When Vivian Esposti was waging a 21-month-long battle with pancreatic cancer, a disease that would ultimately take her life, she asked her husband Edward to get a statue of St. Peregrine (the patron saint of cancer patients) for their church, St. Joseph’s. On July 24, Esposti was at the church keeping his promise to his wife.
Bishop Robert Brennan reconsecrated St. Joseph Church in Astoria June 9 after the church was desecrated June 5.
A 21-year-old man who appeared to be emotionally disturbed entered St. Joseph Church in Astoria on June 5, broke open the tabernacle, removed the holy Eucharist stored inside it, and carelessly tossed it around, church officials said.
Father Jean Farda Tanisma never imagined himself as a radio disc jockey, but that’s what he is these days: at the microphone welcoming listeners to the radio station he runs at St. Joseph’s Church in Astoria.
On Sunday, July 31, Father Vincent Chirichella, pastor of St. Joseph’s Church in Astoria, blessed “Rest of the Holy Family,” a new painting inside the church depicting Joseph, Mary, and the Baby Jesus.
Father Vincent Chirichella has many friends who are priests that he considers part of his family. But he’s just as close to priests who really are his family. “We have a lot of vocations,” said Father Chirichella, pastor of St. Joseph’s Church, Astoria. “I’m one of four priests. There’s also my brother Michael, who answered God’s call to become a deacon. And we have a seminarian.”
Two beautiful paintings of the Blessed Mother were blessed at Our Lady of Grace (OLG) Church on the eve of the Immaculate Conception. They depict the Assumption and the Coronation of the Blessed Virgin Mary and are now located high above either side of the church’s doors upon exiting.
The current coronavirus crisis isn’t keeping parishioners at Our Lady of Grace Church from doing God’s work.
