Thomas Wolfe famously said that you can’t go home again, but that rule never applied to Thomas Marchesiello, the director of music and liturgy at St. Ephrem’s Roman Catholic Church in Dyker Heights.
Diocesan News
Bayside Pastor’s Surviving Coma, & Return Is ‘Proof of a Miracle’
Ask Father Peter Rayder what he credits for his return as pastor to American Martyrs parish in Bayside, Queens — after spending six weeks in a coma — and his answer is emphatic: “It was the power of prayer.”
Author Draws on Queens Roots for His Fiction And Poetry Writing
Author Joe Benevento says his novels and poetry spring from the story of his youth — spent as one of seven children of an Italian-American family in Richmond Hill.
TMLA Sophomore Raises $120,000 for Cancer Research in Just 6 Weeks
Sisters Julia and Siobhan O’Sullivan have always been close but they became closer when Siobhan was diagnosed with leukemia in 2019 at age nine.
Nonprofit Group Helps Young men ‘Reconnect’ and Prosper
Growing up on the streets of Bedford-Stuyvesant at a time when gun violence was a regular occurrence, Edwing Lachapelle never imagined he would be working on a farm on the grounds of a monastery in Jamaica Estates.
‘We Are Celebrating Special Milestones In Our Journey’
A collective 6,780 years of service to God was celebrated on Saturday, May 7, as women and men religious from the Diocese of Brooklyn gathered at Immaculate Conception Center for their Jubilee Mass.
For Their Love of Jesus: Winners Announced in The Tablet’s Annual Easter Art Contest
There’s a lot of young artistic talent out there! The Tablet’s Annual Christ is Risen Easter Art Contest for students in the Diocese of Brooklyn attracted 285 entries this year with budding artists using their creative skills to express their Catholic faith.
All the World’s Caterpillars Are Becoming Butterflies: New Book
A retired Brooklyn priest who recently published a children’s book says the idea came to him in a dream.
CCBQ Cuts Ribbon For Pope Francis Apartments at Loreto
When Denise Robinson was shown an apartment unit at the Catholic Charities Pope Francis Apartments at Loreto, she knew she had found a new home.
Bridge to Life’s New Center Opens: ‘From Here … Life Will Be Given’
When Griselda Pena and her husband Ivan Vasquez found out that she was expecting a baby in 2020, it was a frightening time for them. But the help they received from The Bridge to Life made all the difference.