As part of a week-long veneration in honor of the Virgin of Cisne, Ecuadorians from St. Leo’s parish, Corona, organized a series of novenas and a cultural celebration from Sept. 16 to 25. Members of the parish gathered each night to pray before the image of the Virgin, which was brought from the basilica in El Cisne in the southern province of Loja, Ecuador.
In The Tablet (Sept. 17), a caption from the rededication story of St. Mel’s Church, Flushing, misidentified the priest in the photo as Msgr. James King, former pastor of St. Mel’s. Actually, the priest was Father James King, spiritual director at the Cathedral House of Formation in Douglaston. In the Sept. 24 edition, an editorial […]
Sister Ana Maria Gomez, V.H.M., made her lifelong commitment as a Visitation Sister at the Visitation Monastery in Bay Ridge last month.
Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio is leading the diocese’s Year of Mercy Pilgrimage to Rome, Assisi and the Holy Land. Above, the group poses for a photo in Assisi.
The 20th annual chamber music series at Good Shepherd Church, Marine Park, begins Sunday evening, Oct. 2. The concerts occur on 11 consecutive Sundays, at 6 p.m. through Dec. 11.
Elia Kazan’s “Pinky” (1949), starring Jeanne Crain, Ethel Waters and William Lundigan, is this week’s featured film in Father Robert Lauder’s 52nd Friday Film Festival at the Immaculate Conception Center, Douglaston. The diocesan Office of Faith Formation, School of Evangelization co-sponsors the festival.
Transfiguration parish in Williamsburg celebrated Catechetical Sunday a day early last week with bounce, paint and a whole pig.
New York’s Finest gathered at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Dyker Heights, last weekend to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, and honor officers who gave their lives that day and in the years that followed.
As part of the parish’s 175th anniversary celebration, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Astoria, celebrated its regular weekday noon Mass Sept. 15 at the parish’s cemetery on the corner of 21st Street and 26th Avenue.
At a time when many Catholic schools are closing, Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School, the oldest, continuously operating Catholic school in Brooklyn, is thriving.
