Chloe Rojas, a senior at The Mary Louis Academy in Jamaica Estates, is looking forward to her graduation this spring and can’t wait for her college days to begin. She has not finalized her choice of college, but said she will likely be going to the University of Central Florida in Orlando.
It’s been around five months since 300 young pilgrims took the trek from the Diocese of Brooklyn to Lisbon, Portugal, for World Youth Day.
The Diocese of Brooklyn held its first Catholic Youth Day since the start of the pandemic Nov. 18 at Immaculate Conception Parish in Jamaica. Around 150 teenagers from throughout the diocese came together to reinvigorate their faith and celebrate the Eucharist.
On Aug. 1, the first official day of World Youth Day, the pilgrims from the Diocese of Brooklyn spent the entire day at the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima.
In preparation for World Youth Day, young pilgrims representing the Diocese of Brooklyn came together for a celebratory send-off Mass Sunday, July 23 at the Immaculate Conception Center in Douglaston.
On the sunny afternoon of Nov. 2, a half-dozen Catholic high school students left campus early — but not to cut classes.
Corpus Christi Church officially named its hall after Blessed Carlo Acutis on Oct. 12 to honor the Italian teenager who died on that date in 2006 and is on track to become the Catholic Church’s first Millennial saint.
The annual Brooklyn Catholic Youth Day took place on May 30, despite the coronavirus pandemic. The event was moved online and was presented on You Tube.
At Thanksgiving Mass, faculty and students of St. Rose of Lima Catholic Academy, Rockaway Beach, presented the new pastor, Father James Kuroly with a school jacket to welcome him to St. Rose. The students also presented him of a sketch of St. Rose of Lima Catholic Academy done by Mrs. Gina Todd.
For 47 years, there’s been plenty of action at the annual Father Edward Troike Summer Leadership Program at Cathedral Prep and Seminary.
