The Diocese of Brooklyn’s Fourth Annual Lenten Pilgrimage came to an end on April 1, as pilgrims visited Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Ozone Park – the final stop on the route that took the faithful to dozens of churches in Brooklyn and Queens during Lent.
Hundreds of priests from the Diocese of Brooklyn joined Bishop Robert Brennan for the annual chrism Mass at the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph on March 31. A long-standing tradition in the Catholic Church, the chrism Mass marks the time a bishop consecrates the chrism oil and blesses the other oils used by priests for baptisms, confirmations, the anointing of the sick, and other rituals throughout the year.
Bishop Robert Brennan joined parishioners at the Church of St. Martin of Tours on March 22 for a solemn rite for 12 catechumens, who are scheduled to enter the Catholic faith at the Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday.
Hundreds gathered March 22 at the namesake Church of Our Lady Queen of Martyrs in the Diocese of Brooklyn to commemorate Christian martyrs.
Fifty young men ages 16 to 26 recently spent a weekend at the Retreat & Conference Center of the Immaculate Conception discerning a possible call to the priesthood.
New York’s Fifth Avenue was a sea of green for the 265th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade on March 17, a grand march that turned one of the world’s most famous thoroughfares into a feast of festive sights and sounds.
Liam Moloney will graduate from Holy Cross High School and is confident a bright future lies ahead, in part because he will continue his Catholic education by attending Kings College. He was one of approximately 1,000 graduating seniors from Diocese of Brooklyn schools who attended a Mass celebrated by Bishop Robert Brennan in their honor.
Father James Rodriguez informed parishioners at the 11:30 a.m. Mass of Bishop Robert Brennan’s decision to preserve St. Camillus Church.
The NYPD Brooklyn and Queens Holy Name Society’s 104th Communion Breakfast took on an ecumenical air as the society honored Rabbi Alvin Kass, the late chief chaplain of the NYPD.
In the Diocese of Brooklyn, Ash Wednesday marks not only the start of Lent, but the beginning of the diocese’s annual Lenten Pilgrimage.
