The Drama Guild from St. John’s Prep., Astoria, performed its annual rendition of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol before a record audience. The St. John’s Prep students, faculty, and staff in attendance were joined by several local Catholic elementary schools to view this delightful performance. Under the direction of faculty members Michael Matthews, Jason Booth, […]

The Key Club at Christ the King R.H.S., Middle Village, and the Christ the King Community Daycare/Pre-School combined their efforts to collect books, pajamas and stuffed animals for Catholic Charities. The gifts were delivered to the organization in Astoria for their annual Christmas party. The efforts were led by teachers Lisa Longobardi, Charlene Machado and […]

St. John’s Prep’s Student Council sponsored the school’s annual Christmas Tree Lighting on Dec. 2.  Students, faculty, and staff gathered in the library after school to celebrate this festive event. In addition to the tree lighting by Prep Principal William Higgins, activities included a Christmas prayer, a reading of Francis Pharcellus Church’s “Yes, Virginia, there […]

Students from Bishop Ford Central Catholic High School, Park Slope, delivered toys for those less fortunate. All items donated by Ford students, faculty and staff went to Hour Children, a nonprofit organization founded in Queens by Sister Tesa Fitzgerald, C.S.J., that cares for children of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women.

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 […]