In first visit to Archbishop Carroll High School, cardinal urges students to ‘come closer to God’
Washington Cardinal Robert W. McElroy celebrated a Feb. 24 Mass at Archbishop Carroll High School in Washington, where he urged students and faculty there to use this holy season of Lent “to make ourselves more and more like who we are called to be.”
“I hope and pray you have a wonderful Lent where you come closer to God and God comes closer to you,” Cardinal McElroy prayed during the liturgy.
Cardinal McElroy was originally scheduled to celebrate Mass at the coeducational high school on Jan. 26 as part of Carroll’s observance of Catholic Schools Week. It was postponed and rescheduled because of the major winter storm that blanketed the region with up to a foot of snow that day and the evening before.