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Mission Dolores Academy teacher Rochelle Reid (second from left), shows off the letter her first graders received from the Vatican in February. She is joined from left to right, by proud first graders Darrin Padilla, Nazareth Walker and Kiyoshi Nishimoto. (Courtesy photo)
Feb. 24, 2020
Christina Gray
Catholic San Francisco
Dominican Sister Ann Providence, director of religious education at Mission Dolores Academy in San Francisco, was delighted to report to Catholic San Francisco Feb. 12 that teacher Rochelle Reid’s first grade class had received a letter from the Vatican.
Addressed to “the children of the first grade,” the letter written on behalf of Pope Francis, thanked the students for their letters of concern about the destruction of the Amazon.
In October the students studied and prayed for the Amazon as part of a two-week immersion project. (See Catholic San Francisco's story on their project here).
The letter said the pope read the students’ letters and “asked that we continue our prayers.”