Parish rejoices in new elementary school

Parishioners, teachers, and students prayed for the project every day for 15 years

Students, Father Andrew Stendzina, OMI, and building committee chairman Vic Vela guide Archbishop J. Michael Miller, CSB, as he blesses the new St. Augustine's school Oct. 4. Classes had begun there one week earlier. Agnieszka Krawczynski / The B.C. Catholic.

"Let the little children come to me," read the Archbishop of Vancouver during a celebration at the start of a new era for St. Augustine's Parish. For full story see The B.C. Catholic website.


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Cardinal Thomas Collins of Toronto, right, leaves a session of the Synod of Bishops on the family at the Vatican Oct. 9. CNS / Paul Haring.

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