This week’s Tip of the Tablet TALK Top Hat goes to the Royal Sages Robotics Team at Salve Regina Catholic Academy, East New York. They won second place in strategy and innovation at the 2015 FIRST LEGO League Championships held at the Jacob Javits Center earlier this month. They faced off against about 80 teams from across the five boroughs. Way to go!
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Add something new to your traditional spiritual practices during Holy Week. Take time to witness the Stations of the Cross in silhouette on Good Friday, April 3 at 7:30 p.m. at St. Mary’s Church in Long Island City. For details about this unique opportunity, email stmarylic@yahoo.com.
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Another option for Good Friday: Honor the sacrifice Christ makes for you on the cross by giving the gift of life to others. Our Lady Help of Christians, Midwood, is hosting its 43rd annual Good Friday Blood Drive on April 3, from 3 to 9 p.m. in the church hall. For donation information, call Mildred, 718-258-1527.
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All are welcome to participate in an ecumenical prayer service reflecting on the Seven Last Words of Christ at Glendale Maspeth United Methodist Church, 66-14 Central Ave., Glendale, on Good Friday, April 3, from 12 to 3 p.m.
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The fundraiser for five-year-old Roisin Tansey, a little girl who is paralyzed from the neck down, is this Saturday, March 28, 1-5 p.m. at The Wicked Monk, Bay Ridge.
Entertainment will be provided by John Rafferty, BreezyGrass, a folk/bluegrass band, the O’Malley Irish Dance Academy and the Breezy Point Catholic Pipes & Drums. A $20 door donation will help the Tansey family offset medical expenses.
To donate, visit: www.gofundme.com/mut1os, or call Tablet TALK for details, 718-499-9705 ext. 326.
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“Light on the Psalms from C.S. Lewis,” will be the topic when Father Joseph Koterski, S.J. addresses the New York C.S. Lewis Society on Friday, April 10 at 7:30 p.m. The event will be held at the parish house of the Church of the Ascension, Manhattan. Refreshments and fellowship will follow.
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Interested in becoming a Third Order Carmelite? Find out more on the second Saturday of each month in the rectory basement at St. Athanasius, Bensonhurst. For more information, call Pat at 718-837-4013.
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Spoons Up for Soup Supper
Seventh-grade Confirmation candidates at St. Andrew Avellino School, Flushing, hosted a Lenten Soup Dinner in the school cafeteria March 13. Father Joseph Holcomb, pastor, blessed the fare before hungry parishioners dipped into their bowls. Students served everything from soup to soup – and oh yes, some excellent bread! Twenty different soups were made by parent volunteers. Above, the organizing committee is at the ready, from left, Kayciel Ramos, Sarah Pavan, Jeremy Lao, Aidan Long and Ethan Dominguez. The students chose to have the dinner proceeds donated to Hour Children, a ministry to help incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women and their children.
