At Catholic Schools Week Mass, Charles County students learn that saints had homework, too
At a Catholic Schools Week Mass for Charles County Catholic schools, Washington Cardinal Wilton Gregory told students about a famous saint’s homework assignment.
“St. Thomas Aquinas had a very special homework assignment, and he fulfilled it beautifully,” Cardinal Gregory said during his homily at the Mass on Jan. 28 at St. Peter’s Catholic Church in Waldorf, Maryland. “When Pope Urban IV gave him the assignment to write about the Eucharist, he wrote so magnificently that the church has preserved and celebrated his work for over 800 years.”
Students, educators and families from the three Catholic schools in Charles County gathered at St. Peter’s Church to celebrate the beginning of Catholic Schools Week with a special Mass. The liturgy was celebrated by Cardinal Wilton Gregory, the apostolic administrator of Washington.