{"id":1603,"date":"2019-12-05T10:53:12","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T18:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stalseattle.org\/school\/?p=1603"},"modified":"2019-12-05T10:53:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T18:53:12","slug":"principals-corner-december-5-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stalseattle.org\/school\/blog\/archives\/1603","title":{"rendered":"Principal&#8217;s Corner: December 5, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<table width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<table width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"600\">\n<table style=\"width: 100%;\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 99.5585%;\">\n<h3><strong>Message from the Principal<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Hello St. Al Families,<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the season of Advent.\u00a0 Monday our school met together to begin our Advent festivities.\u00a0 We kicked off the morning by saying a special prayer before lighting the first candle in our wreath.\u00a0 I shared with the students the symbolism of this first candle\u2014hope.\u00a0 Hope can be a difficult concept at times.\u00a0 We lead busy lives and encounter many trials.\u00a0 We watch the news or walk down the street and can often be discouraged by the suffering we see or experience.\u00a0 Maybe you are experiencing a trying time of your own and hope feels too far away.\u00a0 That\u2019s when we need God.\u00a0 He is our hope.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nMonday, I gave the students a challenge of finding hope in a moment that might normally discourage them.\u00a0 We will end the week with students then being challenged to find a way to take that hope they found and share it with someone, help someone else find hope.\u00a0 This may be a donation or saying hello and smiling if someone looks sad.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t have to be a large gesture to be one full of hope.\u00a0 You could even get the whole family involved.\u00a0 Think about something you can do as a family this weekend that can provide hope to someone who needs it.<\/p>\n<p>I love that this is how we get to begin the Advent season, thinking about all of the love and support God has waiting for us.<\/p>\n<p>Blessings,<\/p>\n<p>Kathleen Daspit<\/p>\n<p>Principal<\/p>\n<p>St. Alphonsus Parish School<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Message from the Principal Hello St. Al Families, Welcome to the season of Advent.\u00a0 Monday our school met together to begin our Advent festivities.\u00a0 We kicked off the morning by saying a special prayer before lighting the first candle in our wreath.\u00a0 I shared with the students the symbolism of this first candle\u2014hope.\u00a0 Hope<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-principals-corner"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - 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