MEDIA ADVISORY
| For Immediate Release January 29, 2010 |
For information: Laura Glaser, Principal, 502/895-5122 |
(Louisville, KY) On Thursday, February 4, at 8:15 a.m. Archbishop Kurtz will lead students at Our Lady of Lourdes School (510 Breckenridge Lane) in a prayer service in the church. At this time, students will present the Archbishop with a long string of socks that represents all of the socks collected by students for the men who are served at St. John’s Center for the Homeless.
Our Lady of Lourdes third-graders are in charge of organizing the prayer service. The students invited Archbishop Kurtz to join them in saying the Rosary because of his devotion to Mary, the mother of Jesus. The students and their teachers decided to tie the prayer service into the school’s monthly service project, which in February is for St. John’s Center. The school sponsors a monthly service project to teach students about their responsibility to reach out to the poor.
Serving grades PK-8, Our Lady of Lourdes is one of 48 Archdiocese of Louisville Roman Catholic schools in seven counties of Central Kentucky. Four hundred thirty six students attend the school, which was named a Blue Ribbon School of Excellence by the United States Department of Education in 2008.
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