St. Mary Magdalene Catholic Preschool

We still have some spots in K3 available! Register at the link below

Registration — St. Mary Magdalene Catholic Preschool  Registration 2024-2025 Registration information: Limited spots available. Please use the button below to secure a spot. All spots will be filled in the order that online registrations are received. You will be notified of your registration or waitlist status within 48 hours. To book a tour, please...

We would love to invite our St. Mary Magdalene Catholic Preschool families to attend a date night! This date night was put together by the Covenant and Connection Marriage Ministry lead by a few of our wonderful preschool staff members and preschool families. Get to know our amazing community here at St. Mary Magdalene Catholic Church.

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2024-2025 Registration is now open! https://schools.procareconnect.com/register/3cbedc51-21ac-4bd9-91fa-dad125e564bf

Today we took time to learn and appreciate people in our community who work to keep us safe, healthy and clean.

Thank you to the Mauldin Police Department, City of Mauldin Public Works Department, and our very own paramedic.

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Miss Tammy has been our amazing Reading teacher for many years, giving so many children a solid foundation in literacy. Our thoughts and prayers are with her family as they fight this battle.

Please help the Aho family’s battle with cancer, organized by Katie Waldthausen Tammy is one of the most selfless, loving kind hearted people that … Katie Waldthausen needs your support for Please help the Aho family’s battle with cancer

We have openings in our K3 and K4 classes for children who are age three or four by September 1. For more information, or to register your child, please see our website, www.smmcp.org. Contact the director, Katie Jupena, at (864) 288-4884 ext 4250, with any questions.

St. Mary Magdalene Catholic Preschool Welcome!MORE INFORMATION BELOW Welcome to St. Mary Magdalene Catholic PreschoolEach child, having been created in the image of God, has received from Him the ability to learn. At St. Mary Magdalene Catholic Preschool, our mission is to continue the Catholic education begun in the heart of the family...

SMMCP is expanding and has added an additional K3 class! We have limited openings left in K3 for the upcoming school year. Choose between MWF or TWTh classes.

SMMCP Tours and Information Requests Thank you for your interest in St. Mary Magdalene Catholic Preschool! We'd love to have you join our preschool family. Please complete this form to schedule a tour or request more information about St. Mary Magdalene Catholic Preschool. The Preschool Director or Administrative Assistant will contact...

Happy Mother’s Day to all of our amazing, Saintly, SMMCP moms!

When I am doing ministry with young women, there is one question that comes up often. They ask me, ”Who are the saints in the Church who were mothers...and why are there not more of them?”

There are certainly a few I could name, but I did not have a good answer to the second part of the question until I became a mother myself. A few years ago, I entered into the holy, bewildering, sanctifying adventure that is motherhood, and it was only after this when I realized why there are not more Saints who were mothers...

The sacred work mothers do within the walls of their homes doesn’t often fall under the commonly understood definition of “saintly.”

Changing thousands of diapers with patience and perseverance doesn’t fall under the commonly understood definition of “holiness.” My religion textbooks told me of many beautiful, holy women who wore habits as they served the poor, but they didn’t speak of beautiful, holy women who wore pajamas as they nursed their babies through the night.

To be holy is to lay down one’s life - to die to self - in devotion and surrender to God. When a woman enters the vocation of motherhood, whether biological or adoptive, God indeed calls her to lay down her life for Christ and His Church, all the days of her life.

This is where holiness happens.

This is the unseen holiness of motherhood.

It is a mother navigating her child’s special needs, a mother taking her son with autism to every kind of therapy she could never have imagined existed, a mother researching her child’s newly diagnosed condition in the middle of the night after an appointment that left her breathless and paralyzed with fear of the future.

It is a mother choosing adoption and loving her one, two, or 12 children with a depth and courage so sacrificial when you hear of it or see it with your own eyes it takes your breath away.

It is a mother waiting up at night for her teenage son to get home, worried for his safety, standing in the painful middle between holding on and letting go and trusting that the Lord would take care when she isn’t able to anymore. It is a mother surrendering to the reality and the consequences of every decision her children make, good and bad.

The unseen holiness of motherhood is a mother forgiving her children for shattering her heart in ways known only to her and to Christ who holds the pieces together.

It is a mother wearing a worn-out apron, preparing Thanksgiving dinner year after year while her family enjoys, never once complaining over the silent expectation that she will carry the holiday load. It is a mother helping her son p*e into a bottle in the car during a potty training emergency, a mother packing lunches late into the night thousands of times for the next day of school, a mother educating her children with determination and joy in her home for a dozen years and more.

This is the unseen holiness of motherhood.

It is a mother persevering through 40 weeks of crippling nausea as a “yes” to God’s will to bring one more new life into this world. It is a mother enduring a home birth, a water birth, a birth that felt as though the suffering would never end...it is a mother being opened on an operating table to bring forth new life with the message, “This is my body, given up for you,” engraved onto her body in a way that will never disappear.

It is a mother who is up all night on countless nights for countless years, feeding and rocking and shushing and surrendering to her vocation in the black of the loneliest of nights. New mothers are given plenty of ideas about how to decorate the nursery, but they aren’t told of how those nurseries will become holy ground where suffering is endured and extravagant love is poured out. Saints are made in nurseries at night across the world.

This is the unseen holiness of motherhood.

It is the mothers who gave 100,000 baths and spoke one million bedtime stories and sang one billion lullabies over their children as the laying down of their lives each day. And I anticipate that in 100 years young women will still be asking this question…”Who are the Saints who were mothers? Why are there not more of them?” And this will be the reality and the answer...you will not know who they are. You will not find them on tapestries in churches, you will not find statues of them, and you will not hear their names or see their pictures anywhere. They won’t be the patron saints of anything.

Oh, but if they were.

Oh, but if they were…

They would be the patron saints of diaper changes, Thanksgiving dinners, and sleepless nights. They would be the patron saints of playgrounds, overcoming worry, and potty training. They would be the patron saints of recitals, sports practices, and carpooling. They would be the patron saints of tears and hugs and navigating teenage rebellion. They would be the patron saints of breastfeeding and c-sections, of pregnancy and of the adoption process.

They would be the patron saints of letting go.

St. Thérèse of Lisieux said of her relationship with the Lord, “In the evening of this life I will come before You with empty hands...”

And I do believe this is what an innumerable host of mothers who have gone before me did with arms open wide. They arrived at the radiant countenance of God with stretched-out hearts and stretched-out bellies and hands altogether emptied out from the letting go and the laying down of their lives in ways no soul ever knew.

The vocation of motherhood is soaked with the grit, the surrender, and the holiness that the pursuit of sainthood asks of each one of us - and the multitude of mothers who are Home with God singing holy, holy, holy for all of eternity is more vast than you or I will ever know.

And so, as we celebrate mothers this weekend, let us pray...

All you holy women, those women who died to themselves each and every day out of sacrificial love, surrender, and service of a King...

Pray for us.

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Registration for the 2022-2023 school year is now open!

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Interested in St. Mary Magdalene Catholic Preschool for your K2-K5 child? Join us for an informational session for prospective parents.
When: Wednesday, January 19, 10am
Where: Parish Life Building, Room 106
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We will miss all of our amazing High Fives and K4 graduates but we are so proud of how much you all have grown this year! You are so ready for your next big adventure!!! Just know that we will always love you ❤️

Through the intercession of St Blaise, bishop and martyr, may God deliver you from every disease of the throat and from every other illness. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen

Preschool Registration for the 2021-2022 school year is now open!
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Admissions  2021-2022 Preschool Registration Is Now Open!!   St. Mary Magdalene Catholic Preschool welcomes children of all backgrounds.   REGISTRATION Registration f Read More...

Christmas is love. Share love as you prepare your children’s hearts for the birth of our Lord during this Advent season.

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Our favorite dinosaur-riding priest arrived bearing treats today!! Thanks FrMichael Paul Cellars!

We are so blessed that our amazing teachers have chosen to share their incredible talents with our SMMCP family. Happy World Teachers’ Day!

Remember, We must have a current SC Certificate of Immunization on file at the start of school.
You can email a copy or bring it to Meet-The-Teacher! 🙂
https://www.scdhec.gov/sites/default/files/Library/ML-025708.pdf

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SMMCP teachers are hard at work preparing for the new school year! The transformation has begun!! Can't wait to meet all our new "campers" next week at Meet-The-Teacher 🙂

Welcome to our new Parochial Vicar!

Our New Parochial Vicar
My name is Rev. Mr. Michael Cellars and I was born and raised in Charleston, SC. I am the oldest of four children and have eight nieces and nephews. I am a cradle Catholic and went to Catholic grade school at Nativity and Bishop England High School.
After high school, I attended The Citadel but left after my sophomore year to attend college seminary. I left the seminary and began to work in sales for almost a decade, until deciding to re-enroll at The Citadel to finish my degree. Once completed, I reapplied to the Diocese and have spent the last six years at St. Mary’s Seminary in Houston, TX.
I enjoy spending time with family and friends. Additionally, my hobbies include cooking, barbecuing, golf, and watching the Atlanta Braves. I was ordained July 10 at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Charleston.
His first Mass at St. Mary Magdalene is tomorrow, July 23, at 8:30 a.m.

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