St. Ambrose students to join parish celebration

Submitted on March 12, 2009

Send to friendThe annual St. Joseph celebration at St. Ambrose Parish on the Hill is expanding this year to include the students in St. Ambrose School. This year’s parish celebration will be March 22, the Sunday following the traditional March 19 observance of the feast of St. Joseph. Two altars will be set up in the school cafeteria. After 7 a.m. Mass, the pastor, Msgr. Vincent Bommarito, will bless the side altar, which will have bread, cookies and other food available for sale. He will bless the cafeteria’s main altar after 11 a.m. Mass. From noon to 3 p.m. Italian specialities will be available. Mass will be sung in Italian at 3 p.m., after which all the food on the main altar will be sold, with proceeds going to help needy families. "We want to pass down the tradition of the St. Joseph Altar to our students," said Sister Carol Sansone, ASCJ, the principal. The school children have been busy preparing. All 311 students in kindergarten through eighth grade received small white bags, which they decorated with images of St. Joseph.