At the annual Red Mass in Brooklyn, prayers were offered that the Holy Spirit would inspire wisdom, truth and action on those involved in the legal profession.
Month: October 2014
Alumni Return to Holy Innocents
Holy Innocents is proof that you can go home to your roots. The East Flatbush parish celebrated its homecoming weekend, Oct. 10-12, by welcoming back over 200 school alumni from 1941 to 2006. Other alumni events have proved to be successful, but this gathering was the most successful in recent history.
Bishop Honored at City Hall
City Councilman Paul Vallone honored Bishop DiMarzio at a celebration of Italian Heritage in honor of Columbus Day at City Hall. Msgr. Kieran Harrington, vicar for communications, right, represented the bishop. Vallone also honored Professor Joseph V. Scelsa, founder and president of the Italian American Museum. Co-sponsors of the event were City Council member Vincent […]
A Half-Century of Revelations
“After this I had a vision of a great multitude, which no one could count, from every nation, race, people, and tongue. They stood before the throne and before the Lamb … These are the ones who have survived the time of great distress … They will not hunger or thirst anymore … For the Lamb who is in the center of the throne will shepherd them and lead them to springs of life-giving water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”
Brooklyn Heights Parishes to Pray for Middle East Peace Oct. 26
Three Brooklyn Heights congregations will come together in a street procession to pray for peace in the Middle East this Sunday, Oct. 26. The faithful will meet at St. Charles Borromeo Church at 12:15 p.m. to begin the procession carrying the Most Blessed Sacrament. Participants will pray the rosary as they walk through the neighborhood […]
Reading Helps Us Tap into Literary Treasures
When I first started writing this weekly column many years ago, my mother often would say to me, “I don’t know why you are writing all of these columns. No one understands what you’re writing.”
We Always Need Spiritual Renewal
n a favorite musical of mine, “Fiddler on the Roof,” Tevye and Lazar sing, “God would like us to be joyful even when our hearts lie panting on the floor; how much more could we be joyful when there’s really something to be joyful for?”
Paul VI Is Beatified
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Beatifying Blessed Paul VI at the concluding Mass of the Synod of Bishops on the family, Pope Francis praised the late pope as the “great helmsman” of the Second Vatican Council and founder of the synod, as well as a “humble and prophetic witness of love for Christ and his church.”
Pope Warns Synod About Extremism
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – After several days of animated debate over its official midterm report, the Synod of Bishops on the family agreed on a final document more clearly grounded in traditional Catholic teaching. Yet the assembly failed to reach consensus on especially controversial questions of Communion for the divorced and civilly remarried and the pastoral care of homosexuals.
Memory Loss Is Not an Inevitable Part of Aging
Dear Dr. Garner,
I am 75 years old, and I constantly forget things. I forget where I left the keys, where I parked the car and my friends’ names.