One hundred and nine students from Catholic schools in Brooklyn and Queens were honored at the Tri-State Italian American Congress Scholarship Awards ceremony Feb. 27 at St. James Cathedral-Basilica, Downtown Brooklyn. Auxiliary Bishop James Massa presided as the awards were presented.
It was a night filled with powerful music, testimonials, performers and inspiring videos as Array of Hope brought its Awakening Hearts presentation Feb. 25 to SS. Simon and Jude Church, Gravesend.
A memorial Mass for Msgr. Austin P. Bennett, who died Jan. 31, will be celebrated at St. Thomas Aquinas Church, Flatlands, Feb. 25 at 10:30 a.m.
Living a holy life is “the finest tribute we can give to our slave ancestors, to our parents, grandparents and great grandparents, who walked the gauntlet of segregation, discrimination and annihilation … in heroic Christian fashion,” Chicago Bishop Joseph N. Perry told attendees at a Black History Month Mass in Douglaston Feb. 19.
What was the clear-cut rationale behind why a group of friends would invite a total stranger to break bread with them? Surely enough it was self-evident: their love for God and neighbor.
In response to Pope Francis’ call to preach the Gospel at the peripheries of society, Father Frank Mann has started a ministry to street artists in Bushwick.
Lent begins with the celebration of Ash Wednesday, which this year falls on March 1. It is a season that urgently calls us to conversion and is a time for deepening our spiritual life, most especially through prayer, fasting and almsgiving.
The Fourth Annual Bishop Ignatius Catanello Memorial Dinner-Dance will be held at the Immaculate Conception Pastoral Center, Douglaston, on Saturday, March 11, beginning with 6 p.m. Mass.
The annual Charity Ball of the Long Island Chapter of the Knights of Columbus of Brooklyn and Queens will be held Sunday, June 11, at 12 p.m. at Russo’s-on-the-Bay, Howard Beach.
“Face 2 Face,” a Eucharist-centered retreat weekend for youth and young adults ages 15-30, was conducted Feb. 17-19 at St. Mark’s parish, Sheepshead Bay.
