Hundreds of middle school students from Queens Catholic academies gathered at the Church of St. Mel for a Lenten Rally to pray and get closer to God.
Hundreds of middle school students from Queens Catholic academies gathered at the Church of St. Mel for a Lenten Rally to pray and get closer to God.
The theme of the Diocese of Brooklyn’s Away Convocation, which took place at the Seminary of the Immaculate Conception in Huntington, New York, was “I Call You Friends: The Human and Spiritual Aspects of Priestly Fraternity.”
St. Mel’s Catholic Academy — which had been slated to permanently close after 59 years as a kindergarten through eighth-grade school on Aug. 31, 2020 — received a second chance by becoming an early childhood center in the fall of 2020.
A new early childhood center is opening at the site of St. Mel’s Catholic Academy in Flushing and parents are hoping to expand the center at some point to include upper grades.