Sister Ana Maria Gomez, V.H.M., made her lifelong commitment as a Visitation Sister at the Visitation Monastery in Bay Ridge last month.
Diocesan News
Diocese on Pilgrimage
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.
Concert Series in Marine Park
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.
Father Lauder’s Friday Film Festival
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.
In Williamsburg: Street Festival Kicks Off Parish’s Religious Ed Year
Transfiguration parish in Williamsburg celebrated Catechetical Sunday a day early last week with bounce, paint and a whole pig.
Dyker Heights Church Honors Finest Heroes of 9/11
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.
‘Graveyard’ Mass Remembers Astoria’s First Parishioners
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.
Loughlin Over the Top Of Anniversary Drive
At a time when many Catholic schools are closing, Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School, the oldest, continuously operating Catholic school in Brooklyn, is thriving.
Generations Drive Pays Off for Queens Church
St. Margaret’s parish in Middle Village, under the stewardship of Msgr. Steven Aguggia, entered the Generations of Faith campaign as a pilot parish. Now, it has received funds back from the campaign and is completing its main Generations of Faith project.
Memories in Stained Glass
Retired firefighter Harry Gillen from Ladder 131, Engine 279 in Red Hook stands in front of the two stained-glass windows he handcrafted in memory of five men from his firehouse who sacrificed their lives at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.