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Students create shrines to honor Mary
By Sylvia L. White, news@catholicsun.org
May 15, 2008
Some 160 students at Most Holy Trinity School assembled shrines for the Virgin Mary in preparation for the Marian month of May.
The students competed against each other in the parish Marian shrine contest co-sponsored by the parish Knights of Columbus council and the Our Lady of the Wayside Sodality organization. The two groups recognized the shrine contest winners April 24 at the monthly Knights’ family social.
“It’s a really neat children’s project we’ve been doing for 20 years,” said Patrick Schuller, the state advocate for the Knights of Columbus and a Most Holy Trinity parishioner.
Schuller said the most important part of the contest is “reminding the children to remind their families that May is the month of Mary.”
Third-grader Joshua Puccini won first place with a shrine centered on the events in Mary’s life and seventh-grader Jacqueline Wetzel was runner up.
“It’s really fun for me to make something about Mary because I like her a lot,” Wetzel said. She also felt her shrine could have an impact on people.
Promoting Mary
Judy McAdams, a member of Our Lady of the Wayside Sodality, said the event offered the parish an opportunity to promote the Blessed Mother among the children.
“Sometimes I meet young adults I no longer recognize who come up to me and tell me they still have their statue or rosary they won years ago,” she said. “If only part of the participants have the seed of love in their hearts for our Blessed Mother, we will have been successful in our endeavors.”
The contest takes place every May. Every child who entered the contest received an Our Lady of Guadalupe prayer card. Every child who attended the social was able to choose from various items such as rosaries, miraculous medals and prayer books purchased by the Knights from local Catholic gift shops.
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