Ground Blessing Ceremony

"Under bright hill country skies we prepare for the best in our lives."...When did the lyrics of St. Gabriel's school song more perfectly reflect the occasion? Our community took another step toward realizing the dream for our new middle school building on a mild and beautiful Friday morning last week. On May 18 at 8:00 am parents, friends and grandparents walked down the hill to the new building site. After them, all classes and faculty emerged from the existing school building followed by banners declaring their graduation year. Encircling the site, we sang and prayed in thanks for God's blessings and offered written prayers to place in the new building's foundation. Msgnr. McCabe, assisted by Dr. Knotts, walked the perimeter of the site and blessed the ground and the building's future students. The ceremony helped all present to imagine the existence of the new structure and to appreciate the efforts and many forms of giving which have moved this project forward to this point.