @ St. Francis
- Bellin Run Training and volunteering April 7-June 11
- Lourdes Loop 5K Run/Walk: May 10
