Celebrating the feast day of its patron saint in style, St. Kevin’s, Flushing, welcomed Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio to bless the newly completed renovations to the church and school June 3. Joining the bishop on the altar were members of the priesthood ordination class of 2017, celebrating their one-year anniversary.
The Class of 2018 includes nearly 2,800 graduates from 18 Catholic high schools in Brooklyn and Queens. Each year, The Tablet recognizes one outstanding graduate from each school as a way of saluting that year’s entire class.
At Cathedral Prep and Seminary’s Graduation, May 25 at St. James Cathedral Basilica, Downtown Brooklyn, three members of the Class of 2018 were introduced to their new Rector.
Franciscan friar Brother John Aherne, O.F.M., a member of the Holy Name Province, was ordained to the priesthood on June 23 at St. Francis of Assisi Church in Manhattan.
Chaucer once told us, “All good things must come to end,” but are we ever really prepared? We were invited back to our alma mater on April 22 for one last walk through the building that once housed Dominican Commercial H.S., Jamaica. Graduates from the 1940s to the 1990s were represented.
“Called by Name” was the theme of the day at St. Luke’s, Whitestone. Students were asked to listen and consider their future lives in the Church.
Auxiliary Bishop James Massa celebrated the Memorial Day Field Mass at St. Mary Star of the Sea Cemetery in Lawrence, L.I. A small congregation of 25 people attended the liturgy that was celebrated under a large white tent surrounded by headstones decorated with flowers and American flags.
Msgr. Sherman Council of the Knights of Columbus in Glendale participated in the 80th annual Ridgewood and Glendale Memorial Day Parade. Father Fred Marano, pastor of Sacred Heart parish, East Glendale, gave the benediction.
The 151st annual Memorial Day Parade in Bay Ridge drew larger crowds and reported more participants than recent years
Sitting atop the back of a convertible, World War II veteran Luke Gasparre, 94, proudly waved to the crowds as he was driven along Northern Boulevard in the annual Little Neck-Douglaston Memorial Day Parade May 28.
