Not a pew was empty during Mass at Brooklyn Catholic Youth Day on Saturday, Jan. 21. That’s because more than 450 middle and high school teens from parishes around the diocese gathered for fellowship, prayer, music as well as fun and games at St. Margaret’s Church, Middle Village.
The Tablet asks students from around the Diocese of Brooklyn a question for the opinion section of the Youth page.
Spending a couple hours in a classroom filled with technology that includes 3D printers, laser cutters, milling machines, vinyl cutters and a computer that can program machines to do special commands on demand, students at St. Joseph’s H.S. in Downtown Brooklyn are actually being integrated into the first installment of learning digital fabrication and computation.
On the morning of Jan. 6, the Holy Cross auditorium, Flushing, was filled with students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members who congregated to celebrate the feast of St. Andre Bessette.
An Advent Mass was attended by not only students, faculty and staff, but also La Salle Academy alumni. Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio shared a homily in which he discussed the meaning of Christmas.
Project Joy conducted by the Franciscan Youth Movement (FYM) invited the St. Francis Prep community in Fresh Meadows to bring joy to the elderly by writing Christmas letters.
The Keep Christ in Christmas Student Art Contest (Grades 1-12) Deadline is Dec. 15.
Students made their broadcast debut at a small inaugural ceremony attended by Bay Ridge community leaders, professional media, teachers, fellow students and the woman who made it all possible: Maria Bartiromo.
Young women from the Engineering Program at The Mary Louis Academy, Jamaica Estates, were invited to custom build a trebuchet to take part in the Queens Botanical Garden’s 2016 Pumpkin Smash.
In the spirit of the Year of Mercy, the Sister Servants of the Lord and the Virgin of Matara led teens in baking for and visiting the homebound.
