Christmas Wishes for a Happy New Year from ESCA

East Shoreline Catholic Academy (ESCA) students presented Christmas in Prayer and Song to ESCA families and friends on Friday, December 20, 2019. Eighth grade student Erin played the role of Mary. Erin is the fourth member of the Carta family to have played the role of Mary in Christmas Pageants past (The first three Carta family members played Mary at Our Lady of Mercy School in Madison, and now the fourth at East Shoreline Catholic Academy!)

ESCA’s Children’s Choir began with an opening hymn: “The Whole World is Waiting for Love”. Mrs. Panzo, Principal and Fr. Stephen Sledesky (St. George Church, Guilford) began with a prayer and a lighting of the Advent Candle. In between songs middle school students read gospel passages depicting the Annunciation, The Birth of our Savior, and The Visit of the Magi.

Each grade teamed together with another grade to present the following songs:

• PreK 3 and 4 and Kindergarteners dressed up as stable animals and performed “Away in a Manger”.
• First and second grade, dressed as angels, singing “Hark the Herald Angels Sing”.
• Third and fourth grades sing “All Come All Ye Faithful”.
• All students and audience sang “Joy To the World”.
• The seventh and eighth grade students sung “Drummer Boy”.
• Fifth and sixth grade students sung “We Three Kings”
• Emilie (Gr. 8) and Grace(Gr. 7) gave an outstanding performance singing “Mary Did You Know”. Here is a link to a video of “Mary Did You Know” performed by Emilie and Grace: https://youtu.be/IcIzvS8NuWQ
• Ballerinas Megan and Margaret (both Gr. 8) danced with perfection to “Silent Night," as it was sung by our children’s choir.
• Christmas in Prayer and Song ended with everyone singing “Go Tell It on the Mountain”.

Kudos to Sr. Annette D’Antonio, MPF, Assistant Principal, for such a fabulous job in producing and rehearsing with all the students in Christmas in Prayer and Song, and to music teachers Mr. Brendan Mason and Mrs. Dorota Xeller for rehearsing and reciting lyrics with students, during music classes, and to all our teachers who also worked with our students, not to mention set designs and lighting. Lastly kudos to all of our students who did a fabulous job!

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East Shoreline Catholic Academy (ESCA) is a dynamic Pre-K3 to Gr.8 STREAM (science, technology, religion, engineering, art, and mathematics) model school, preparing individual students to be our future leaders rooted in faith, service, and academic excellence. ESCA is the successor school of Our Lady of Mercy School in Madison and Saint Mary School in Branford.