Students receive blessed rosaries

JACKSON – Second-graders at St. Richard School who received First Communion this year were honored at a school Mass. They got to wear their First Communion outfits and were treated to a reception after Mass. At left, Father John Bohn, pastor, hands out rosaries to Vinnie Milton, Jakob Sistrunk, Loftis Garner and George Decker. The Lunardini family had them blessed by the Pope on August 30 of this year and shared them with the school. (Photos by Wendi Shearer)