Christmas tree and Nativity scene lightings and festivals of Lessons and Carols are traditional ways parishes celebrate the Advent season and prepare for Christmas But St. Thomas Aquinas parish, Flatlands, hosted something a little different last weekend – an Advent prayer opportunity based around the scriptural theme of “Waiting.” Participants were invited to reflect on […]
Author: Marie Elena Giossi
Borough Hall Demo: Mideast Persecution Is An Outrage
Snow flurries and chilly temperatures didn’t stop concerned citizens from assembling in Downtown Brooklyn’s Borough Hall Plaza to raise awareness about the persecution of Christians in the Middle East last week. In observance of International Human Rights Day, nearly 50 people of various faiths and cultural backgrounds held signs, prayed and sang, “Let There Be […]
Saintly Celebration at Greenpoint Parish
Ornate Indian parasols decorated the exterior of St. Anthony-St. Alphonsus Church in Greenpoint, where hundreds of Indian Catholics rejoiced over their newest saint. Devotees from Brooklyn and Queens as well as New Jersey, Connecticut and Philadelphia attended a Sunday afternoon Mass of thanksgiving on Dec. 7 to celebrate the canonization of St. Kuriakose Elias Chavara. […]
Women’s Home Honors Bishop Sullivan’s Memory
Fourteen months ago, Lisa Cepeda needed someone to believe in her. At Providence House, she found a whole community of support and was finally able to turn her life around. “I had to get things together and not look back,” Cepeda said. “They invited me into their hearts with open arms, and I love them […]
Statue’s Desecration Rocks Belle Harbor
A statue of Christ with outstretched arms that has long comforted the community of Belle Harbor was found desecrated early this month. Both hands were broken off the figure, and a streak of white paint was placed across its shoulders and arms. “It’s like a big family down here,” said Father Thomas Doyle, pastor. “Nothing […]
Historic Liturgy
Father James Cunningham, pastor of Holy Name of Jesus parish, Park Slope, greets parishioners after Mass in the chapel at historic Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn. Holy Name sponsored a special All Souls’ Day Mass for the first time in the cemetery.
Diocesan Cemeteries Host Field Masses
Wind whipped through a large white tent on the grounds of Mount St. Mary Cemetery, Flushing, as hundreds joined Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio for the annual Field Mass on All Souls’ Day, Sunday, Nov. 2.
Halifax Sisters Support Three Local Charities
The Halifax Sisters of Charity are giving $10,000 to three ministries in which Sisters serve in Brooklyn and Queens – The Maura Clark-Ita Ford Center, LifeWay Network and St. John’s Bread and Life Soup Kitchen.
Sisters of Charity Mark 90 Years in New York (with slideshow)
More than 300 Sisters of Charity, Halifax, and their associates, along with clergy, family and friends, marked the 90th anniversary of the Sisters’ arrival in New York at the Immaculate Conception Center, Douglaston, Oct. 25.
Relic of St. JP II Will Reside in Elmhurst
Hundreds gathered in Elmhurst to be among the first to see, touch and venerate a first-class relic of St. John Paul II, which has taken up permanent residence at St. Adalbert Church.