At the annual Lenten Penance Service at St. Dominic Church, Bensonhurst, young people acted out how Jesus defeats the world’s efforts to reduce people to instruments. The message was that He is there to help people get over life’s temptations.
Our Youth
Fontbonne Excels at Stanford Speech Contest
Members of the speech team at Fontbonne Hall Academy, Bay Ridge, placed ninth overall at the Stanford University Invitational Tournament early this year. Over 200 schools and 2,000 students from around the country competed in the tournament.
Teen Newsflash
Night of eucharistic adoration at St. Mary’s Winfield in Woodside this weekend; St. Francis Prep’s Annual Jazz/Pop Concert in Fresh Meadows; Youth Way of the Cross in Bensonhurst; and more.
Frassati Vocation Group
Cathedral Preparatory School and Seminary, Elmhurst, has a group where young men meet to speak about the call to the priesthood. The Vocation/Discernment group is named after Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, who is known as “a man of the beatitudes.”
Youth Views: What is the hardest part of your day?
The hardest part of my day is waking up. It takes a whole army to get me out of bed since I barely get enough sleep throughout the weekday because of school work and extracurricular activities.
Teen Newsflash
Project Andrew at Holy Cross Church, Maspeth, on Feb. 28; participate in 24 Hours of Prayer at St. James Cathedral on March 4-5; concert to benefit WYD pilgrims in Elmhurst on March 5; and a reminder that the Christ is Risen Art Contest deadline is March 18.
God’s Gals Sing at TMLA
Jeanmarie Egan, senior, talks about God’s Gals, a faith-based, musical group at The Mary Louis Academy, Jamaica Estates.
Holy Cross Student Wins Science Award
Nicholas Simone, junior at Holy Cross H.S. in Flushing, won first place in the 21st annual Research Poster Session for High School Students sponsored by the Chemical Education Committee of the American Chemical Society’s New York Section.
St. Edmund Goes to DC
Recently the St. Edmund Prep Model Congress Team traveled to Washington D.C. to compete in Princeton Model Congress. The eight students assumed their roles as Representatives and Senators and fought for the bills they drafted weeks before the competition.
Youth Views: What is a sacrifice that you’ve made?
I had sacrificed much of my free time rebuilding my friendship with an old classmate.
