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NATIONAL VOCATIONS AWARENESS WEEK AWARDS

Father Brian G. Bashista, Director of the Office of Vocations for the Arlington Diocese, presents the Silver Medal award for the Diocesan Vocation SpiritualOlympics to the students of Aquinas. Members of the Student Council and Sister Maria Christi, O.P., Principal, receive the award on behalf of all the students during a school assembly on March 17, 2006.

Brendan Miller, accompanied by his parents Mr. and Mrs. John Miller, receives a crucifix from Father Brian G. Bashista, Director of the Office of Vocations for the Arlington Diocese. Brendan composed the winning prayer in the Diocesan Vocation Prayer & Drawing Contest.

St. Thomas Aquinas Regional School students participated in and received the Silver Award in the Catholic Schools Division of the DiocesanVocation Spiritual Olympics. The contest was held January 8-14, 2006, during National Vocations Awareness Week. Students were encouraged to pray for vocations to the priesthood and the consecrated religious life. In competing for the award, Catholic school students throughout the Diocese of Arlington were asked to do acts of service and sacrifice including extra prayer time, helping those in need, reading the Bible, attending Mass, and spending 15 minutes visiting Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. Each sacrifice was awarded a point.

In addition to the Diocesan Vocation Spiritual Olympics, Catholic school students from across the Diocese of Arlington participated in the Diocesan Vocation Prayer & Drawing Contest. The winning prayer chosen for the Diocesan Vocations Prayer card was composed by Aquinas 2 nd grade student Brendan Miller.

Father Brian G. Bashista, Diocese of Arlington Director of the Office of Vocations, presented the students of Aquinas with the Silver Award in the Diocesan Vocations Spiritual Olympics on March 17, 2006. Father Bashista also presented Brendan Miller with a crucifix for composing the winning prayer in the Diocesan Vocation Prayer & Drawing Contest. All students received a copy of the prayer card with Brendan’s prayer which reads as follows:

Diocese of Arlington

Children’s Vocation Prayer
O, my God,
thank you for calling
me to holiness. Help
me to be a better
person and to listen
to Your voice so that
I may know my
vocation. I ask this
through Jesus Christ
Your Son. Amen.

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