Petitions Welcomed at Diocesan Prayer Site

A new Internet portal seeks to build a community of prayer by encouraging people to share their prayer intentions with local religious and pray for one another online. Prayer intentions can be submitted on the diocesan website by going to: dioceseofbrooklyn.org/prayforme/.

Thanks for World Communications Day

Dear Editor: I want to thank you and DeSales Media group for your excellent coordination of the World Communications Day event.

Communicating the Message of Pentecost

My dear brothers and sisters in the Lord, Each year, DeSales Media Group sponsors a celebration of World Communications Day with a conference inviting members of the Diocese to explore how they can become better communicators of their faith. This year, this day coincides with the celebration of Pentecost where the initial communication of faith was made by the Holy Spirit who set the Apostles forth.

NET-TV’s Christmas Special

Members of the DeSales Media Group were joined by popular performers and TV celebrities during the filming of the finale to NET-TV’s Christmas Special which will premiere on Dec. 20. At left, popular New York Tenor, Danny Rodriguez, a former member of the NYPD, sings on the steps of Holy Name Church in Park Slope.

Golf enthusiasts enjoyed a competitive round on the links at the annual Bishop DiMarzio Golf Classic, hosted by the DeSales Media Group on Aug. 14 at North Hills Country Club, Manhasset, L.I. (Photo by Marie Elena Giossi)

Bishop’s Golf Classic On Par for Cristo Rey

The DeSales Media Group hosted its 19th annual golf classic Aug. 14 at North Hills Country Club in Manhasset, L.I., and all the proceeds will benefit Cristo Rey Brooklyn H.S.

Ed Wilkinson

One Busy Month Leads to Another

Most of us in the DeSales Media office are still catching our breaths after the whirlwind that was April. First, there was Bishop Ed Scharfenberger’s installation in Albany, N.Y. Then, we moved right into Holy Week and Easter coverage. Finally, there was the canonization of the two 20th-century popes.