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MADISON — Blessed Sacrament School in Madison nurtures servant leadership beginning in three-year-old kindergarten all the way through eighth grade.

On January 22, 2020February 15, 2022

Mary C. Uhler, Catholic Herald Staff

Evangelization in Catholic schools

One of the best gifts I have received in my life was an education in Catholic schools.

I was fortunate to attend Blessed Sacrament Elementary School and Aquinas High School, both in La Crosse, Wis.

Those 12 years of Catholic education made a great impact on my life. I didn’t realize it at the time, but I was being evangelized.

Catholic schools are a gift to our nation

My 12 years of education at Blessed Sacrament Elementary School and Aquinas High School in La Crosse prepared me well for life.

I received an excellent academic education, but more importantly, I learned about my Catholic faith and how to put it into practice in serving others.

Gift to our nation

But while my education was good for me personally, I didn’t realize at the time that our Catholic schools are also a gift to our country.

On October 8, 2015

Kevin Wondrash, Catholic Herald Staff

Blessed Sacrament students raise money ‘marching’ for hunger


	Blessed Sacrament School in Madison second grader Jayden Wijeyakulasuriya leaps joyfully past the church during the school’s recent Hunger March. (Catholic Herald photo/Kevin Wondrash)

MADISON — “Show an Attitude of Gratitude.”

That is the theme this school year at Blessed Sacrament School in Madison.

That is the reason more than 60 first, second, and third graders laced up their running shoes and ran or walked around the school block as many times as they could.

The occasion was the annual Hunger March held recently.

Helping at home and around the world

For almost 40 years, the march has been an opportunity for students to make the Catholic values they learn part of their everyday lives.

In recent years, the Hunger March has helped many people both locally and globally.

Proceeds from the march have gone to building a well in Africa, helping a family secure the first month’s rent of an apartment, helping Our Lady of Hope Clinic in Madison — a non-profit medical group that provides primary care services to the uninsured, as well as donating to the Society of St. Vincent de Paul.

Prior to the march, the students asked parents, family members, friends, and neighbors to pledge money per lap they completed.

The march begins

As the 9 a.m. start time rolled around and the inspirational music played, the students finished their stretches and warm-ups and got ready for lap number one.

The students walked as a group for the first lap.

As they completed that lap, the students busted through a Hunger March banner and then some took off running as if they’d been waiting all day to do so.