This special section celebrates 59 sisters and brothers celebrating a total of 3,290 years of service given to the Church and the people of God.
It is a memorable year to be celebrating these jubilees as the Universal Church celebrates the Year of Consecrated Life, a focused year to think about vocational call in our Church and diocese.
Two members of the Society of Mary (Marianists), with ties to the Brooklyn Diocese, are celebrating their 60th and 50th anniversary jubilees, respectively. Fathers Patrick J. Tonry, S.M., who resides in Philadelphia, is a native of the diocese. He was ordained 50 years ago on April 3, 1965, in Fribourg, Switzerland. Born in Brooklyn, he […]
Religious Sisters from the Diocese of Brooklyn and Queens celebrated their anniversaries of religious life at a Jubilee Mass and dinner with Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio at the Immaculate Conception Center in Douglaston on Sunday, May 31.
These are the remarks of Sister Maryann Seton Lopiccolo, S.C., the Episcopal Delegate for Religious, at this year’s Sisters’ and Brothers’ Jubilee celebration.
See what’s happening in the diocese to celebrate the Year of Consecrated Life.
Three Christian Brothers with ties to the Brooklyn Diocese are marking their 50th years with the congregation.
A complete list of the Orders and Congregations of Sisters, Brothers, and Priests in consecrated life, as well as the Secular Institutes, active in Brooklyn and Queens.
Four members of the Franciscan Brothers of Brooklyn are marking significant anniversaries of their entry into the Order.
Brother Robert Connolly, S.C., a native of Brooklyn, is marking his 65th year with the Brothers of the Sacred Heart. He pronounced first vows in 1950. Born in Brooklyn, he attended St. Rose of Lima School, Parkville, and in 1945, he entered the Brothers of the Sacred Heart Juniorate in Metuchen, N.J., pronouncing first vows […]
By Laura Dodson ORLANDO, Fla. (CNS) – “Where are you all from?” Bishop John G. Noonan of Orlando, himself from Ireland asked the religious sisters, brothers, priests and the more than 500 people gathered to celebrate the gift of consecrated life. Salesians, LaSalettes, Carmelites, Franciscans and Salvatorians, members of the Mercy, Precious Blood and Blessed […]
Brother Patrick Lally, F.M.S., was born in Manhattan and entered the Marist Brothers Novitiate, Esopus, N.Y. in 1955. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Spanish from Marist College and a master’s from Fordham University. He taught at St. Helena-Msgr. Scanlan H.S., Bronx, NY; St. Mary’s H.S., Manhasset, L.I., and served as assistant principal at St. […]
