Tablet TALK

  Suite Success for OLM Theater Group   The First String Players, a young adult theater group at Our Lady of Mercy, Forest Hills, put on a production of Neil Simon’s Plaza Suite at the parish in mid-January. Paul Morisi, diocesan coordinator of adolescent and young adult faith formation, directed the comedy, which was produced […]

Tablet TALK

  OLMC Parish Hits the Slopes   In honor of its 125th anniversary, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel parish, Williamsburg, has planned a variety of activities and events for each month of this historical celebration. In January, Msgr. Joseph P. Calise, pastor, took a group of 23 youth and adults to ski and snowboard at […]

Tablet TALK

  City Council Honors for Aquinas Crew   Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Christmas caroling in America, the Aquinas Honor Society students from Immaculate Conception School, Jamaica Estates, recently sang carols and were honored by the N.Y. City Council for writing Jacob’s Gift, a book about how Jacob Riis brought the Christmas caroling tradition from […]

Tablet TALK

Ready To Serve Bensonhurst Community   Regina Pacis, Bensonhurst, celebrated the installation of four new extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion on the Feast of the Epiphany, Jan. 8. Sister Anna O’Brien, M.F.I.C., pastoral ministry director, far left, and Father Vincentius Do, parochial vicar, third from right, congratulate the new ministers, from left, Salvatore Friscia, Mary […]

Tablet TALK

  ’Tis The Season For Giving   Catholic schoolchildren around the diocese proved that they know the real meaning of the Christmas season when they donated toys, clothing and even spare change to their neediest neighbors in time for Christ’s birth. Gathered ’round the school creche, eighth grade Student Council officers from St. Joseph School, […]

Tablet TALK

Updated 14 October 2011   Animal Blessing Is a Howling Success   Numerous dogs, cats, gerbils, hamsters and birds received a sprinkle of holy water and had special prayers said in their honor at St. Andrew Avellino, Flushing, during the annual blessing of animals on the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, patron saint of […]