Select members of the Holy Cross H.S., Flushing, concert band gave special holiday performances, Dec. 16, for two different groups of children with special needs. The morning performance was held at St. Mary’s Hospital for Children, Bayside. The afternoon concert was held at the Bronx-based St. Joseph’s School for the Deaf, allowing children there to […]
This Christmas season will be a little brighter for those in need due to the efforts of four seniors at Bishop Kearney H.S., Bensonhurst. Taylor Giacomazza, Jessica Nunziata, Christine Nunziata and Ali Gasperino raised money for The Tablet’s Bright Christmas Fund by selling candygrams to the school community. For each donation collected a candy cane […]
The Bensonhurst cluster youth group organized a celebratory Mass at St. Frances Cabrini Church, Bath Beach, and a candlelight procession to honor the diocesan patroness, Mary under the title of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception. During his homily, Father Guy Sbordone, explained that the reason the Gospel reading was about Jesus’ conception, not Mary’s, is […]
Reflect upon the following: “We hand on the faith because Jesus commands us: ‘Go therefore and make disciples of all nations.’” (YOUCAT, www.youcat.org)
Archbishop Molloy H.S., Brairwood, received an award for Special Citation for an Outstanding Parochial Education by The Blackboard Awards. The Blackboard Awards were founded in 2002 by Manhattan Media, a company dedicated to New York neighborhoods with several publications catering to all matters that concern the needs and interests of New York City parents. The […]
Students in Catholic schools throughout the diocese are preparing for the celebration of the birth of Christ by fullfing their Christian duty of helping those in need. Students at St. Agnes Academic High School, College Point, are continuing their school’s tradition of gift giving and showing comitment to the Christian value of social justice. Freshman […]
Team Edmund once again participated in the annual Street Corner Gourmet on Wednesday, Nov. 23 in the school café. Administration, faculty, staff and students from St. Edmund Prep, Sheepshead Bay, gathered in the school cafeteria to prepare 250 pounds of stuffing, also known as the Stuffing from Heaven. On Thanksgiving Day, the stuffing was delivered […]
St. John’s Prep, Astoria, celebrated its annual Thanksgiving liturgy with all students, faculty, and administration in attendance. The Mass also culminated St. John’s Prep’s Thanksgiving breakfast food drive. Students and faculty gathered various breakfast items to donate to the local food shelter in recognition of the high demand for these particular foods during this time […]
by Alessia Giarracca I joined 38 of my peers from Bishop Kearney H.S., Bensonhurst, to travel to Washington D.C. for our school’s Wounded Warriors Project. We were led by teachers Patricia Hynes-Farragher and Claire Razza. Little did we know the impact this trip would have on each one of us. At Fort Belvoir, we had […]
