Don't forget to read on for Spring Enrichments (starts right after Easter) and TONIGHT's Parent Night Out. Speaking of a night-off of cooking: tomorrow dine together at the OLG Fish Dinner, and next Thursday is our annual Soup Supper where our school staff serves you and all friends and parishioners as Lent comes to an end and we bring in our Rice Bowls for the Holy Thursday Mass! Blessing on you and your family this season of Lent and Ramadan!

Mar 30 - Parents Night Out 5:30 pm - See PO section below

Mar 31 - Last day for Care Kit Supply Drive

Apr 3 - Ned's Mindset Mission (assembly 9am)

Apr 4 - Parent Org Meeting 6:30 pm at 4th grade classroom

Apr 5 - Wednesday 2:15 pm Early Dismissal

Apr 6 - Holy Thursday Soup Supper 5:30-7:00 pm

Apr 7 - OLG Spirit Wear - Wear OLG Spirit Gear (+ anything CYO)

May 4 - OLG Spirit Wear Day (moved from Friday to Thursday)

May 5 - Class Pictures All Grades - K-8 in full uniform - This is a 1/2 day with a tight schedule. Please be on time and avoid appointments/travel!

This coming Monday, April 3rd, grades K - 5 get to participate in a special presentation! NED's Mindset Mission is a character education program that centers around three important messages that have lifelong relevance: Never give up, Encourage others and Do your best. During the assembly, students will learn about the importance of these three life skills while also enjoying storytelling, magic, humor and yo-yo tricks. 

In light of the recent mass shooting in Nashville, The Child Mind Institute and Fort Health are providing a free, recently recorded webinar, When the Unthinkable Becomes Normal: How to Talk to Your Child About Mass Shootings. The webinar includes some practical advice around communicating with kids, building resilience, and coping with our own anxiety. 

You can also find a recording of How Social Media Affects Your Child, and What You Can Do To Help

Do you have any ideas about great fundraisers for next year? Send them our way! All ideas welcome! No idea is a bad idea! Even send the crazy ones!

Contact Robyn Campbell or Clare Moffat

We are excited to host Parents Night Out in support of our school. Join your fellow OLG parents on March 30th for wine tasting and small bites anytime between 5:30 – 7 at Princess and Bear Tasting Room. They will generously donate a portion of all proceeds to our school. P&B features small, boutique wineries in France, many of which are owned by women and grown organically. Come support the school and the West Seattle community! 

Join Sandra Watson, OLG Mom & Proprietor of Charcute&Co for this hands-on charcuterie workshop.

April 29th 4-6pm @ School Hall

As we celebrate reaching our Academic Excellence Initiative goal of $50,000 this week, let's now all turn our focus towards our Annual School Fund. The Annual School Fund drives support to our Tuition Assistance programs, as well as special projects and growing our endowment to continue to increase accessibility for all.

While our annual school auction was a great success, we still love YOUR HELP bridging the significant gap between the ever-increasing need for tuition assistance and the funds that are available. Share the news of OLG with family and friends.

Open to 4^th thru 8^th Grade

Something for everyone. Track events – from 50m sprint to 1,600m, Long and High Jump, Softball Throw, Turbo Javelin or Shot Putt. 

Contact one of the coaching team if you have any questions - Dana Elsner or Dan Womac

Sign up here: https://www.teamsideline.com/sites/seattlecyo/current-programs 

Seeking a Coach for 3^rd Grade Girls Basketball

Interested? Please reach out to Dan Womac

We are looking for Gym Monitors on April 1 and April 2nd. Come watch your kid play and earn a volunteer hour or two. A great way to earn those volunteer hours whilst watching some superb CYO Athletics! Contact Dan Campbell for more information.

Thank you so much for participating in last weekend's 2024 Day of Service. A few quick facts:

We appreciate everything everyone did to make this day possible, especially Karen Fitton and Jen Ibach for leading our incredible volunteer leadership team: Colette, Marlo, Catherine, and Molly! Thank you Casey Loose for organizing the school donation drive and to all the school families who donated items. Save the Date for the 2024 Day of Service coming on April 27, 2024 !

OLG received our monthly Annual Appeal rebate check in the amount of $2,227.93! This brings the total 2022 ACA Rebate to $27,475.39. These funds provided new handicap accessible doors in the Church, outdoor lighting near the north church entrance and upgrades to the camera system. Thank you to all who have paid AND continue to pay their Annual Catholic Appeal pledges!

Holy Week begins this weekend with the celebration of Palm Sunday. You are invited to participate in a variety of ways. CLICK HERE for this year’s Holy Week Schedule.

If you love to sew, we can use your talent to help create our altar cloth for this year’s 1^st Communion celebration. Will qualify for volunteer hours. Contact Helen

Thanks to the ACA donations, we replaced the original camera (which was dying ☹) with a new one and installed an additional camera to improve viewing of all our liturgies and hardwired the whole system. Our wonderful camera operators will need time to learn how to use the new equipment, so we appreciate your continued patience. It has been an invaluable ministry to many, but in particular our homebound and parishioners who are sick.  And none of this would be possible without your financial support—so thank you!! 

Fr Kevin's 25th Anniversary of His Ordination (June 10-11) Volunteers Needed

This is an important milestone in a priest’s life and now is the time to begin planning for this joyous occasion. Volunteers are needed to be part of a steering committee to help oversee this effort. Contact Helen

Click for OLG Parish Website

Our parish’s Leadership Team is committed to keeping parishioners up to date on this important Archdiocesan’s initiative to respond to current realities facing parishes. CLICK HERE for the Team’s most recent update, including an updated timeline and information about next steps.

THIS WEEK’S QUESTION: Can you define what it meant by “parish” and “parish family”?

A parish is defined as a certain community of the faithful stably constituted within the archdiocese, whose pastoral care is entrusted to a priest as its proper pastor under the authority of the Archbishop of Seattle. Note that the term parish refers to the community of people and not the sacred building designated for divine worship — the church (with a lowercase “c”).

A parish family is a group of two or more neighboring parishes under the leadership of a pastor and one or more parochial vicars. Over time, the parish family will determine its own consultative leadership team(s) and how they may share resources such as staff, campus buildings, ministries and outreach to become one new parish.

Join the 230 participants already registered for OLG’s annual fundraiser.  Don’t’ delay as prices increase April 17.     

Can’t participate but still want to get involved? 

Sign up to volunteer!  This event isn’t possible without the over 75 amazing volunteers needed. There is something for everyone. 

Our Lady of Guadalupe, Pray for Us!