This week’s listing includes events in Brooklyn and Queens through March.
Month: February 2019
Father Lauder’s 56th Friday Film Festival in Douglaston
The 56th Friday Film Festival, presented by Father Robert Lauder and the diocesan Secretariat for Evangelization and Catechesis, is now underway at the Immaculate Conception Pastoral Center in Douglaston.
Queens County Parade Honorees
Irish leaders and friends came together for a festive dinner dance to install the 2019 Queens County St. Patrick’s Day Parade honorees at Antun’s Restaurant in Queens Village. Sashes were distributed to the men and women who will lead the line of march this weekend. This year’s honorees include Grand Marshal Thomas A. Callahan; Honorary […]
Sister Patricia Gibbons, R.S.M.
Sister Patricia Gibbons, R.S.M., 83, a member of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas Mid-Atlantic Community for 65 years, died Jan. 15 at Maria Regina Residence Brentwood, L.I.
Sister Marie Hegarty, O.P.
Sister Marie Hegarty, O.P., 85, a member of the Sisters of St. Dominic, Amityville, for 67 years, died Feb. 15.
Father Joseph P. Minturn
Father Joseph P. Minturn, a priest of the Diocese of Rockville Centre, L.I., for almost 62 years, died Feb. 19. He was 92.
Removing the Beams from Our Eyes
Have you ever seen anyone walk around with a wooden beam in his eye? When I read this Sunday’s Gospel, I picture someone with a huge piece of wood in his eye. I think the Lord Jesus is using absurd imagery here to make a point.
Msgr. Daniel S. Hamilton
Msgr. Daniel S. Hamilton, 87, a priest of the Diocese of Rockville Centre, L.I., for more than 60 years, died Feb. 18.
Risen Christ Is More Powerful Than Failures
I HAVE CHANGED my view of evangelization. In the past I thought that someone began to evangelize after he or she had been evangelized. The new evangelizer had no further need of being evangelized. That person’s experience of being evangelized was finished.
Ukrainian-American Bishop Comes Home
IN THE MID-1980S, my wife and I were invited to a baptism and post-christening reception at the home of the newborn’s parents. During the latter festivities, I was introduced to a young man who was working on a doctorate in Church history at Harvard. We fell into conversation and after 20 minutes or so I had one of those rare experiences that is so precious in life: I knew, instinctively, that Borys Gudziak and I were going to be close friends for a very long time.