Last week, our third graders learned about the Feast of Pentecost, and how the Holy Spirit is our helper and guide. They created self portraits with “tongues of fire” to show how the Spirit is always with us. #Pentecost #HolySpirit #comeHolySpirit #CatholicEd #SMStheplacetoBEE
Tonight (5/22) is the last set of talks with St. Mary's Parish Mission guest speaker, Karlo Broussard. Karlo's talk at 6:30 p.m. is entitled, DEFENDING MORAL TRUTH IN A MORAL SHAME CULTURE. He will follow with a second presentation at 7:50 p.m., THE NEW RELATIVISM: UNMASKING THE PHILOSOPHY OF TODAY’S WOKE MORALISTS.
St. Mary's has been blessed to have such a renown, knowledgeable, and faith-filled speaker with us as part of our 175th Anniversary celebration.
Mrs. Catherine Friedman, a parishioner at Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, was a guest speaker for grade 6 this am. She shared the story of Our Lady of Fatima's apparitions in 1917 to three shepherd children in Portugal, in preparation for the class's field trip to the Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima tomorrow. Catherine has a strong Marian devotion & was happy to share with our students! #FatimaShrine #ourladyoffatima #ladyoftherosary #marysmonth #May
Enjoying the monuments tour.
Comment if you know where this Mary is! #wheresMary #Marysmonth
Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women, & blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now & at the hour of our death, Amen.
Join us tonight at 6:30 PM in St. Mary's Church to hear Karlo Broussard speak on Apologetics for an Age of Unbelief: A how-to approach for dispelling the major cultural myths that serve as obstacles to faith.
Followed by: Meeting the Protestant Challenge:
Karlo gives five bible passages that Protestants commonly use to challenge Catholic beliefs and explains how to respond.
Karlo Broussard is a staff apologist for Catholic Answers and a national speaker.
Reminder - 2024 yearbook orders are due tomorrow! Order online at the link below, or send payment & a note into school with your student by 5/22. Don't miss out on your chance to commemorate a great year! #SMStheplacetoBEE 💙🐝🤍 https://stmaryswormville.ejoinme.org/yearbooks
Visiting the United States Capitol.
St. Mary's Wednesday Evening Rosary is canceled tomorrow, 5/22, to enable people to attend the last evening of the Parish Mission at 6:30 PM. Topics will be: Miracles: God's Light in the Darkness of Unbelief and Today's Relativistic Culture.
Enjoying the White House Tour.
The 8th grade visited the US Marine Corp War Memorial this morning. You may be wondering why they are in their uniforms...they will be participating in a special tour of the White House and capital and want to represent SMS well.
Mrs. Bishop & Mrs. Wojtaszek finished up 6 weeks of "Healthy Steps" with grades 1 & 2 yesterday! The students had fun making healthy snacks & walking outside each Mon. afternoon. They learned about making healthy snack choices & that movement is important to keep our bodies & minds healthy & strong! #healthysnacks #walking #strongbodies #strongminds
Comment if you know where this Mary is! #wheresMary #Marysmonth
Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women, & blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now & at the hour of our death, Amen.
St. Mary School students on WGRZ's "Most Buffalo": https://www.wgrz.com/video/entertainment/television/programs/most-buffalo/students-release-trout-in-ellicott-creek/71-f0766d98-0381-4872-bc27-7340e403833b
Keep our Class of 2024 in your prayers this week as they journey to Washington DC for their class trip!
Prayer for a Safe Journey: O Lord, we humbly ask you to give Your Almighty protection to all travelers. Accept our fervent and sincere prayers that through Your great power and unfaltering spirit, those who travel may reach their destination safe and sound. We thank you, Oh Lord, for Your great mercy and unending love to all mankind and for extending Your arm of protection to all travelers. Amen.
We appreciate Fr. Mike for starting day 2 of our Parish Mission out with a powerful prayer. Karlo gave a wonderful talk this morning that increased our understanding of Peter as the first Pope, the succession of popes, and the role of the Pope as the leader of the universal Catholic Church. Karlo answered several good questions and stayed to answer others afterward. We look forward to more talks that will help us all to be better disciples of Christ:
Tonight, May 20:
6:30 PM ~ Religion: Why Should I Care
It’s often said that what folks need (especially teenagers and young adults) a reason to care about religion in the first place. Inasmuch as happiness is linked to religion, it becomes clear why religion matters.
7:50 PM ~ Cajun Accordionist to Cajun Apologist: The Life Testimony of a Cradle Catholic
Karlo will share his story of how he left a promising musical career in Southern Louisiana to become a Catholic apologist.
Tuesday, May 21:
10:00 AM ~ Bible Blueprint for Marian Dogmas
Karlo gives biblical evidence for the four major Catholic Marian dogmas—namely, her title as Mother of God, her perpetual virginity, her freedom from sin, and her bodily assumption.
6:30 PM ~ Apologetics for an Age of Unbelief
A how-to approach for dispelling the major cultural myths that serve as obstacles to faith.
7:50 PM ~ Meeting the Protestant Challenge
Karlo gives five bible passages that Protestants commonly use to challenge Catholic beliefs and explain how to respond.
Wednesday, May 22:
10:00 AM ~ Miracles: God’s Light in the Darkness of Unbelief
Karlo responds to objections that skeptics give to the possibility of miracles and offer credible historical evidence that miracles have occurred, as in the case of the resurrection of Jesus, and the miracles documented throughout Catholic history.
6:30 PM & 7:50 PM ~ Today's Relativistic Culture through a Catholic Lens
Karlo will help us to understand the Catholic teaching on various relativistic ideologies present in today's society and how to charitably respond to them.
St. Mary’s Church, 6919 Transit Road, East Amherst, NY 14051
Watch for our wonderful 3rd grade students & chaperones, Mrs. Witkowski, Mr. Reeds & Mrs. Lougen on TV sometime today! We took a field trip to Glen Park in Williamsville to release the trout from our #TroutInTheClassroom program and #WGRZ Channel 2 News came to cover it!
#MondayMotivation #virtueofthemonth #May #kindness #CharacterEd
Comment if you know where this Mary is! #wheresMary #Marysmonth
Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women, & blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now & at the hour of our death, Amen.
Grade 4 led us in the liturgy at school Mass on Friday am. Fr. Joe presided, and impressed upon the students that our lives are full of relationships of love and sacrifice, and we need to get to know one another to determine what kind of love and sacrifice each person needs.
