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ACA Campaign » Lead others to Christ with a generous gift Parish Spotlight » Loveland parish has deep roots in growing community Perspective » Meeting the God of Mercy in Notre Dame VOLUME XCV - NO. 7 | 119 YEARS OF SERVICE TO THE GOSPEL | APRIL 27-MAY 10, 2019 www.DenverCatholic.org | @DenverCatholic | www.facebook.com/DenverCatholic | DenverCatholic@archden.org 720-201-7193 4114 S Parker Rd Carving by HAND for over 300 years! BEAUTIFUL ONE OF A KIND GIFTS Bethlehem Handicrafts www.BethlehemHandicrafts.com Archbishop Aquila blesses new store SCAN ME OLIVE WOOD Over 1,000 handcrafted pieces on display FROM COLUMBINE TO CHRIST Sister Mary Gianna shares how she found God after narrowly missing the Columbine massacre 20 years ago Not only did God lead me out of Columbine, he was leading me to himself." E very school day for almost two years, Jenica Thornby would spend her lunch hour in the library at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Every day, except April 20, 1999. "I was sitting in my art class when all of the sudden I had this urge to leave school. I remember thinking, there is no way I am going to be talked into staying." Thornby found her friend that she always studied with and talked her into leaving too. As they drove away in a car her father had bought her just a week earlier, behind them they saw hundreds of other stu- dents running out of the school. Thinking it was maybe a fi re drill, Thornby kept driving. Back inside the school, two students had entered with guns, where they would kill 12 students and a teacher, and wound over 20 more people, before taking their own lives. In the days that followed, Thornby would learn that many of the casualties took place in the library, where on any other day she would have been sitting. "I remember thinking, I always went to the library, and the only reason I wasn't there was because I had this urge to leave. That was really hard to wrap my mind around, and so I really wondered, 'What gave me that urge, why wasn't I there?'" Two decades later, Thornby is now Sister Mary Gianna, DLJC, and on the 20th Anniversary BY MARK HAAS mark.haas@archden.org @markhaastv »• LEARN MORE: mtyr.org " PHOTO BY ANYA SEMENOFF

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