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St. Anthony School celebrates Centennial Jubilee with bishop
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February 24, 2012ROBSTOWN, Texas - Students at St. Anthony School in Robstown took a novel approach to National Catholic Schools Week, combining the event with the Centennial Jubilee of the Diocese to promote learning in the classroom. To cap their celebration they invited Bishop Wm. Michael Mulvey to join them for the occasion.
Students in Noemi Gonzalez’s eighth grade history class researched the history of the five oldest parishes in the diocese and decorated hula hoops with banners displaying the names of this first five parishes, which began to spread of faith in our diocese. The hoops were the same colors of the rings represented in the Olympics games.
Students Miranda Quintanilla, Jackie Velasquez and Sydney Fleury helped their teacher decorate the hoops and John Charo, Troy Gonzalez, Miranda Quintanilla, Anna Cisneros and Lourdes Cortez served as runners passing a lifelike torch as they ran around the church.
The event showed the school’s observance of the diocese’s upcoming Centennial Jubilee.
Bishop Mulvey celebrated Mass before the activities got started. Father Tony Blount, SOLT, Father George Nedeff, SOLT, and Father Mike Crump, SOLT, concelebrated the Mass with Bishop Mulvey.
After Mass, students, faculty and parents invited the bishop to join them in front of the church to participate in the torch relay. When the last runner arrived in front of the church, the torch was handed to Bishop Mulvey and he lit the lifelike flame that symbolized the official beginning of National Catholic Schools Week at St. Anthony School and the light radiating a tradition of faith of our diocese.
As soon as the bishop received the “faith torch,” five balloons were released. After that, Bishop Mulvey spoke to the students about the Centennial Jubilee.
“The bishop took time visiting all our classrooms from K3 through 8th grade, including a brief tour of our multi-purpose building construction. He joined the middle school students at lunch time,” school principal Sister Paz Aribon, OP, said.