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Class of 2020: A tribute to this year's graduates

High school seniors and eighth-graders, after several months in virtual classrooms, celebrated their graduations in new and creative ways in May and June to accommodate coronavirus limitations.
Pandemic leads to many teaching moments for 2020 graduates

When students of the Class of 2020 pictured their graduation year, it included class trips, traditional senior proms, and final sports seasons. Eighth-graders looked forward to school dances, play performances and saying goodbye to teachers they’ve known for nine years or more – anything but what has transpired since March.
A salute to the graduates of the Class of 2020

This school year has been filled with unanticipated experiences and a discontinuation of all that was routine. Many milestones that define the rites of passage of senior year were not to materialize.
Class of 2020 departs with creativity, faith

As graduation for the Class of 2020 neared, educators and administrators planning farewells for Catholic school students around the Diocese had much to consider, with COVID-19 restrictions still in place.
Senior service projects transcend social isolation, pandemic

The long-standing tradition of Catholic school students performing service projects as their school year draws to a close may have been impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, but resourceful seniors and their teachers didn’t let current circumstances change that expression of faith.
Graduates reflect on their unconventional graduation year

“I have been inspired by the creativity and adaptability of people during this crisis, in my own communities and on a broader scale.”
Bishop O’Connell’s 2020 Baccalaureate Mass homily

This is not the high school graduation celebration you expected when you began your senior year back in September. Who could have imagined then what you are experiencing now and how your senior year would end?
With faith, future looks bright, Bishop preaches in Baccalaureate Mass homily

Students in Catholic high schools across the Diocese may be experiencing graduation season in a new way this year, but one thing will remain constant – the words of comfort, faith and wisdom they will hear from Bishop David M. O’Connell, C.M.
Class of 2020: Here's to a Job Well Done

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Elementary school graduations bring growth but change, too

Nathan Pogorzelski couldn’t contain his excitement about his June 7 graduation from St. Paul School, Burlington. After all, he will be moving another step closer toward his education goal.
PHOTO GALLERIES: 2019 High School Baccalaureate Masses and Commencement Exercises

Jubilation and blessings were bestowed on the more than 1,500 graduates from Catholic high schools in the Diocese of Trenton. Check out these special memories through our dozen photo galleries.
Slideshow: Congratulating the Class of 2019

The Monitor is pleased to join these parishes, schools and other advertisers in congratulating the Class of 2019 and the honorees recognized in “From Harbor to Horizon.”
Slideshow: Class of 2019 Photo Album

The Monitor highlights school Baccalaureate Masses and commencement exercises in dozens of photos as the Class of 2019 graduates from Catholic schools around the Diocese.
A joyous time for youth, a memorable time for loved ones

June is the time when graduates respond with an ebullient, carefree spirit recognizing the joy-filled completion of 12-plus years of education.
'Go with God always,' Bishop advises 2019 graduates

St. John’s Gospel speaks often about the importance of maintaining a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. Learning about that, doing that is the purpose of Catholic education – the purpose of the last four years you have spent in Catholic high school.
Graduates begin new journey nurtured by faith, love

“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for,” wrote American author John Augustus Shedd nearly 100 years ago.

His words have become an analogy for the need to move forward, take risks, have faith and be confident, all of which describe the ambitions and abilities of this year’s graduates as they face head-on the opportunities and challenges of life beyond Catholic high school.

“They are going to make a difference,” said Red Bank Catholic principal Robert Abatemarco, describing the future promise not only for his own graduating students but for the more than 1,500 graduates who were celebrated during Baccalaureate Masses and commencement ceremonies across the Diocese of Trenton.
From Harbor to Horizon

In Masses and special ceremonies throughout May and June, more than 1,500 graduates celebrated their many accomplishments and blessings, leaving the safe harbor of their Catholic high schools in the Diocese of Trenton and fixing their sights on the hopeful horizons ahead.
Graduating seniors make their mark on the athletic field

Whether through their leadership of younger teammates, or their personal contributions on the field, court or diamond, members of this year’s graduating classes at schools across the Diocese of Trenton have left quite an athletic legacy – with a host of accolades, tournament wins and trophies in their wake.
Eighth-grade students take next step in faith

Along with their high school counterparts, this June 1,133 eighth-grade students graduated from the Diocese of Trenton’s 31 Catholic schools.
Slideshow: Congratulating the Class of 2018

The Monitor is pleased to join these parishes, schools and other advertisers in congratulating the Class of 2018 and the honorees recognized in “New Journeys of Faith.”
Grateful for their Stuart legacy, graduates look forward to the future

With gratitude and high hopes for a future founded on the principles and goals of Princeton’s Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart, the Class of 2018 – 38 strong – closed the door on high school June 9 and opened the door to the adult world.
RBC grads are individuals but 'we are not alone'

Between the grueling four flights of stairs and the pilgrimage to and from the Cultural Center, we’ve figuratively and literally come a long way since we first entered the Peter’s Place doors Freshman year.
UPDATE: PHOTO GALLERIES: 2018 High School Baccalaureate Masses and Commencement Exercises

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Look to new adventures, Villa valedictorian encourages classmates

"Lifer" is a term Villa affectionately uses to describe students who have been at Villa for most of their lives...
Villa Victoria grads reminded of a 'forever friend in Christ'

Graduation exercises for Villa Victoria Academy, Ewing, held June 3 in the school’s theater, began with a Baccalaureate Mass celebrated by Msgr. John K. Dermond, adjutant judicial vicar, followed by commencement speeches and awarding diplomas to 12 young women making up the Class of 2018, some of them having attended Villa Victoria from first grade through their senior year.

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