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GINA BARCA | FC
DELRAY BEACH | One did not need to know the language to understand what was going on or to sense what was in the hearts of the Haitian faithful overfilling the pews of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church during the solemn Sunday Mass celebrated in Creole on Jan 17.
“How many of you are affected,” asked Father Roland Desormeaux, Our Lady’s administrator, as he began Mass, the Sunday following the worst earthquake to hit Haiti since the 1800s. Hands of nearly everyone attending Mass went up in the air. MORE...
 LINDA REEVES | FC
At the kickoff Mass Jan. 16, Doris Bloehm pins a nametag on her husband, Charles, a student of St. Anastasia School’s class of 1937.
FORT PIERCE | A Jan. 16 Mass to kick off St. Anastasia’s 100-year anniversary drew faithful who have ties to the parish stemming all the way back to the 1930s.
“We had a little band and I played the saxophone,” recalled Charles Bloehm, 91, a former St. Anastasia student from the class of 1937. “There were six in our class,” he said. “Half are gone. The parish and school were small and everyone knew everyone.”
This month, St. Anastasia begins a joyous yearlong celebration focused on community, faith, family, history and education. Activities are also held with the purpose of bringing families together. MORE...
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