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title: "June 23, 2024: Blessed Sunday!!!"
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We were privileged to visit the Sicily-Rome American Cemetery at Nettuno on a beautiful Sunday morning. Here are the three bus groups: Trinity/Bishop Ryan, Shanley/Sacred Heart, and St. Mary’s.  

The students are doing fabulous and I believe responding well to the incredible opportunities presented to them…they also seem to very much like overcast skies and 80 degrees rather than 102 degrees!!! 

 

On our way to see the tomb of St. Maria Goretti. 

 

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