The annual Mass of Remembrance for staff and alumni of Mater Dei High School will be offered this Saturday, September 21, at noon at St Mary’s Church in New Monmouth.
The Reverend Stanley Lukaszewski, known as Father Stas, will be the principal celebrant with graduates of the high school participating in the mass and reading the Memorial Necrology.
All are invited to attend the mass, which honors deceased teachers, priests, nuns, employees and graduates of the high school since its first graduating class in 1965.
Father Stas was formerly at St. Mary’s parish and is now retired and living in Trenton but is returning to participate as he did last year in the mass which has become an annual tradition in Monmouth County.
Members of the Mass of Remembrance Committee include those who have made the commitment to the late Thomas (TC) Murray, the former teacher who instituted the remembrance. They include Mari Campanella Kovach, Class of ’78, Cathy Daniels, class of ’79, and Tom Dooley, Class of ’65.
More than 450 deceased persons will be remembered at the mass.
Kovach also extended an invitation to all who wish to provide updated information to the Mater Dei Prep Memorial Necrology to e-mail her at deckhill@comcast.net. Graduates or their families wanting to participate in the Mass can also contact Kovach.
