Cornerstone Blessing

Here is the text from the KRCG 13 March 13th coverage of the bishop's blessing of our cornerstone. The video of this coverage can be accessed here.

JEFFERSON CITY -- Construction on a major addition to a Jefferson City parochial school halted for a brief time yesterday for a special ceremony.Workers laid the cornerstone for a new wing of the St. Joseph Cathedral School.The expansion nearly doubles the size of the facility on W. Main St."We have a few kids in different buildings,” said Principal Spencer Allen. “We're going to bring everybody into the same building. We're adding 16 classrooms, a music and band room, a new library attached, a new cafeteria, kitchen, administrative offices.""We here St. Peter and his letter talking about living stones,” said Bishop John Gaydos of the Jefferson City Diocese. “That's what all of you are. If it weren't for you, we wouldn't need this building.”The expansion should be finished in time for the start of the next school year.