Music groups from Our Lady of Guadalupe in Dyker Heights, a Lenten Mission at Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament in Bayside, free tax preparation and more in this week’s Tablet TALK.
St. Athanasius – Bensonhurst Brooklyn
Officers Remembered One Month Later
NYPD chaplain Msgr. David Cassato celebrated a Month’s Mind Mass for slain Detectives Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu on Sunday, Jan. 17, at St. Athanasius Church, Bensonhurst.
St. Athanasius Develops Students’ Intellect, Talents
The mission of St. Athanasius School, Bensonhurst, is to provide an atmosphere where students’ intellectual abilities and talents are fully developed. Through various experiences, it is the school’s conviction to enable the students to encounter Christ in every aspect of their lives. There are opportunities to encourage students’ creativity, responsibility, scholarship, leadership and citizenship. Building […]
Lights On in Bensonhurst
St. Athanasius parish lit up its outdoor Nativity scene and church with the colors of Christmas on Dec. 13. The Saturday evening Mass was followed by singing, guest appearances, the arrival of Santa Claus and refreshments in the parish hall.
Obituary: Sister John Joseph Dunphy, C.S.J.
Sister John Joseph Dunphy, C.S.J., former guidance counselor at Bishop Kearney H.S., Bensonhurst, died July 21 at Maria Regina Residence in Brentwood.
St. Athanasius BCBA Bantam Team Wins Championship
St. Athanasius, Bensonhurst, sixth grade bantam boys basketball team won the BCBA championship over St. Columba, Marine Park, 39-20 on Saturday, March 22. Below is a photo of the St. Athanasius team with its head coach George Firingos and assistant coach Joe Orlando. The members of the championship winning team are as follows: Nicholas Firingos, […]
Presepio: Italian Tradition Tells the Christmas Story (with slideshow)
The Christmas season is a time known for its traditions, from putting up lights and stockings, to singing carols and of course displaying a Christmas tree. But there’s a tradition that lives on today that has been passed on from generation to generation: the construction of a presepio, a Nativity scene depicting the birth of […]
St. Athanasius: A Place Of Welcome for 100 Yrs. (with slideshow)
One hundred years after a little wooden church was dedicated to the great Church Doctor, St. Athanasius, in what is now Bensonhurst, Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio joined the still thriving parish community in celebration and thanksgiving, Oct. 27.
New Bensonhurst 9/11 Memorial (with slideshow)
A member of the Knights of Columbus Fourth Degree pauses for a moment of silence at a new memorial for the victims of 9/11 at St. Athanasius Church, Bensonhurst. The shrine was dedicated in memory of parishioners John Frank Rizzo and Paul Silvio Giallombardo. Members of the Msgr. Cafiero Council of the K. of C. […]
Bensonhurst Parishioners Will Not Be Forgotten
There’s a new 9/11 memorial in Brooklyn. It was dedicated last week on the 12th anniversary of that horrific terrorist attack on America. The new shrine is located outside St. Athanasius Church, Bensonhurst, and was dedicated by its pastor, Msgr. David Cassato, in memory of two parishioners who died in the World Trade Center – […]