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-- ERIN DONAGHUE, Gazette Staff Writer
GAITHERSBURG
St. Rose Kids' Video Shown at Papal Mass
A video created by a group of children at St. Rose of Lima Parish in Gaithersburg was one of three selected in a contest to be played before Pope Benedict XVI's Mass today at Nationals Park in Washington. Forty-seven groups of Catholic children from kindergarten through eighth grade submitted two-minute videos welcoming the pope to the nation's capital. The contest was open to youngsters in the Archdiocese of Washington, the Archdiocese of Baltimore and the Catholic Diocese of Arlington.
Five students from Seton School in Manassas and a group from 12 Catholic schools in Southern Maryland also won. The three groups will each receive 15 tickets to the papal Mass, and their videos will be shown on the stadium's screens before the services begin.
Resurrection Parish Youth Ministry in Burtonsville and a group of pre-kindergartners and kindergartners from St. Michael's School in St. Mary's County received honorable mention.
The 13 finalists included Holy Cross School in Garrett Park and St. Jude School in Rockville.
At St. Rose of Lima, 20 children in grades three to seven in the Children Love Christ Choir sang an original piece by parish composer Margaret Ann Clifford, "Welcome Song to Pope Benedict XVI," according to the Archdiocese of Washington.
"I'm still kind of reeling," Patti Sullins, director of liturgy and music at St. Rose of Lima, said shortly after the results were announced last Thursday. Her 11-year-old daughter, Ruthie, sang in the video.
"It's very exciting," she said.
-- MEGHAN TIERNEY, Gazette Staff Writer
