Rededication Mass Scheduled for St Thomas Aquinas, September 8

The Re-dedication Mass for St Thomas Aquinas in Zanesville, Ohio will be celebrated on September 8th.

It has been a long road of work and prayer for the parish from when structural issues were discovered with the roof back in 2020. The parish banded together for the many phase process to save, preserve, and finally revive their church. The first phase was the immediate installation of shoring and scaffolding to stabilize the roof until repairs are able to be made. The second phase “saving the Church canonically” occurred during the diocesan restructuring in 2021-2022 when the prayers and the dedication of the faithful led to the decision by Bishop Fernandes to repair the church. In phase three, permanent structural fixes were made to the roof followed by our work to beautification the church as it steps into the future.

Before the structural damage · Scaffolding during structural repairs

Near completion of repairs and Sanctuary beautification