February 9th, 2012 – Pre-K to Grade 6 Open House 5:30pm to 7:30

Catholic United Financial (CUF) Raffle Flier – click to view

 Click on the image to visit the Catholic United Financial official page.

*Families please turn in raffle ticket money and ANY UNSOLD tickets to the office on or by February 16, 2012.  Thank You.

Mass Schedule:

**Wed. 2/8/12 – 8:30am I.C. Church  -  Grade Hosting / Kindergarten

SAVE THE DATE!

*March 3, 2012 – DMCS Scholarship Night – guest speaker will be Sr. Kathleen Hayes and meal catered by Executive Chef Jeff LeBeau

Magazine subscription renewals/orders- use link located to the right.

This video was part of the Divine Mercy Catholic parish 2012 Stewardship DVD.  Enjoy!

February 2, 2012

Dear Families and Friends:

                There are so many wonderful things happening all around our school.  The CUF raffle is going well.  Our Open House is just around the corner and our Scholarship Night is March 3^rd.  We just ended Catholic Schools Week with masses at the parish and a terrific bake sale by our Home and School Association.  In the midst of all this terrific energy we continue to look ahead to next year.  Because of our Open House on February 9^th, we always try to provide the most up to date tuition rates.  On January 31^st we held a meeting with the School Finance Council, School Advisory Council, Parish Finance Council and the Parish Pastoral Council.  We evaluated all of the income and expenditures for both the school and parish.  Just like our home budgets, we have to make sure that we have enough money coming in to pay our bills.  The School Advisory Council (SAC) approved an increase in tuition of 3%.  For each student this works out to be an additional $10 per month if you are on the monthly payment plan.  While we understand the difficulties that we all face economically, we have these same challenges with the school budget.  In fact, this is why we are conducting the CUF raffle—to raise additional financial aid.  We hope that by reaching our $60,000 goal we will be able to give out $150,000 in aid next year.  While this still does not cover all the requests for aid, it will help in the long run.  (Last year we had requests of almost $240,000 for tuition assistance.)  

                We are off to an impressive start with our Catholic United Financial Raffle.  Almost 7500 tickets have been disbursed and people are selling all over the state of Minnesota and beyond.  Because of gambling laws in the state of Minnesota, we need to get all of the tickets back, sold and unsold, so that we can keep track of the tickets.  Please turn in tickets and money to Rosie in the main office or send them along with your child to their classroom as soon as possible.  All of us working together will make this happen!

                If you are due for renewal of your subscriptions, via our magazine fund drive, you can go to our great website, www.dmcs.cc, and follow the instructions listed there.  The student that you have supported in the past will still get the credit for this sale.  The Magazine drive will be in April. 

UPCOMING EVENTS:

February 9—5:30-7:30 PM Preschool-6^th Grade Open House,

invite your friends to come and check out our great school

 and the tremendous work of our students all around the school

February 17—NO SCHOOL, Teacher In-Service Day

February 20—NO School, President’s Day

February 22—Ash Wednesday, Mass with BA at IC at 8:30

February 24—Stations of the Cross at 2:15 PM at IC

February 25—First Communion Workshop 

FAITH MINUTE from the Catechism:  CCC 1889

“This is the path of charity, that is, of the love of God and of neighbor.  Charity is the greatest social commandment.  It respects others and their rights.  It requires the practice of justice and it alone makes us capable of it.  Charity inspires a life of self-giving.”

If you have kudos, comments or concerns please email me or stop by my office.  The coffee is always on.  My email address is bseidel@divinemercy.cc.  Let us continue to trust in God’s providential care.  He is always faithful!

Mr. Seidel

School phone number (507) 334-7706 Cell phone number (507) 384-7827

CHECK OUT OUR TERRIFIC WEBSITE!  www.dmcs.cc