On Oct. 4, the St. Francis Prep community, Fresh Meadows, will celebrate the feast day of the school’s patron saint, and mark the return of a statue of St. Francis of Assisi that was part of the school’s first campus on Butler St. in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.
Perhaps the only thing that’s been in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene neighborhood longer than Brother Peter Bonventre, F.S.C., is Bishop Loughlin M.H.S., which marked its 165th anniversary with a festive reception.
Pilgrims from the Brooklyn Diocese who are on a Year of Mercy Holy Land visit joined the diocese’s newest members of the Knights and Ladies of the Holy Sepulchre as they were welcomed into the fraternal Order by Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzabella, the new apostolic administrator of the Latin patriarchate, in Jerusalem.
A tradition that spanned five decades and brought together classmates, friends and many memories came to an end on Sept. 24 as graduates of St. Catherine’s Hospital School of Nursing in East Williamsburg held their final reunion breakfast.
On Sunday, Oct. 2, Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio and Italian Catholics will gather in prayerful remembrance of the victims of the earthquakes in Italy last month. There will be a procession from Grand Army Plaza and Mass at St. Joseph’s Co-Cathedral, Prospect Heights. The Mass will air live on NET-TV.
Irish culture was on display at The Great Irish Fair, conducted on Saturday, Sept. 24 at the new Ford Amphitheater on the Boardwalk in Coney Island.
Pride rushed through the hearts and veins of Albanian Americans as they watched Albanian President Bujar Nishani unveil a statue of St. Teresa of Calcutta at St. Athanasius parish, Bensonhurst, Sept. 25.
St. Helen’s parish, Howard Beach, conducted a triduum in honor of St. Padre Pio. On the final evening, parishioners gathered for Mass, a procession and the chance to venerate a relic of the saint.
The Futures in Education Annual Scholarship Fund Dinner will be held on Monday, Oct. 24, at the Waldorf Astoria New York in Manhattan. The gala will honor Gina Argento, president of Broadway Stages; Guy Chiarello, president of First Data Corporation; and Peter Ward, president of the New York Hotel & Motel Trades Council, AFL-CIO.
Sisters of Mercy held their annual Mercy Day festivities on Sept. 24, the feast of Our Lady of Mercy. This year’s observance at MercyFirst in Bensonhurst on the eve of the feast was especially meaningful as it was probably the last Mercy Day celebration at the agency’s 117-year-old Angel Guardian Campus.
