Can Drive

Mrs. Pepper's 4th Period Class won the can drive, with a grand total of 322 cans. Mrs. Rawlings class came in second with 412 cans.

Friday, May 20th, Mrs. Pepper's Class will be getting down with a Fiesta!

Happy Fiesta!

Help Needed at the Choose Life Anniversary Banquet!

Here's a side project for anyone interested. (I hope all of you are.) Choose Life is holding their annual fundraising banquet on April 28 at the Whitesburg Baptist Center, and they need volunteers to do a variety of work. Jobs and times and attire for said jobs are:

• At least 13 Banquet servers (would also clean up after Banquet), 4:30-9:00, dress in black pants/skirts and white tops/shirts, comfortable shoes (tennis shoes are fine)

• At least 7 ushers (seat guests), 5:30-6:45, dress in church-type wear

• Reception Servers (would also clean up after Reception), 5:00-6:45, dress in church-type wear

As some of you may know, April 28 is also the date of the JPII High Open House, at which several students (such as Maria and myself) will be dressing in our fancy Mass uniforms and showing people around our fancy new building :) Mrs. Smith has kindly offered to bring anyone working at the Open House over to the Banquet after we're done at JPII.

Maria and I will be coming after the Banquet, but I hope that many of you can go on before that as servers and such.

We'll talk about this at our next meeting, clarify things, and get a sign up going.

Can Drive Information

Steps to Winning the Can Drive

Step 1: Go get some nonperishable food

Step 2: Label that food with your religion class period

Step 3: Bring it to your religion classroom

Step 4: Repeat Steps 1-3 until you have collected more cans per person than any other class

Step 5: Have a party!

• All the food we collect will benefit the men of Comunita Cenacolo in Hanceville, Alabama.

• The can drive runs from Monday, April 11th to Thursday, April 21st.

• The food will be taken to Hanceville on Good Friday and will be an Easter gift from JPII High to Comunita Cenacolo :)

Can Drive

Everyone! Our can drive service project has been approved! We need to have poster making supplies at our next meeting so we can get busy and make this happen. :D I'm quite excited for this, yayy! Let's feed the hungry :)

Some Thoughts on Duty

Wouldn't humans be fantastic creatures if we could only commit ourselves to practicing our ideas? The mind outruns the meager ability of the human will, weakened by worldliness and sin. But what separates humans from all the rest of creation is the fact that we can create beautiful ideas, even if we cannot put them into practice. We constantly dream of a better world, more focused on God and love for neighbor. We dream of feeding the poor, saving lost souls, and ending abortion. And yet, we often do not meet these lofty and noble goals, at least not on a large a scale as we would like. But why? So many people believe strongly in such objectives, but they don't assist in completing them, and it is therein that lies the great adversary of our age: apathy. Nationwide obsession with television and the Internet numbs the soul and breeds laziness.

To create a world of joy and peace, a world that already exists in the depths of the human soul, we must overcome this collective apathy and rise to the occasion. Young people must act on the beliefs they already have to bring this world into physical reality, for without conscious human effort, we will never have it.

So don't wait for us all to go pray at the abortuary together, don't wait for us all to find a time to go to adoration as a club. Don't wait to put that idea of yours into action. Say it and act on it. Create the Kingdom of God in your own heart, and it will appear on earth.

I've been thinking about this a lot lately, and I thought you all might like to hear about it :)

Youth in the Pro-Life Movement

Okay, guys, we have to make this us.

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