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Let the children come: New prayer area in St. Lawrence garden

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Fr. Ronald J. Gripshover, pastor of St. Lawrence Church
in Alexandria, blesses a children’s prayer area recently added to the church
garden. Maria Horner, a senior at Saint John Paul the Great Catholic High
School in Dumfries, designed and built the garden with help from
volunteers for her American Heritage Girls Stars and Stripes project. Handprints
from children in the first Communion class were incorporated into the base of
the statue and bench. The project was inspired by Matthew 19:14 — “Let the
children come to me.” 

Photo courtesy Yvonne Horner

 

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