Start of the school year Mass

: “Know God, love God, serve God,” Monsignor Andrew Dubois told students during the opening of the school year Mass at Saint Dominic Academy in Auburn on Friday. Dubois, moderator of the Curia for the Diocese of Portland, gave the Mass sermon to a gym full of prekindergarten to grade 12 students, faculty and a handful of parents. He encouraged children to get to know, love and serve God. “Your teachers will help you,” he said.

: Students sing “Our God is an Awesome God” during the opening of the school year Mass at Saint Dominic Academy in Auburn on Friday.

: Altar server Henry Nowinski holds the Bible for Monsignor Andrew Dubois during the opening of the school year Mass at Saint Dominic Academy in Auburn on Friday. Nowinski is an eighth-grader.

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