Butterflies took flight Sept. 23 at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic School as students, faculty, and staff gathered for the school’s annual tribute to Preston James, a former Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas student who spent his senior year serving at OLPH.
For Abby Orr, Catholic education has been an important part of her life since childhood — first as a student, then as a teacher, and now as a school principal.
Often donning their distinctive garb of black, white, blue, or gray, consecrated sisters can be spotted serving on school campuses across the Diocese of Dallas. They are teachers; they are administrators; they are missionaries — the spiritual and educational pillars of their communities, providing a firm foundation of faith, academics, and well-rounded excellence in north Texas schools.