Sports Round-Up, Oct. 10, 2015

Grace Sullivan is the Colleen Queen; CYO basketball coaching clinic; St. John’s University women’s soccer senior forward Rachel Daly became the all-time leader in goals in school history.

Relics of St. Maria Goretti To Be Venerated in Brooklyn

It is the first time that the saint’s body has travelled to the U.S. and only the second time that it has left Italy. The relics can be venerated at Good Shepherd Church, Marine Park, on Thursday Oct. 1 and at St. Joseph’s Co-Cathedral, Prospect Heights, on Friday, Oct. 2.

Obituary: Margaret Thomas

A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated Sept. 16 at Good Shepherd Church, Marine Park, for Margaret Thomas, a member of the library staff at St. Edmund Prep, Sheepshead Bay.

Queen Reigns with Resilient Spirit

Traditionally, the Colleen Queen of the Great Irish Fair of New York is a young woman of beauty, grace and charity. Not only does this year’s queen possess those qualities, but she is also blessed with another admirable trait: resiliency.

Mass for Peace in Marine Park

Parishioners in Marine Park are so concerned about Christian persecution around the world that the Men’s Fellowship Ministry of Good Shepherd parish is sponsoring a Mass for Peace, Sept. 11, at 7 p.m. Auxiliary Bishop James Massa, moderator of the Curia, will be the main concelebrant.

Father John Cush

Walking Together in Trust and Love

From Marine Park to Howard Beach to Elmhurst and now Rome, I have had an incredible experience of priesthood for many reasons. In light of today’s Gospel, perhaps I might articulate two of them: first, “going out two by two,” and second, “taking nothing for the journey.”

Good Shepherd Rings in Baseball Season

Just in time for the start of baseball season, Good Shepherd parish, Marine Park, held its annual “Baseball Bash” March 28, where over 20 avid fans got together to discuss everything baseball.