For weeks leading into Christmas, more than 500 entries poured into the Tablet Newspaper offices filled with colorful pieces of artwork created by students from Catholic academies, high schools and churches from around the diocese. Once again, handcrafted as labors of love, the young artists’ work showcased how they keep Christ in the Christmas season.
The Tablet asks students from around the Diocese of Brooklyn a question for the opinion section of the Youth page. This week: World Youth Day Panama pilgrims.
More than 200 student volunteers from St. Francis Preparatory School, Fresh Meadows, opened their school doors and their hearts to men and women with special needs from throughout Brooklyn and Queens.
“Ignite” is the theme for this year’s Brooklyn Catholic Youth Day. The event will take place March 30 and consists of Mass with a bishop, talks, music, confession and adoration. Lunch will be provided.
The Tablet asks students from around the Diocese of Brooklyn a question for the opinion section of the Youth page. This week: St. Edmund Prep H.S., Sheepshead Bay.
Teens prepared lanterns and a cultural dance to celebrate the feast of the Immaculate Conception at Our Lady of Lourdes parish, Queens Village.
Congratulations are in order for the participants of St. Sebastian’s “Daughters of the King” program. Young women from the Woodside parish discussed love, dating, sexuality, beauty, self-worth, chastity, modesty and how to be a strong, faithful woman in Christ.
I aspire to be an urban planner in cities like Cairo and Kingston to make sure that all care facilities, not only orphanages and halfway houses are given as much care as they are giving to the people that are taken in.
The Tablet asks students from around the Diocese of Brooklyn a question for the opinion section of the Youth page. This week: The Mary Louis Academy, Jamaica Estates; St. Joseph H.S., Downtown Brooklyn; Christ the King H.S., Middle Village.
“People are opening their homes to house young people. We were surprised by how the people responded to the appeal for housing. We want all the kids to have a place, a space, a home,” Father Aguilar said.
