It was a festive weekend at St. Mark’s parish, Sheepshead Bay, when guest celebrant Father Stephen Saffron presided at lessons and carols and the Christmas display was unveiled and lit.
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Readers Are Responding To Bright Christmas
The donations for Bright Christmas are coming in. This week, I would like to tell from where and whom they are coming. Many of the donors are old friends like Sam Repole, who tells me that he now lives in Our Lady of Guadalupe parish, Dyker Heights. If you ever lived in Park Slope, or […]
This Season’s Best Deal Is Free
By Father Eugene Hemrick The stores began selling Christmas items long before Thanksgiving, and even Black Friday was pushed up to attract bargain seekers. Each year, the messages and peddling of items seem to come earlier and earlier. Sometimes it feels as if it is all too much: too much shopping, too much noise, too […]
Advent Is About Encountering Jesus
In September Pope Francis celebrated “the blessing of long life” with thousands of senior citizens and their families. In his homily that day he spoke about the Visitation of the Virgin Mary to her cousin Elizabeth, calling it “a Gospel of encounter.”
Campaign Invites People to Church for Christmas
The Diocese of Brooklyn launched an advertising campaign for Christmas, encouraging people to return to Mass. It showcases different messages inviting people of Brooklyn and Queens to join their closest church. “By coming among us as a man, God expresses His solidarity with humanity,” said Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio. “Christmas is that time of year when […]
Hour Children Prepares For a Brighter Christmas
Sister Tesa Fitzgerald, C.S.J., recently gained national notoriety when she was named the winner of the 2014 Opus Prize for faith-based humanitarian work. We’ve known for years about the good work of Sister Tesa and Hour Children. We’ve been fortunate enough to be able to extend Bright Christmas assistance to them over that time. Hour […]
Take Advantage of the Time
My dear brothers and sisters in the Lord, We have begun Advent which is basically a time of waiting. Time is really important to us. We live in time – the time of our birth to our death. The time of Advent in a certain sense telescopes our life from its beginning to end. It […]
Spirit of Christmas Concert, Dec. 18
Celebrate the Advent and Christmas season with Brooklyn-born singer Debbie Gibson. She will be performing at the Spirit of Christmas benefit concert for Futures in Education at the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph, Prospect Heights, Dec. 18 at 8 p.m. Premium seats are $100. Prime seating is $75, and general audience tickets are $50. Proceeds will […]
Brooklyn Parishes Ready To Glow for Christmas
The holiday season began a little earlier than expected this year, and it wasn’t with retail sales and early store openings – those were saved for Black Friday. Instead, the holiday season began Nov. 19 at Maimonides Medical Center, Borough Park, kicking off the annual Celebration of Light. Each year, the medical center provides some […]
Advent: Embrace The Suspense
By Msgr. Joseph P. Calise The experience of waiting for something can cause a lot of different emotions. The effects of waiting for a train when you are late for work or waiting for results from some medical tests are very different from waiting for the tooth fairy or Easter bunny to come. Waiting can […]