The 61 new lay leaders from 37 parishes will coordinate new or existing parish ministries.
St. Matthias – Ridgewood Queens
Tablet TALK: Bridges of Support for Life
This week, The Bridge to Life honors pro-life champions, a religious art exhibit in Bay Ridge, details about the 2015 Edward Cardinal Egan Lecture, Girl Scouts in Dyker Heights and more.
Our Youth Honor Holy Week
Youth from through out the diocese celebrate this holiest of times in unique ways.
Tablet Talk: Community-Focused Catholic Schools Week
News from around the diocese, including a celebration of Catholic Schools Week at St. Camillus Catholic Academy in Rockaway and the return of Father James Martin, author of “My Life With The Saints.”
Tablet Talk: Rett Awareness in the Rockaways, Richmond Hill Scouts ‘Make a Difference’
Rett Awareness in the Rockaways An ocean of purple filled St. Rose of Lima School, Rockaway Beach, when students, faculty and staff participated in a purple dress down day in support of Rett Syndrome last month. Inspired by a little girl living with Rett in the Rockaways, Valentina Priolo, the school raised awareness and funds […]
Tablet TALK
This week’s Tablet TALK highlights a local SJU professor’s birthday encounter with Pope Francis, has details about an anniversary reunion in Park Slope and includes an appeal to readers who lived in Flushing in 1940…
Obituary: Sister Mary Aneta Gics, S.S.N.D.
Sister Mary Aneta Gics, S.S.N.D., a Catholic school educator who once taught at St. Matthias, Ridgewood, and ministered at Lutheran Medical Center, Sunset Park, died June 14. She had been a professed member of the School Sisters of Notre Dame for 66 years.
Msgr. Scharfenberger Installed As Territorial Vicar in Queens (with slideshow)
Msgr. Edward Scharfenberger, currently the pastor of St. Matthias parish, Ridgewood, was officially installed April 20 as the new episcopal vicar for Queens. He had been serving in that position since Jan. 31, but the installation Mass, celebrated by Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio at St. Matthias, was the formal public decree of his new post. Msgr. […]
Obituary: Sister Martha Marie Healy, S.S.N.D.
Sister Martha Marie Healy, S.S.N.D., a teacher, school principal and pastoral minister for more than 50 years in the greater New York area, died of complications from a fall on Dec. 31, 2012 at Our Lady of Consolation Nursing and Rehabilitative Care Center, West Islip, L.I. She was 84 and had been a professed member […]
Tablet TALK
Suite Success for OLM Theater Group The First String Players, a young adult theater group at Our Lady of Mercy, Forest Hills, put on a production of Neil Simon’s Plaza Suite at the parish in mid-January. Paul Morisi, diocesan coordinator of adolescent and young adult faith formation, directed the comedy, which was produced […]