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catholicnewsherald.com | February 12, 2021

PHOTO VIA FACEBOOK Students at Immaculate Heart of Mary School in High Point celebrated the nation during Catholic Schools Week. Students sang “God Bless America” during morning announcements and placed flags outside to honor the country. Lower school students made paper chains celebrating our freedom and middle school students packed bags of sweet treats for veterans. After celebrating Mass Feb. 1 for Catholic Schools Week, Bishop Peter Jugis visited classrooms at St. Patrick School with Father Christopher Roux, pastor. They also helped kindergarten and fifth-grade students with their community service project.

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As part of the Catholic Schools Week celebration, Our Lady of Grace School students in Greensboro honored the local community by bringing flowers and thank you notes and organizing a “drive-by” parade for the Guilford County Health Department.

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Students at Our Lady of the Assumption School in Charlotte watched Bishop Peter Jugis celebrate Mass Feb. 1 during a livestream for Catholic Schools Week.

PHOTO VIA FACEBOOK PHOTO VIA FACEBOOK Charlotte Catholic High School students celebrated with a team spirit dressdown day. Greetings from a favorite mascot made morning arrival a great opportunity for pictures.

PHOTO VIA FACEBOOK Students at Bishop McGuinness High School in Kernersville kicked off Catholic Schools Week by reading to kindergarten friends at Our Lady of Grace and Sacred Heart schools via Zoom.

Bishop’s livestream Mass brings 7,000 students together for the first time for Catholic Schools Week

SUEANN HOWELL SENIOR REPORTER

CHARLOTTE — Thousands of Catholic students across the Diocese of Charlotte tuned in from their classrooms to attend a special Mass with Bishop Peter Jugis, streamed live from St. Patrick Cathedral in Charlotte, to kick off Catholic Schools Week. The school systemwide livestream was a first for the diocese.

Fifth-graders from St. Patrick School next door to the cathedral were among the few attending the Mass in person. Wearing face coverings and sitting socially distanced in the pews, they represented their 7,000 peers at the diocese’s 19 schools watching on the diocese’s YouTube channel from their classrooms – made possible thanks to technology all of the schools have employed to seamlessly offer both inperson and remote learning throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

“You are part of an historic event. This is the first time this has ever happened in the history of our diocese,” Bishop Jugis told students. “We are coming together as one huge Catholic Schools family in the Diocese of Charlotte, all united as one in this Mass.”

In his homily, the bishop remarked on the significance of the livestreamed Mass – telling them that it’s about more than just fancy technology.

“At this Mass we are accomplishing something amazing: to bring together all of the Catholic schools of the diocese, virtually of course, for the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. The Mass keeps us united as one – even though we may be physically many miles apart.”