Pilgrims who attended World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro gathered for a day of reflection and worship on Sept. 28 in St. Thomas More Church at St. John’s University, Jamaica. After a few icebreakers, the group gathered for some small group work and sharing. Those gathered discussed role models in their faith, ways to […]
Mark Enobakhare, 15 Our Lady of Light People are too rushed into doing big things when they skip right over doing the small things. The small things can lead to the big things, and the big things are not meaningful if the small things are not done. Katrina Nangle, 17 Our […]
Sahara James, 18 Our Lady of Light I pray very subtly. I close my eyes for the time being and softly mumble or speak in my head. Many prayers are me giving thanks for little things throughout the day. Whether it be thanking God for helping me get to school on time or getting me […]
The summer may have been a break from school work for St. Edmund Prep students, but they continued to work hard to provide corporal and spiritual works of mercy. For the fourth summer in a row, students from the Sheepshead Bay high school spent a week in Philadelphia volunteering with the St. Vincent de Paul […]
Congratulations to the new lectors and extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion at St. Saviour H.S., Park Slope. They are pictured, at left, during the school’s opening liturgy. To submit items to the Youth Page contact Antonina Zielinska: 718-517-3132, azielinska@diobrook.org, 800-683-6602 (fax) or 1712 Tenth Ave., Brooklyn, […]
Two Queens teens, Jesse Jaroszewski and Hanna May, spent five days in the heart of East Camden, N.J., to serve and learn. They joined six of their classmates from Loyola School, Manhattan, for a service trip at Romero Center Ministries, an urban retreat and Catholic social justice education center. They participated in the Urban Challenge […]
Jorge Rosales, 15 Holy Family-St. Thomas Aquinas Pope Francis meant that sin is something that can only be gone with repentance, not just by doing something to take your mind off it. Irvin Vidals, 19 Holy Family-St. Thomas Aquinas In life, I will commit sins; there is no doubt in that, […]
Helping bring back a man to life, who no longer had a detectable pulse, earned one senior from Bishop Kearney H.S., Bensonhurst, an Employee of the Month Award from the N.Y.C. Department of Parks and Recreation. Brianna Minogue and her fellow lifeguard, Inez Zuska, performed a by-the-books rescue on Dimitry Zhalkevich, who was drowning at […]
Twenty-five seventh grade students from Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, Dyker Heights, refuse to back down from the fight against Alzheimer’s disease. To date, they have raised over $1,200 for the Alzheimer’s Association under the guidance of Terry Cusmano, catechist at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church. “This very tragic illness causes severe memory loss,” said […]
