When Andrea Pinnavaia joined her church choir in high school, she had no idea she would be singing alongside her future husband. But it was a possibility; they lived just about 15 blocks away from each other, and their families were parishioners at Good Shepherd Church in Sheepshead Bay. Undoubtedly, at one point or another, their parents had sat next to one another in the pews.
Andrea Pinnavaia
Local College Students Find Faith Revitalized at Eucharistic Congress
The trip from Jamaica, Queens, to upstate Auriesville in a three-row van took nearly five hours, but eight St. John’s University students, hand-picked by campus ministry because of their strong Catholic faith, didn’t mind: They were determined to experience the New York Eucharistic Congress.