Our Lady of Grace hosts ‘Super’ celebration

By Pete Fontaine
Posted 2/11/16

More than 100 football fans of all ages showed up at the Our Lady of Grace Church parish hall to watch Super Bowl 50 on Sunday.

The church put on a dazzling display of food, fun, and fellowship, …

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Our Lady of Grace hosts ‘Super’ celebration

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More than 100 football fans of all ages showed up at the Our Lady of Grace Church parish hall to watch Super Bowl 50 on Sunday.

The church put on a dazzling display of food, fun, and fellowship, and added a unique Mardi Gras theme to the event.

“Tonight’s event was a great success,” the Rev. Peter J. Gower said. “We had a wonderful cross-section of our parish life who came together to celebrate who we are as a parish.”

Each of those tables was covered with Denver Broncos and Carolina Panthers colors and paper napkins, and featured a Mardi Gras paperweight as well as necklaces and masks.

“We have a great family here at Our Lady of Grace,” Gower said. “We love to come together to cook, celebrate, and share in fellowship. We realize as a Catholic Christian community that the Lenten season is a very long, penitential journey, and just before the discipline of Lent it is good to get together and enjoy.”

“I can’t believe the food,” said Pasquale Simone, a Green Bay Packers fan who didn’t give a hoot who won the Super Bowl and was accompanied by his wife Daniela. “No one – and I do mean no body – will go home hungry tonight.”

The menu included pizza, fruit and vegetables with dips, cold cut trays, bowtie pasta salad with tomatoes and olives, calzones, meatballs, sausage and peppers with special rolls, hot dogs, baked beans, and a beautifully decorated cake.

“We all enjoyed it in great fashion,” said Gower, who emceed the event’s many different raffles. “Now we are ready to begin the scared discipline of Lent.”

Gower added: “We must offer a great note of thanks to all the establishments in the Johnston area that donated all the food, gift certificates and prizes. We have such a town of generous people, so many who do so much. And let’s hope that our Patriots are playing when we have next year’s party.”

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