Helping bring back a man to life, who no longer had a detectable pulse, earned one senior from Bishop Kearney H.S., Bensonhurst, an Employee of the Month Award from the N.Y.C. Department of Parks and Recreation. Brianna Minogue and her fellow lifeguard, Inez Zuska, performed a by-the-books rescue on Dimitry Zhalkevich, who was drowning at […]
Author: Antonina Zielinska
Prayers for Egypt – Coptic Catholics Recall Experience in Homeland
by Antonina Zielinska As Christians in Egypt continue to face violent persecution, Catholic Egyptians in the Diocese of Brooklyn continue to take refuge in the protection of the Church. When Father Francis Fayez offered Mass at Resurrection Coptic Catholic Church, Park Slope, he did so before American-born Egyptians, immigrants and religious refugees. Coptic Catholics are […]
Volunteers’ ‘Vacation’ Helps Out Brooklyn (with slideshow)
by Antonina Zielinska Young adults from throughout the northeast have joined forces with Franciscan Friars in Brooklyn to build up the Church of God, both physically and spiritually. Thirteen volunteers from Capuchin Youth and Family Services based in Garrison, N.Y., visited St. Michael’s Friary, East New York, for a week of communal prayer and service. […]
Brooklyn and Queens Youth build trenches to survive WYD Brazil.
Reporter’s Notebook – WYD Youth Sacrifice for the Lord – (with slide show)
Tablet reporter Antonina Zielinska filed several dispatches from Rio de Janeiro. Here are her reports about spending a week with diocesan pilgrims to World Youth Day. RIO DE JANEIRO – After a day of sightseeing and walking over two hours to the Copacabana beach for the official opening Mass of World Youth Day 2013, […]
Reporter’s Notebook – WYD – Overnight Vigil (with slide show)
The more than 200 pilgrims from Brooklyn and Queens walked over six miles with provisions and sleeping bags, alongside pilgrims from all around the world, for the overnight vigil on Copacabana beach. The site was moved to the beach because the original vigil site was flooded. Diocesan leaders were receiving conflicting reports of whether the […]
Reporter’s Notebook – WYD – Brooklyn Bishops Support Their Pilgrims
Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio and Auxiliary Bishops Frank Caggiano and Octavio Cisneros all went to a show with the 224 Brooklyn delegates in Rio de Janeiro for World Youth Day. Afterwards, Bishop DiMarzio took everyone out to a local steakhouse for dinner. The show was a praise and worship concert accompanied by testimony about vocations. There […]
Reporter’s Notebook – WYD – Brooklyn Laity Animate
Three lay leaders from the Brooklyn Diocese were asked to contribute to World Youth Day by taking on the role of animators at one of the English catechetical sites. Paul Morisi, Paula Migliore and Kenny Wodzanowski engaged youth from around the world in spiritual formation. They acted as masters of ceremonies, organized activities and worked […]
Reporter’s Notebook – WYD – A Queens Teen’s Testimony
MaryGrace Donohue, 18, of Holy Family parish, Flushing, shared her journey to faith with about a thousand English-speaking pilgrims. She told the pilgrims that at first she saw the opportunity to come to Brazil as a tourist adventure. “I was lacking faithful desire to be here,” she said. Growing up in an Irish Catholic family, […]
Reporter’s Notebook – WYD – Bishop Caggiano Speaks to 1,000 English Speaking WYD Pilgrims (with slide show)
Auxiliary Bishop Frank Caggiano was one of the bishops from around the world asked to speak at a catechetical gathering. Diocesan pilgrims were afforded a chance to hear one of their own bishops at their second catechesis. Pilgrim Karena Lim, 23, from St. Gerard Majella, said she always enjoys listening to Bishop Caggiano speak and […]