"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.”
-Mother Theresa
Wednesday,
February 1st, the Wednesday of Catholic Schools Week, found 49 Bishop
Ahr students, Sister Cynthia, Deacon Rich, Mr. Harry Ziegler, Ms. Liz
Savner, Mr. Matt Roche, Mrs. Donna Hrabar, Mrs. Denise Markert, Mrs.
Terry Aiken, Mr. Robert Lench, Mrs. Karen Wilton, Ms. Lilly Acab, Mrs.
Dot Machovic, Ms. Brittany Klimczak, and Fr. Keith Cervine putting
together 400 bagged lunches for the CSAC “CHANGE” the World Project!
Into each bag of lunch was put a sandwich, a napkin, 2 snack items, a
bottle of water, and lots of love.
The week
before, the freshmen students in Mr. Matt Roche’s religion classes
decorated and wrote notes on each bag. The recipients of the bag were
in for a real treat. On Thursday, the lunches were delivered to TASK
(Trenton Area Soup Kitchen, Trenton, NJ) by the BGA maintenance staff.
Before
beginning the project, the group prayed asking God’s blessings on those
who would receive the lunch bags and also on us as we made the
sandwiches. On this feast day of St. Thomas Aquinas, who is the patron
of the high school, our prayer ended with a resounding "St. Thomas
Aquinas pray for us."
Making sandwiches was a
new experience for some of the students. There were lots of smiles and
much laughter as the students attempted to complete this NEW experience!
The table where the sandwiches were made had as much peanut butter and
jelly on it as the sandwiches that were made!
All
of the bread, snacks, water, peanut butter and jelly, bags, and napkins
were purchased with money collected from the BGA students on a Dress
Down day for the poor. This was once again a total BGA community
project – everyone helped – the maintenance staff, faculty, staff,
students, alumni, and parents! Thank you to all who helped our “Change”
the world project to provide lunches for the poor.
The
CSAC “Change” the world project was one small action that helped us
here at Bishop Ahr High School follow Pope Francis’ call to go out of
our way and help “change” the life of the poor.
Monetary donations for the project can always be made by calling Sister Cynthia at
(732) 549 – 1108, ext. 648.
