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Empty chairs at graduation
Eighth graders at Holy Trinity School in St. Ann, Missouri, remembered their classmates who couldn't graduate with them because they were aborted before birth. St. Louis Review photo.
I noticed a photo and story in another diocesan newspaper lately that struck me.
Most graduation stories — like in The Catholic Sun — talk about how many were filled. This one focused on how many were empty. Apparently every year at a Catholic school in the St. Louis area, students drape six empty chairs in their school’s T-shirt. A single-stemmed rose fills the seat.
The act represents their classmates they never met because they were killed by abortion. The students also pray for their deceased classmates and their parents. It’s a 15-year tradition.
One of the graduates who is continuing at a Catholic high school and placed one of the chairs in front of the altar at graduation, said:
Being raised through a Catholic education, it’s important we brought this up.
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