St. John Vianney News

Jill Fischer, one of our fourth grade teachers, was recently awarded prizes for being B93.3's February "Teacher of the Month"  Air personality Julie Davidson read two award nominations from the Greco and Reuteman school families.   Every month B93.3 awards a local teacher with great prizes including a Target gift card for school supplies from Layton State Bank, a certificate from BBC Lighting, a certificate for fine desserts from Suzy's Cream Cheesecakes and a plaque from RCB Awards in Wauwatosa. 

Jill Fischer began teaching at SJV in 1998. She previously taught sixth grade at Mother of Good Counsel in Milwaukee and fifth grade in Watertown. Mrs. Fischer is awaiting approval for National Board Certification from the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards for excellence in teaching. This level of excellence is based on the teaching standards established by the Department of Public Instruction. This past summer, she began her master's degree at Marquette University in Educational Policy and Leadership with Principal Licensure.  She has a Bachelors of Arts degree in Social Sciences from Marquette University.   Mrs. Fischer is an alumna of SJV, class of 1987. She, her husband Scott, and their two daughters, are members of St. John Vianney Parish.

On Wednesday, March 19 at 2 p.m. the students of St. John Vianney School, led by CHAMPS (the student council) prayed The Stations of the Cross while dramatizing each station. Seventh and Eighth grade students took on the role of Jesus, Mary, Veronica, Simon, Judas and Roman soldiers in dress and demeanor. Each station was acted, then the actors froze in place while the prayer of each station was meditated. This was a unique opportunity for our students to experience and learn the significance and meaning of each station. 

Throughout the week, the SJV students have been involved throughout the church's observance of Holy Week as altar servers, instrumentalists, ushers and choir members.

Here's a schedule of the remaining Holy Week masses: 

Thursday, March 20, 2008 -- Mass of the Lord's Supper

8:30am Morning Prayer, 7:00pm

Friday, March 21, 2008 --  Good Friday of the Lord's Passion

7:00am Morning Prayer, 12:30pm Commemoration of the Lord's Passion

Saturday, March 22, 2008 Easter Vigil

8:00am Morning Prayer, 8:00pm

Sunday, March 23, 2008  Easter Sunday

7:30am, 9:30am, 11:00am  (Please note: there will be no 5:00pm Mass on Easter Sunday)

A note about Easter Vigil:  Father Hartmann is encouraging all to attend the East Vigil celebration this year.  He is aware that the reputation of this mass is that it starts late and lasts forever.  However, since there are fewer adult sacraments to be celebrated and since Easter is so early on the calendar, sunset (which dicates the start time for the vigil mass) is also earlier than usual.  So, this is a wonderful opportunity to try attending the Easter Vigil mass for the first time:  it starts earlier and will likely be shorter than in other years.

Four of SJV students, Steve Yoss, Nick Veling, Jack Sandstrom, Alex Dorff, were recently chosen as finalists in the Time Warner Cable's Hang Tough video contest.  As the four boys were writing their script titled "Bullying Stinks" and discussing some of their ideas, SJV students Mallory O'Halloran and Kirsten Siladi commented on how inspired they felt by the theme and how they thought it was great that the boys were writing their script.  When "Bullying Stinks" was chosen as a finalist and the SJV scriptwriters realized that didn't have any girls to fill the two girl roles, the boys asked Mallory and Kirsten to join them in filming their public safety announcement!  It's great to see SJV students involved in enouraging other students to lead productive and healthy lives.  Watch the "Bullying Stinks" video -- along with the nineteen other video finalists any time on your schedule on WIsconsin on Demand (WIoD) Digital Channel 1111.