The youth at St. Anne Chapel on St. Thomas are attempting to earn enough money for a pilgrimage to St. Barthelmy with bake sales after Sunday Mass. Many of their parents are descendents of the Caribbean island.
Fr. Charles Crespo, Parochial Vicar at Ss. Peter and Paul Cathedral on St. Thomas, led a Lenten Retreat for the youth of St. Anne Chapel on February 17. Pictured above, the students drew and explained the Stations of the Cross.
Tutors help over 20 youth improve their computer, mathematics, reading and homework skills in the Good Shepherd Center's after school program at Holy Cross Church on St. Croix on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Pictured above, Fr. Slawek Romanowski, CSsR, teaches them soccer at the St. Joseph High School field on Fridays.
The Good Shepherd Sisters have operated the program for the past five years.
An altar server at St. Anne Chapel on St. Thomas invited parishioners to pray about becoming fellow servers. The announcement was made at the end of Mass on February 2.
Twenty-five students from St. Joseph High School on St. Croix were admitted into the National Honor Society in a Mass and pledge ceremony at St. Joseph Church on January 30.
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