Our Lady of Good Counsel School

 Advent is here!  Prepare the Way!

Thank you to our Grade 7 Class who shared their gifts in leading our First Advent Para-Liturgy this morning.  One of our efforts this Advent Season is to once again to support the Surrey Food Bank’s Tiny Bundles and Toddler Totes Program. These programs are designed to ensure that babies (newborn to 2 years of age) receive their full nutrition requirements during their most important formative years.  Please donate to our “Fill The Crib” initiative over this Advent season.

In this month of November, our students are focusing their efforts in learning about the Saints.  Fr. George spoke to our students November 1^st, at our OLGC All Saints Day Mass, where he encouraged us to be one, and to live a life that is saint worthy.  He told us that the formula for becoming a saint is to do our ordinary work extra-ordinarily well.  We pray that our students strive to be saints in this month of November and throughout their lives. 

Check out this informative youtube video on the life of Saint John Bosco, the patron Saint of the Saleisian order who administer here at OLGC.

  
We have been graced by the talks given by Fr. Mario and Fr. George thus far this year.
 
Father George has given the students two rules to think about: 1. Be here, and 2. Behave.  Students should be here at school every day and ready to do what they are asked to do at the different times of the day.  Please talk about these rules with your children.
 
Father Mario opened this year’s first Mass with a talk on humility and focused on our need for Jesus in our lives.  He asked students to think about how they are Christian without Christ.  He answered his question by saying we are left with IAN; I Am Nothing without Christ in my life. Ask your children what is Ian?