Come, See, Restore - Sacred Heart Restoration
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This is Part 1 of a multi-part posting. Please check back in a few months for the next part!
St. Peter School resides in an old building at its 98 Main Street location. Founded in 1885, and as with any Catholic teaching institution, you can find plenty of old religious works of art and other artifacts lying around.
Last month in August, our Director of Religious Education found a statue of Our Lord Jesus Christ in a forgotten state of disrepair sitting in a storage room in the basement of the building. Even though it was sad to see it in this condition, popular culture tells us that it's common to find dark mysteries or more nefarious things in the basements of 100+ year old buildings. We were quite pleased and grateful to stumble upon this.
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Besides being a bit dusty, part of one of the fingers was missing and the color of the face and hands were mismatched. How old is the statue, you ask? That is currently unknown, but we can confidently assume that it was created sometime after Jesus was born.
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We decided to go on a restoration mission to restore the statue of Jesus to its rightful glory, and we found J&D Ceramics in Lindenhurst, New York, who graciously accepted this task. It took a couple of hours, but this week we drove down to Long Island with Jesus as our co-driver and dropped Him off for some repairs.
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While we'll miss Jesus in the meantime, we can rest assured that He is always with us until the end of time (plus, go to Mass and you can partake in the Body and Blood, which is even better. Check our Mass schedules and other information either in the "Calendar" tab in the navigation bar above, or click here).
You can help us restore this statue too! Consider donating to this project to help us offset the cost of materials and labor. We'll also be creating a donation board in the future with a list of the names of the generous people who have made this project possible.
