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| Vocation’s Fair brings over 350 young people to Slayton |
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By: JoAnn Biren, staff writer |
February 3, 2010 |
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| "It was a wonderful opportunity for our youth to see the different areas of service there is in our Church. The Holy Spirit was alive and stirring the people!" | |
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The temperature outside was below zero, add in the windchill factor and no one wanted to talk about the weather on Wednesday evening, January 27. Inside St. Ann’s Church, hall and school, the weather wasn’t a factor in the first, of what is hoped to be, an annual Vocation’s Fair sponsored by the Worthington Deanery and the Catholic Diocese of Winona.
The doors blew open at 6:30 p.m.and young people in grades nine through twelve from all parts of the Deanery, along with catechists and interested adults, enjoyed a brief time of food and fellowship before heading into the Church for the general session, a talk from Father Tom Melvin, Winona Diocese Director of Vocations. After the general session concluded the students had the opportunity to attend three break-out sessions to learn more about vocations in the Catholic Church. To read the rest of this article - pick up a copy of the Murray County News or you can read it on line - subscriptions to The Murray County News are available online. Click on the free demo and it will give you instructions on how to subscribe for the online edition. |
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