FORTY-SECOND ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY

Friday, the twelfth of May, two-thousand and twenty-three half past three o’clock in the afternoon

Sacred Heart Cathedral

296 Flower City Park, Rochester, N Y stbernards.edu/life-time-free-alumni-audit

Congratulations, Class of 2023!

CLASS OF 2023

Commencement 2023 Reading

PRELUDE

PROCESSION OF STUDENTS, FACULTY, & BOARD OF TRUSTEES

WELCOME

(Please stand)

Mr. Edward W. Kay, Jr. Chair, Board of Trustees

OPENING PRAYER

The Most Reverend Salvatore R. Matano Chancellor

READING

Kathleen Van Damme

St. Paul’s Letter to the Philippians

1: 3-11

MOTET FOR CHOIR

COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS

Rev. Eugene Ritz, M.Div., M.A., J.C.L., Chancellor, Diocese of Allentown

CHORAL MEDITATION

PRESENTATION OF GRADUATE DEGREES

Dr. Matthew Kuhner Vice President and Academic Dean

CONFERRAL OF DEGREES

The Most Reverend Salvatore R. Matano

HOODING CEREMONY ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS thank my God whenever I think of you; and every time I pray for all I of you, I pray with joy, remembering how you have helped to spread the Good News from the day you rst heard it right up to the present. I am quite certain that the One who began this good work in you will see that it is nished when the day of Christ Jesus comes. It is only natural that I should feel like this towards you all, since you have shared the privileges which have been mine: both my chains and my work defending and establishing the gospel. You have a permanent place in my heart, and God knows how much I miss you all, loving you as Christ Jesus loves you. My prayer is that your love for each other may increase more and more and you never stop improving your knowledge and deepening your perception so that you can always recognize what is best. is will help you to become pure and blameless, and prepare you for the day of Christ, when you will reach the perfect goodness which Jesus Christ produces in us for the glory and praise of God.

Mr. Edward W. Kay, Jr.

Dr. Stephen J. Loughlin President

FINAL BLESSING & DISMISSAL

The Most Reverend Salvatore R. Matano

(Please stand) e word of the Lord. anks be to God.