The Missa Cantata, a sung Mass in Latin, will be celebrated at the Cathedral-Basilica of St. James, Downtown Brooklyn, on Ascension Thursday, May 5, at 6:30 p.m.
Month: April 2016
The Joy of Love Is in the Family
This week, I begin a series of four articles in which I hope to give you a sampling of the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation of our Holy Father, Pope Francis, entitled, “Amoris Laetitia,” “The Joy of Love.”
Nuns Among the Dead After Ecuador Quake
Six members of the Servant Sisters of the Home of the Mother, including a young nun from Northern Ireland, are among the dead in the strongest earthquake to strike Ecuador since 1979.
DJ Joy: Mercy Sister Shares Prayer, Music with Online Radio Show
As a disc jockey on an online contemporary Christian music radio station, 60-year-old Mercy Sister Gail Anne Jarvis is spreading her joy as “DJ Joy.”
Tablet TALK: Keeping Msgr. Quinn’s Memory Alive
This week’s Tablet TALK highlights two new relics in Hollis, an upcoming Marian observance in Middle Village, a visiting Nigerian bishop in Brooklyn, the winners of an anti-litter contest and much more.
Local Pitcher Tosses No-Hitter in Florida
Bernard Witek, a native of Rego Park and a parishioner at Holy Cross Church, Maspeth, threw a no-hitter for Loyola School, Manhattan, in a pre-season baseball tournament in St. Petersburg, Fla.
St. Joseph’s Hurler Reaches 100 K’s
St. Joseph’s College Brooklyn, Clinton Hill, junior pitcher Mitch Brigando became the fifth member of the school’s 100-strikeout club on April 10 against Yeshiva University, Manhattan.
Bernie at Vatican Not Political
U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said attending a Vatican conference on Catholic social teaching did not represent a political endorsement of his run for higher office.
Tablet TALK: Reading Fun at Guadalupe School
This week’s Tablet TALK offers details about John Michael Talbot ministry events in Brooklyn and Queens, a prayer seminar for the healing of families, a Year of Mercy-themed evening of art and music and much more.
Abuse Survivors Will Pray for Healing
A Mass is of Hope and Healing is by no means a way to erase that fact or to avoid it. Rather, it is the most powerful way to confront it and help to correct it.