St. Luke Weekly Memo

Dear St. Luke Families,

A very Happy Mother’s Day to all our Mothers, Grandmothers, Aunties who we are blessed to have in our lives. I hope this day is filled with love. This month provides us with an opportunity to focus on our relationship with the Holy Mother. Have your children say a prayer to Mary this week as she has so much to teach us and endless love to give.

Monday our online learning begins again. Thank-you to all of you who are working so hard at keeping students actively participating online. We have seen great success with student attendance so far and look forward to that active participation again. Please reach out to your child’s teacher or myself if you are having any difficulty with technology or any other issues. We are more than willing to assist you.

Thank-you to those who have been sending in pictures of your child’s online learning. We are looking for more pictures of online learning to put into the yearbook. Please email your child’s teacher or send them to myself at cathyhi@eics.ab.ca.

This Sunday begins Catholic Education week.”Those Who hope in the Lord will renew their strength” - Isaiah 40:3. We will celebrate by wearing blue on Thursday. Have your child wear blue and send in your pictures or tweet them out.

#IbelieveinCatholicEd #BlueforCatholicEd #choosejoy

Enjoy the beautiful week,

Cathy Hinger

Principal

My dear OLPH friends,

By now you will be aware that we are limited to a maximum of 15 people attending Mass in the parish. This includes priest, musician, etc. This is effective today, May 5, 2021. I will send something more comprehensive once we come up with an implementation plan for who gets to come to Mass. For now, please know that you will receive an email or a phone call asking you to not attend Mass, because you signed up after the first fifteen folks. This is for weekday and weekend Masses. Please know that we are considering fairness as a major part of this planning. Please do not just show up. There will be no wiggle room and I am the last person who wants to turn you away at the door. But I will have to, so please do not put us in that position.

My friends, we can like it or not like it, but we still operate on the premise of being part of the solution and not part of the problem. I do know you understand this. Please let us pray for one another and know that our livestream at www.olph.ca, Telus channel 877 and phone options at 888-657-4808 for Masses are fully available to you at this time.
If you have thoughts about how to move forward, please send them to jcorrigan@olph.ca

God’s blessings,
Fr. Jim

Join us this Monday for our School Council/Parent Association meeting with this Google LInk.

May 10 - May 14th ONLINE LEARNING FOR All STUDENTS

Masses at OLPH will be livestreamed. Please join using this link. https://www.facebook.com/olphsherwoodpark/videos/

Visit OLPH Website for more information about the parish and in regards to sacremental preparation.

Read the lastest bullitin from OLPH. First Sunday of Lent!

www.facebook.com/olphsherwoodpark

St. Francis of Assisi parish is administered by Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Sherwood Park. Please contact the parish for confession times and more information.

Clergy: Reverend Jim Corrigan, Pastor

Mass Time: Sunday 11:00

Email Address: StFrancisAssisi.Tofield(at)caedm.ca

5523 - 50 Street Tofield, AB T0B 4J0

See map: Google Maps

Phone: 780-467-5470

Mrs. Cathy Hinger

Principal

Email: Stl@eics.ab.ca
Website: stl.eics.ab.ca
Location: 22139 South Cooking Lake Road, Sherwood Park, AB, Canada
Phone: 780-922-5920
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stlukeeics
Twitter: @stlcs_EICS

SPIRIT WEAR FUNDRAISER

Thank you to everyone that participated in our Spirit Wear Fundraising campaign in March! With your support, we were successful in raising $188.70 in support of our students.

Please note, refunds have been issued to those that purchased items where the minimum order was not reached.

ST. LUKE PARENT ASSOCIATION SPRING FUNDRAISER

Though we have had to cancel our annual St. Luke Plant Sale again this year, we are proud to continue to support local with the sale of gift certificates for South Cooking Lake Greenhouses. While we will miss seeing everyone come out for this much anticipated annual community event, we are happy to continue to provide the opportunity to help people beautify their spaces as well as purchase the perfect Mother’s Day gift, all while supporting the students of St. Luke as well as our local and much-loved greenhouse.

Things to know:

• Certificates are sold in $25.00 denominations only
• Funds for purchase can be e-transferred to St. Luke Parent Association at stlukepatreasurer@gmail.com (no password necessary)
• Please put your child’s full name in the memo area as gift certificates will be sent home with your oldest child. If other arrangements are needed, please send your request to the email address above
• If you prefer to pay via cheque, please send your request to the above email address to make arrangements
• The last day for gift certificate sales will be June 9, 2021
• SCL Greenhouses is scheduled to open April 22nd! Be prepared to shop as they started running out of stock by May long weekend last year!

Please check out SCL Greenhouses website at http://www.southcookinglakegreenhouses.ca for information on shopping, hours and items available for the 2021 season.