Parishioners sending their prayers aloft

By Kate Miller, Record Staff Writer

Posted 11/7/19

After Mass on Oct. 16 at St. Patrick Church in Jonesburg, a number of people watched something special take flight over a church. “It was amazing. One of the most awesome things I’ve ever …

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Parishioners sending their prayers aloft

Posted Thursday, November 7, 2019 5:11 pm

By Kate Miller, Record Staff Writer

After Mass on Oct. 16 at St. Patrick Church in Jonesburg, a number of people watched something special take flight over a church.“It was amazing. One of the most awesome things I’ve ever seen,” said Sandi Waddell, a parishioner.In the church hall on the Saturday before, religious education teachers and students had inflated balloons and fastened them together as if they were beads. Immediately following the Mass at church on Sunday, parishioners entered the church hall and then proceeded to the church grounds.“They said the rosary, and on three, they let go, and the wind immediately took it up in the air,” Waddell said. “As it went over the church, it opened up and there was no doubt what it was, and it was beautiful.”The balloons took the shape of a rosary and floated into the clear blue sky for everyone to enjoy.The image of the rosary was used as a symbol conveying parishioners’ prayers and petitions.The idea came from Julie Ellis, in her search for “mission ideas” that would spread God’s word and help connect the students to parish members and the community.Church Council member Lori Farrar, with her sons Mac and Luke, and religious education teachers Julie Ellis, with her sons Jace and Colby, and Sara Johnson, with her daughter Cora, worked on the project. The children involved are religious education students.The floating rosary caught people’s attention from in and around the church. Now people are wondering where it may have gone.“I’m so anxious to find out where it went and where it came down,” Waddell said.

After Mass on Oct. 16 at St. Patrick Church in Jonesburg let go of a chain of balloons that formed a rosary as they floated above the church's roof. Submitted photo.

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