Filipinos Thank Pastor

The Filipino Apostolate at Our Lady Help of Christians, Midwood, thanked their pastor, Father Anthony Rucando for all of his years of dedicated service to them as they also celebrated the Feast of Santo Nino (Holy Infant Jesus of Prague) recently. It was the 25th anniversary of the celebration at the parish.

A multi-media presentation of the Passion Story will be given at St. Margaret, Middle Village, on Sunday, Feb. 24, at 3 p.m.

Choral selections from Handel, Bach, and Bruckner will be featured along with works of art by El Greco, Dali, DaVinci and Caravaggio, under the direction of Olga Conti.

For more information, call 718-326-1911.

The Catholic Migration Office is offering a Basic Pronunciation for Clear Communication “Accent Reduction” class every Monday and Wednesday, 4-6 p.m., Feb. 25 through March 19.

Tuition is $100. Classes are subsidized by a grant from Alive in Hope. For more information, contact the Catholic Migration Office at 718-236-3000.

Our Lady Queen of Martyrs, Forest Hills, invites you to attend an Identity Theft Seminar hosted by Citibank on Feb. 26 at 7 p.m. in McLaughlin Hall. Call 718-268-6251.

There are many Lenten opportunities available in the Bay Ridge Cluster. Stations of the Cross will follow the 11:45 a.m. Mass at Our Lady of Angels on Feb. 22, 29, and March 7 and 14. The Cluster Soup Supper will take place on Monday, March 10 at 6:30 p.m. in St. Anselm’s school hall. A Cluster Penance Service will be held on March 15 at 1 p.m. at St. Ephrem’s, Dyker Heights.

Anyone who has a drug or alcohol problem is encouraged to call the diocese’s Drug and Alcohol Abuse hotline at 1-800-659-1603.

This Week’s Tip of The TabletTalk Top Hat goes to the educators who will be inducted into Archbishop Molloy H.S.’s Stanner Hall of Fame on April 5.

Brother James Maher, F.M.S.; Brother Roy George, F.M.S.; Mary Pat Gannon, the first female member; John Diorio; and John Gibbons (posthumously) will be honored for their “extraordinary personal commitment to their students, the mission of Archbishop Molloy High School and the traditions of our Marist heritage.”

Join them for Mass at 6 p.m. followed by presentation of the honorees, a blessing of the new Hall of Fame exhibit and dinner.

For tickets, call 718-943-3151 or go to www.molloyhs.org.

Come feed your soul at St. Nicholas of Tolentine’s Soup for the Soul Lenten meal in Jamaica on Feb. 28 at 6 p.m.

Father Tom Pettei offers a reflection, Hunger and the Eucharist, during the light meal in Tolentine Hall.
A donation of $5 goes to the parish food pantry.

Enjoy an afternoon of Irish music, dancing, singing and piping at St. Sebastian’s St. Patrick’s Day Celebration in Woodside, March 1, 3-4:30 p.m. in the school auditorium.

For more information, call 718-429-4442.

Father Caleb Buchanan will be the speaker at the Caribbean Apostolate’s Lenten Prayer Breakfast at Christ the King School, Springfield Gardens, on March 1, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

Cost is $12 for adults and $8 for children under 12. Roundtrip bus transportation is available from Brooklyn for an additional $10.

Call 917-301-0129 for tickets and information.

Enjoy Regina Opera’s production of La Traviata at Regina Hall in Bensonhurst on March 1 and 8 at 7 p.m. and March 2 and 9 at 3 p.m.

General admission is $20; seniors, $15; teens, $5; and children free. The fully staged opera will be presented by a 30-piece orchestra. For more information, call 718-232-3555.

St. Patrick’s Day is just around the corner so plan to celebrate at the annual St. Patrick’s Day Dance at Resurrection-Ascension parish, Rego Park, on Sunday, March 9, 4-8 p.m. Johnny Murphy and the Clubmen will provide the music. Tickets are $35 per person and children 12 and under are free. For tickets call the rectory at 718-424-5212.

Dr. Frank Macchiarola will be the honoree at Assumption parish’s St. Patrick/St. Joseph Dinner/Dance in Brooklyn Heights on March 8 with dinner at 7 p.m. Tickets are $45. Call 718-625-1161 for tickets.

Please send any photos and news items of parish events to lbusetti@thetablet.org.

Principal Is Good Sport

Linda Parisi, principal of Corpus Christi School, Woodside, pitched in for the school’s fundraiser by wearing a billboard advertising the Principal for a Day Raffle around school for two weeks. A lucky student, third-grader Vanessa Monterroso, was principal for a day on Feb. 15.