Click to RateNo reviews yet... Be the first to review!An anonymous donor made this new offer, thanks to the success of our previous matching gift challenge. Please help us meet our new challenge by February 2017. Thursday, March 16, 2017 at 11:00am and A Vespers Prayer Service, Wednesday, March 15, 2017 at 7:30pm RSVP to Mrs. Bradley at 561-952-2846 March 14, 21, 28 and April 4. Click Here for More Information. Click Here for our Full Lenten Schedule This is a spiritually uplifting weekend experience that takes place right here in our parish, while you go home to sleep in the comfort of your own home. Register Now in the parish office. For additional information contact Cindy McLaughlin at 561.239.6026 or Andrea Lewin at 561.952.2852. Click Here for Registration Form March 12 at 7pm inside the SJA Mercy Center March 11 – 10am to 12pm – In the SJA Chapel Availability on a first come first serve basis. Registration deadline for Session 1: April 30th.
Available for children entering Pre-K4 through 5th Grade for the 2017/18 School Year. Hosted By Monsignor Michael D. McGraw Featuring: Rountrip airfar from Miami, first class/select hotels, most meals, comprehensive sightseeing with a professional tour guide, entrance fees, perterate & hotel service charges. Click Here for a printable brochure that includes itenerary and registration form! ST. JOAN OF ARC’S PARISH CAMPUS EVOLVES INTO THE NEW YEAR 2017 – ALLELUIA! Click Here to read a special message from Monsignor Michael D. McGraw about the exciting changes taking place at Saint Joan of Arc! Our Blue Ribbon School of Academic Excellence St. Joan of Arc Catholic School is accepting applications for the new school year. For additional information please click here. REGISTER FOR RELIGIOUS EDUCATION! Register for our SJA Religious Education Program. Download the Registration Form 2016-2017 here. Download the Tuition Payment Form 2016-2017 here.
WE DID IT AGAIN in 2016! We are very proud to announce that again in 2016 our St. Joan of Arc Alumni received top high school honors! Congratulations to Haley Madison Scaggs – 2016 Valedictorian at Cardinal Gibbons High School, Eric Heinlein – 2016 Valedictorian and Amparo Pareja – 2016 Salutatorian at Saint John Paul II Academy, reaffirming that SJA School is A Foundation for the Future! CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR SJA & GIRLS SOFTBALL RUNNERS UP! We are very proud of our teams comprised of athletes from 5th to 8th Grade. Way to go SJA Gators! See school page for pictures! 2 NEW FUNDS TO SUPPORT OUR SCHOOL These funds were created to give donors the opportunity to enhance and enrich the legacy of Faith Formation through the strong foundation that a Catholic Education provides. 2 new funds details CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR SJA ALUMNI WHO REAFFIRM THAT ‘St. Joan of Arc Catholic School is A Foundation for the Future!’ SJA Alumna Haley Madison Scaggs, at Cardinal Gibbons High School.
SJA Alumni Eric Heinlein, 2016 Valedictorian at Saint John Paul II Academy SJA Alumna Amparo Pareja, 2016 Salutatorian at Saint John Paul II Academy SJA Alumni Christian Falgons, 2015 Valedictorian at Pope John Paul II High School. SJA Alumna Esther Ponce de Leon, 2014 Valedictorian at Pope John Paul II High School. SJA Alumna Julia Lewis, at Pope John Paul II High School. SJA Alumna Alexandria Orrizzi, 2013 Valedictorian at Cadinal Gibbons High School. SJA Alumni Peter Giaquinto, 2013 Salutatorian at Cardinal Gibbons High School. SJA Alumna Christine Sullivan, 2013 Salutatorian at Pope John Paul II High School. SJA Alumni John Thomas Homrich, 2013 Salutatorian at Boca Raton High School. For more details visit our School home page Make us your home page Could hops be Florida's next big crop? Researchers aren't so sure yet Foster mom charged in death of boy headed for adoption Counselors, memorial greet students and staff at Lakeland school rocked by Brandon murder of teacher, assistant principal
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The Lego Movie doesn't simply put imagination into practice but celebrates it, makes it integral, in a late development so uncharacteristic for an animated film that it's a wonder unto itself. Curses on anyone who'd spoil the path Lord and Miller send their movie down, so cleverly sentimental and consistent with the movie's theme that it's unprotestable. Movies have drawn tears from me with technical perfection, others with poignancy. This one does it both ways. The interlocking bricks, blocks and characters of Lego toys would seen unlikely tools for a breakneck adventure, unless you've seen the toy company's stop-motion Star Wars and DC Superheroes satires, or fan-created YouTube treats like a Blues Brothers car chase. Anything is possible with innovation and patience. Lord and Miller, the punny minds behind the Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs franchise, take up that challenge with numerous CGI embellishments that aren't glaring cheats. Like last year's Wreck-It Ralph, The Lego Movie maintains its retro charm under state-of-the-art conditions.
The plot could be concocted by a kid with too much time and Legos on his hands. In a lockstep society where according to the peppy earworm Everything Is Awesome but really isn't, a comfortably dumb factory worker named Emmet (voice of Chris Pratt) is content to live by the instruction manual provided by President Business (Will Ferrell). Everything is corporate, regimented and under constant surveillance, defending against the parallel world prophecy of a "Special One" to come, spelled out by funky wizard Morgan Freeman to the prez's alter ego, Lord Business. To everyone's surprise Emmet is the Special One, the greatest of all Master Builders, to be aided by a radical named Wyldstyle (Elizabeth Banks) in a quest to locate the Piece of Resistance that can save the Lego universe. They'll be pursued by the president's black-ops expert, Good Cop/Bad Cop (Liam Neeson, being silly), and assisted by Wyldstyle's boyfriend, Batman (Will Arnett), in the movie's funniest example of Lego's capacity for plastic culture clashes.
The Lego Movie looks like no movie before it, thanks to an essentially cubist design already established that no other project could successfully pitch. The essentially static nature of the toy inspires remarkable movement; ocean waves rolling like endless deep blue escalators, a construction site collapsing in a right-angle heap. The traditional Lego character's lack of mobility becomes a running gag, without knees or elbows, only a swivel neck and feet typically pegged in one place. Their round heads are allowed more fantasy; thinly drawn eyebrows and lips expressively curl, with snap-on hair for slo-mo head shakes. As stiff as the characters are, their vocalists play loose and frisky, including cameos from Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill and a couple of Star Wars icons in the mix. The jokes fly at a pace demanding viewers to either refrain from laughing (highly unlikely) or see The Lego Movie again to catch all the wondrous sights and amiable wit sliding by the first time. And to again be moved by cinematic climax, when sensory delight gives way to emotional depth and the essence of imagination is revealed.