Student Pallbearers Serve the Underprivileged

[Sherman A1]

School is out for the summer, and may students are spending their with friends or working a summer job. But some students at the Cleveland, Ohio-based high school St. Ignatius are also spending time doing an unlikely act of service.

More than 400 juniors and seniors at this all-male Catholic school volunteer in the Saint Joseph of Arimathea Ministry, a student organization that leads funerals for deceased people who were homeless, financially insecure, or simply didn’t have anyone to give them a dignified burial.

Over the past 12 years, the Pallbearers Ministry has led hundreds of funerals. Burying the dead, these students learn that every person is worthy of dignity and care, a lesson that makes them more conscious of how they treat the living.

http://www.thetakeaway.org/story/student-pallbearers-serve-underprivileged/?utm_content=buffer31b3a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

[Skittles]

1. ...

[kelliekat44]

2. ditto. nt

[Ilsa]

3. I wish this type of volunteer work

would spread. Get people thinking about others instead of their X-Box games (or whatever).

I hope there is research about the deceased's earlier life, when they were performing at the level of society's expectations. Then they'll get a better understanding of "There, but for the grace of God, go I".

[Justice]

4. I thank these kids. wow.