The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has made it difficult for events to be held in their normal platform, but one local school is bringing a celebration back this year. 

St. Patrick’s Catholic School in Perry will get Catholic Schools Week kicked off on Saturday with a community mass and supper event beginning at 4 p.m. at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church with the meal at St. Patrick’s Catholic School. Principal Kandice Patillo says the pandemic made it difficult to celebrate Catholic Schools Week in a normal way in the recent past couple of years.

“We weren’t able to do things and invite the community in, have them come into our building, showcase what we were doing, go out to the community, really gather as a group. Last year we had to celebrate from afar and not get too close and not really take on what that week is meant to take on like we would have wanted to.”

Patillo tells Raccoon Valley Radio this year will feature all the fun activities people expect with more in person events returning this year.

“Last year we were limited more to like how can we celebrate each of these days and really just be in our classrooms with our small little group of people that we see all day.”

Patillo is excited to involve the community once again during Catholic Schools Week, which is from January 30th-February 5th.

For more information on what St. Pat’s has planned for Catholic Schools Week this year you can go here.