Nearly 3,000 students faculty and staff of the Catholic Schools of the Lansing Region gathered for Mass at the Lansing Center on Tuesday, April 23. Rev. Steven Mattson, Superintendent of Catholic Schools for the diocese, was joined by the pastors and parochial vicars of the 13 Catholic schools of the region. In his homily at the Mass, Father Mattson recognized the faculty and staff of the schools; he also reminded the students to live out the faith being taught to them, and to remember to thank their parents for the sacrifice and the choice they have made to send their children to Catholic schools. This was the first time that all of the students of the area Catholic schools had gathered together for Mass.
Schools in attendance were: St Mary, Charlotte; St Thomas Aquinas, East Lansing; Holy Trinity, Fowler; St Michael, Grand Ledge; Immaculate Heart of Mary / St Casimir, Lansing; Resurrection, Lansing; St Gerard, Lansing; Lansing Catholic Central High School; St Martha, Okemos; St Paul, Owosso; St Joseph, St Johns; St Mary, Westphalia; and, St Mary, Williamston.