[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 80 (Thursday, May 15, 2008)]
[Senate]
[Page S4280]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




     CELEBRATING THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF HOLY NAME OF JESUS PARISH

 Mr. LUGAR. Mr. President, I wish today to congratulate Holy 
Name of Jesus Catholic Church and School in Beech Grove, IN, currently 
celebrating the centennial year of the founding of the parish. On the 
weekend of June 27-29, 2008, the clergy, students, and parishioners who 
are part of the Holy Name community will honor this signal event. I am 
confident it will be a time of joy, worship, and fellowship that 
members will cherish well into the future.
  Holy Name was founded in 1908 by the Rt. Rev. Silas Chatard, the 
first Bishop of Indianapolis. In its inaugural decade the parish grew 
steadily, and the years that followed brought about exciting changes 
and expansions to the facilities and ministries provided by the church. 
In the early 1920s, the Holy Name School was built; its first class 
graduated in 1923; and to date, the school has graduated over 4,200 
students from prekindergarten to eighth grade.
  I applaud Holy Name and its many members for the laudable service 
they provide local communities in the greater Indianapolis area and 
beyond, and I am hopeful that these festivities will be an opportunity 
for celebrants to not only honor the past achievements of their parish, 
but the blessings of another 100 years as well.

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