In the All Saints Chapel, 10 students will pray the "Living Rosary" in their native tongues or in a language they know. The rosary is a prayer Catholics pray to Mary, the mother of God, and has been said for over 300 years. This prayer is Biblical, and holds a deep significance for all Catholics around the world, in many different dialects and cultures. The languages and students that were represented in the "Living Rosary" are listed below. This ceremony will look like each student praying a bead of the Hail Mary prayer in their language and then the congregation (the people in the chapel) responding with the Holy Mary prayer in English.
The rosary has 10 beads in each decade, and 5 total decades, therefore each of the ten students will say the Hail Mary prayer a total of five times in their language. This experience will be amazing to display some of the special cultures present in the students here at Carroll. Hearing each different language pray the same message will be powerful and the diversity will bring all of us together and allow us to share an important part of our identity with the school, even when we come from such different backgrounds.
Veronika Fomishyna: Ukrainan
Iris Hartwig: Nez perce (Niimi'ipuutÃmt)
Shiho Namikawa: Japanese
Mailee Bui: Vietnamese
Guillermo Perez-Ochoa: Spanish
Isadora Tomazeli: Portuguese
Elissa Mazkour: Arabic
Danait Getahun: Amharic
Fr. Marc Lenneman: Italian
Sofie Borzadek: Polish
Luke Ostberg: English