Kindergarten Explorers
Teacher Anna Sartini’s kindergartners at Our Lady of Guadalupe School, Bensonhurst, participate in the K.I.D.S. + Program, which allows them to explore science and theater arts. The children created their own rain forest and polar region and perfomed songs about these ecosystems for parents, teachers and Diana Meringolo, principal.
Bishop Frank Caggiano will lead the Cluster parishes of Bensonhurst through the streets in a Good Friday procession on March 21 at 8 p.m.
Join parishioners from St. Finbar, St. Athanasius, St. Mary Mother of Jesus, St. Bernadette, SS. Simon and Jude, St. Frances Cabrini, St. Dominic, Regina Pacis and Most Precious Blood.
The procession begins at 16th Ave. and 65th St and proceeds to 18th Ave. Make a right, go along 18th Ave. to Bay Ridge Pkwy., go left to 19th Ave. They then proceed down 19th Ave. to Bath Ave., then right again to St. Finbar on Benson Ave. between Bay 20th St. and Bay 19th. Carry a candle or crucifix.
For more information, Call 718-236-3312.
Get your friends together and field a team for the 6th Annual Tommy Ashton 3 on 3 Basketball Tournament, April 25-26, at St. Sebastian’s parish center in Woodside.
Men’s 40 and over Tournament starts at 7 p.m. on Friday. Men’s 21 and over and Women’s 18 and over start at 9 a.m., Saturday. A $125 registration fee per team includes T-shirts. Benefits St. Sebastian and neighborhood projects.
A party follows at CWV Post 870 at 7 p.m. Cost is $30.
Call Colleen Ashton at 646-345-6482.
Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio will celebrate Easter Sunday Mass to be broadcast on The Prayer Channel on March 23 at 9:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., and 5 p.m. on Channel 97 Time Warner Cable and Channel 30 Cablevision. The bishop will be joined by the St. Barnabas combined choirs of the Bronx.
This Week’s Tip of The TabletTalk Top Hat goes to the 2008 inductees to the Christ the King Regional H.S. Hall of Fame. To be honored at a dinner on April 19 are: Wendell Alexis ’82; Lance Cpl. James K. Kelly ’67 (posthumously); Dorothy McGloin Wagner ’79; Maria Spagnuolo-Cordoba ’90 (faculty); Rosemarie Naumann (staff); and Fred T. Haller III ’76.
Join them at the dinner, 7 p.m. at the school. For tickets, call the alumni office at 718-366-7400 ext. 272.
The Way of the Cross will be commemorated on Good Friday, March 21 starting at noon at Visitation parish, Red Hook, with an outdoor procession. Join the 28 cross bearers and others beginning around the corner on Verona and walk through the streets of the parish.
For more information call 718-624-1572.
Catholic Charities of Brooklyn and Queens in partnership with Common Ground has launched Street to Home, which will provide services and referrals to single homeless adults. If you see someone in need of assistance, call Norman Cosentino, director of Street to Home, at 718-360-8000.
Dominican Village, an independent and assisted living rental retirement community run by the Sisters of St. Dominic at 565 Albany Ave., Amityville, L.I., is holding open house on March 29, 1-3 p.m.
Visit their website at www.dominicanvillage.org.
Join parishioners from Our Lady of the Snows Human Concerns Center, Floral Park, on a one-day retreat to St. Joseph’s Shrine in Stirling, N.J. on Wednesday, May 28. The bus departs at 7:30 a.m. and returns at 5 p.m. The day includes a conference, time to walk the lovely grounds, a delicious meal and Mass.
Cost is $55. For more information, call 718-347-6229.
If you grew up in St. Anthony parish, on Commonwealth Ave., the Bronx, you are invited to their 100th anniversary celebration May 31-June 2. For more information call 718-931-4040 or go to www.strattonpark.com and click on the link for St. Anthony’s Reunion.
Please send news items and photos of parish events to lbusetti@thetablet.org or call 718-965-7333 ext. 2021.
Happy 85th Birthday!
Msgr. Austin Bennett, chairman of the board of Pastoral Communications, cuts into a birthday cake on his 85th birthday, Feb. 26, at a celebration at the Chancery offices on Greene Ave. The birthday luncheon followed a Mass celebrated by Msgr. Bennett.
