A 2009 comparison between public and Catholic school SAT scores show that public school students had an overall average of 496 points on the critical reading portion of the test while Catholic school students scored 533 points on the same portion. Catholic school students outscored their public school counterparts by an average of 23 points.
What makes the numbers more impressive is that Catholic high schools spend more than $2,000 less per pupil than public schools.
An anonymous donor has offered the Harold Johnson Food Pantry a matching grant challenge in the amount of $5,000.
This means that any designated donations will equal double that amount. A $10 donation marked "matching funds" will equal $20 for the Delavan food pantry.
Please send donations designated for the matching funds to Delavan Food Pantry, P. O. Box 466, Delavan, WI, 53115.
David & Michelle Zampino, St. Andrew Parishioners, share their stories. Click above to read their story and/or click here to listen.
Mary & Jesus
"Let those who think that the Church pays too much attention to Mary give heed to the fact that our blessed Lord Himself gave ten times as much of His life to her as He gave to His apostles." Archbishop Fulton Sheen
Mary
"Mary is the refuge of sinners. She knows what sin is not by the experience of its falls, not by tasting its bitter regrets, but by seeing what it did to her Divine Son." -Archbishop Fulton Sheen
The First Noel
"There were only two classes of men who heard the cry that night: Shepherds and Wise men. Shepherds: those who know they know nothing. Wise men: those who know they do not know everything." - Archbishop Fulton Sheen
Gospels
“If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.” - St. Augustine
Simplify
"Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be--and becoming that person." -St. Therese
Family
"Everybody today seems to be in a hurry. No one has any time to give others: children to their parents, parents to their children, spouses to each other. World peace begins to break down in the homes." -Mother Theresa
Restless Hearts
"Lord, My heart is restless until it finds its rest in Thee." - St. Augustine
