St. Peter Breakfast Club ends Lent with Mass, Pop Tarts

Kelcy Dolan
Posted 4/2/15

More than 70 students from St. Peter School ended Lent with a sunrise Mass and breakfast with all their friends Friday morning.

For more than 15 years the school has hosted the “Breakfast …

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St. Peter Breakfast Club ends Lent with Mass, Pop Tarts

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More than 70 students from St. Peter School ended Lent with a sunrise Mass and breakfast with all their friends Friday morning.

For more than 15 years the school has hosted the “Breakfast Club,” an optional program where students attend 7 o’clock mass and enjoy a breakfast of Pop Tarts and granola bars before school every Friday of Lent.

Anne Robinson, a first grade teacher and coordinator of the Breakfast Club, began the program after hearing her husband tell stories of doing the same as a child.

She said, “I felt it was a great way to have the next generation involved. They get it and they push themselves. It’s not about giving something up but strengthening your spirituality”

Despite the early hour, the program is popular with the students. Every Friday there is anywhere between 60 and 80 students in the first few pews of the church.

Addison Eddy, a first grader, said, “It’s neat to eat breakfast at school and be here with all of my friends.”

“We’ve been coming to Breakfast Club since we were little. Now that I’m in eighth grade, it’s cool that we all still come as a group. I’ll miss it next year” said Grace Pine, an eighth grader.

Lisa DerManouelian, a middle school teacher for the school as well as a parent, said, “The kids really drive this; they don’t mind getting up early. There is an eagerness to be a part of the club.”

The breakfast is a way for students of all ages to come together and socialize.

Bethany Mascena Tracy, who works at St. Peter, said “This is great. Eighth graders sit next to kindergartners and this instills a sense of togetherness and community that they can look back on. They can look back and remember their fond memories of Breakfast Club with their friends and associate that with this season and continue to have a positive outlook on it.”

Melinda Cavanaugh, a parent, said by having positive memories with the season, it will build good habits for Lent that will follow her children throughout life.

“It helps them see the importance of the season. It is an opportunity for them to participate in the church and always it is a way to socialize,” she said.

For breakfast students pay a single dollar bill and then at the end of Lent all the money collected is donated to the Saint Theresa Shrine of the Little Flower in Nasonville.

Every year the 7th and 8th graders make a “pilgrimage” to the shrine free of charge. They get to play on the grounds and have a cookout. This year the Breakfast Club raised a total of $210.

Robinson said, “It is a community gathering; they are the next generation and they answered the call.

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  • annierob

    Wonderful things happening at St.Peter Tri Parish School!

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