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C hurch Y outh Seventh- and eighth-grade students at St. Joseph School in Fairhaven, left, recently participated in a Spiritual Adoption activity as part of their Religion curriculum. Each day for nine months they offered prayers for the lives and well-being of unborn babies they Spiritually adopted. When the time came for these babies to be born, the students celebrated with a birthday party — complete with cake and gifts! Donations of diapers, wipes, and baby clothes poured in and will be donated to Diapers ‘n’ Things in New Bedford. (Photo courtesy of Tracy Travers)
Bishop Feehan High School Class of 2019 graduate Matt Zawaski received the William “Bill” Flaherty Memorial Scholarship. The presentation marked the 25th consecutive year the Flaherty family has celebrated a graduating Feehan student with this award for a student who participated in the Shamrocks’ track and field program. Below, Zawaski accepts the award from Bill’s mother Natalie and brother-in-law Ivan Pagacik. (Photo courtesy of Gina Simoneau)
Thirty students from St. John the Evangelist School in Attleboro graduated on June 7. Father Christopher M. Peschel celebrated Mass and all of the graduating students took part in the Liturgy. Autumn Perry gave the graduate reflection. Pictured above are: (front row) Eliana Dafulas, Adrienne Kyere, Father Peschel, Caleb Smith, Andrew Smith; (second row) Miss Hanah Balsavich, John DiMarco, Jillian Brouillard, Mia Newquist, Jordan Noury, Benjamin Le, Christian Strachera, Sister Mary Jane Holden, C.P.; (third row) Kelsey Muehlberger, John Seitz, Michael Lachance, Taylor DeMond, Alivia Fitzgibbons, Grace Schneider; (third row) Bryleigh Roakes, Jessica Dooley, Kyleigh Arenas, Bridget Sutula, Ariana Bennett, Justin Pieroni, Aidan Killough; (back row) Julia Pelchat, Autumn Perry, Daniel Wehbe, Ryleigh Asselin, Camdyn Asselin, Connor McHale, Avery Blanchard. (Photo courtesy of Gina Cuccovia-Simoneau) June 28, 2019 †
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