HCCEF Fast Fundraiser Mr. Guerin has committed to supporting the Halton Catholic Children’s Education Foundation this year. This organization has supported the St. Benedict community to date with over $5500. The HCCEF have helped 35 families and 60 students in our school community. In turn, we would like to support this organization with your help.
On May 19th, the Ministry of Education announced that they are extending the school closure period for all schools in Ontario for the remainder of the school year. This decision has been made as a safety precaution to protect our students and staff, and help minimize the spread of COVID-19 in our community. In light of this
Thank you! Thank you to all of you who created cards for Nurses Appreciation Week. We appreciate your thoughtfulness, creativity and good wishes that we shared with the staff at Milton District Hospital. A special thank you to Tim Hortons for donating gift cards to accompany our appreciation! 400 nurses were honoured at the hospital.
Today we honour all the special women in our lives for Mother’s Day. As we enter the second week in May, we also pay tribute to Jesus’ Holy Mother, Our Mother Mary. From Mary we learn to trust, when all hope seems gone. Mary teaches us to surrender to God’s will in all things, loving
Catholic Education Week Prayer 2020 Loving God,You sent your Son, Jesus, to be our hope. We feel his promised Spirit at work within us; We recognize his risen presence among us as we gather in his name in prayer, and celebrate the Eucharist. He is the hope which inspires us to share as members of
On April 26th, the Ministry of Education announced that they are extending the school closure period for all schools in Ontario until at least May 31, 2020. This decision has been made as a safety precaution to protect our students and staff, and help minimize the spread of COVID-19 in our community. In light of
As a staff, we continue to virtually meet everyday to pray that all of our families are healthy and safe. During these challenging times, we call on our faith to support our fears, thoughts and steps forward. Together, we will get through this. Together, we can make plans that work for your family, during these
Distance Learning Check-In We pray this finds all of you in good health as we continue to navigate this new ‘normal’ together. By now, your children should have accessed their classroom’s Distance Learning platforms and have logged on. We hope that by posting a Week-at-a-Glance over the weekend, this will allow families time to organize
Distance Learning for Students We are so grateful for the support and love that we are witnessing during this very challenging time. As a staff, we meet daily to pray for our St. Benedict families, and other special intentions, relying on our Faith to support us through. As we continue to move forward in this
To Our HCDSB family, As Catholics, Holy Week is a marked time of renewal and hope, typically pronounced by the physical church as a visible social institution where our clergy are able to tend to us. During these unprecedented times of a pandemic which has led to schools and churches being closed, social distancing, isolation from family, friends and co-workers, our priests are having to find new ways to connect so that we may