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St.
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December 17, 2010
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Saint Henry Catholic School “Soaring with the Lord!” 300 E. Cady Street · Watertown, WI
53094 920/261-2586 · 920/261-3681 (FAX) |
You are called to belong to
Jesus Christ!” St. Paul to the
Romans 1: 6
Since it’s a three-day school week next week and there will be no
newsletter, let me convey the whole staff’s wishes to you and your loved
ones for nothing less than a grace-filled splendid Christmas. I happen to be working my way through a book
called Handbook of Catholic
Apologetics: Reasoned Answers to
Questions of Faith by authors whose breadth of intelligence and knowledge
sometimes takes my breath away. Thinking
about how sad it is that some people, perhaps through no fault of their own,
consider the Christmas story either a beautiful fiction or a glorified version
of the birth of a very nice historical figure but not the Divine Son of God as
Christians claim, I thought it might be interesting to give you a flavor of
this book. The authors often take a
question and answer approach. As for
instance:
Objection: If Christianity is so reasonable, why did
Celsus, Plotinus, Hobbes, Machiavelli, Voltaire, Rousseau, Goethe, Melville,
Jefferson, Shaw, Russell, Sartre, Camus, Nietzsche, Marx, Freud and Skinner all
reject it?
Reply A.
Christianity is reasonable, but it is not obvious. It is more like E=mc2 than 2 + 2 = 4.
Reply B. If
Christianity is so irrational, why have so many brilliant minds accepted
it? The assortment of unbelievers
mentioned above is easily overcome by Paul, John, Augustine, Aquinas, Anselm,
Bonaventure, Scotus, Luther, Calvin, Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, Berkeley,
Galileo, Copernicus, Kepler, Newton, Newman, Lincoln, Pasteur, Kierkegaard,
Shakespeare, Dante, Chesterton, Lewis, Solzhenitsyn, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky,
Tolkien, da Vinci, Michelangelo, T.S. Eliot, Dickens, Milton, Spenser, and
Bach, not to mention a certain Jesus of Nazareth.
Reply C.
Brilliant minds often reject Christianity because they don’t want it to
be true, because it is no longer fashionable or because it commands obedience,
repentance, and humility.
That’s just a taste. As you can
see, it’s an adults-only kind of book but not because it’s X-rated but because
it demands an adult’s mind, education, and understanding that true knowledge
isn’t always gained within a 30 second sound bite!
A grateful word from Katie Schroeder, chair of Kraemer Cheese
fund-raiser:
“The Kringle and Kraemer's Cheese Fundraiser raised close to $1900
profit for our St. Henry's HASA. Thank you to all families who participated
in this fundraiser. Also, a special thanks to the moms who helped sort
the Kringle and Kraemer orders on Friday afternoon - Kelly Beltz, Patty
O'Brien, and Julie Reinhard. Thanks, too, to Michele Uecker for handling
the Kringle portion of the fundraiser and for coordinating a smooth pickup on
Friday afternoon.”
I
would like to add the thanks of all of us to Katie and Michele, volunteers, and
participants. Wonderful! And again, a wonderful Blessed Christmas and
a New Year filled with love, joy, less stress, and much laughter.
Dates to Put on the Calendar
DECEMBER
Friday 17 Mid-quarter reports go home.
Tuesday 21 Student Council’s “ Christmas Theme and/or
Colored Clothing Day”
Wednesday 22 Grade 7 has liturgical roles during 8:15
Mass.
Last
day (It's a full day for K-8) of school before Christmas break
begins. Students come back Monday, January 3.
JANUARY
Monday 03 St. Henry EM mtg. in computer lab, 6:30 pm
Wednesday 05 Grade 5 has liturgical roles during 8:15
Mass.
Athletic
Association mtg., 6:30 pm, computer lab
Monday 10 Third (and last) of the Enrollment
Management Seminar mtgs.,
rectory
hall, 6:00 pm
Tuesday 11 Education Commission mtg., rectory hall,
6:30 pm
Thursday 13 PlanCollege
Workshop, free & open to general public; 6-8 pm (
in
Room 104 with entrance through 300 East Cady
FEBRUARY front
doors.)
Saturday 19 Bi-annual Parish Dinner Auction Event
–
reserve the space on your 2011 calendars!
Memory Verse for January 3-7
“After Jesus was baptized, . . . a voice
came from the heavens, saying,
“This is my beloved Son, with whom I
am well pleased. Matthew 3: 16-17