McClancy Celebrates 50 Years

Honored with the Cor Jesu Award at Msgr. McClancy M.H.S.’s 50th Anniversary celbration were Brother Robert Ziobro, S.C.; Kevin DeMattheis, Class of 1982; and Michael Troisi, Class of 1963. Hector Algarroba received the President’s Leadership Award for assisting poor children in the Dominican Republic. From left are Brother James O’Grady, S.C.; Troisi; Algarroba; Brother Joseph Rocco, S.C., school president; Brother Ziobro; DeMattheis and Edward McClone.

Join Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio on one of three pilgrimages planned for 2008. Visit Lourdes and Paris, April 14-21, during the 150th anniversary of Our Lady’s apparitions to St. Bernadette. The cost of $2,092 per person includes airfare, hotels, breakfast and some dinners. Call The Catholic Tour at 1-877-627-4268.

Travel to Montreal and Quebec, Canada, June 17-23, for the 49th International Eucharistic Congress with Pope Benedict XVI. The cost of $1,495 includes airfare, hotels, breakfasts, some dinners, and Congress registration fee. Call Canterbury Tours at 1-800-653-0017.

Join the bishop for World Youth Day, July 12-21, in Sydney Australia, with Pope Benedict XVI. $3,725 includes airfare, hotels, breakfasts, and registration fee. Call Regina Tours, 1-800-CATHOLIC.

Also view brochures at www.dob-pastoral-life.org for tour sidetrips. Contact Pilgrimages@RCDOB.org or call 718-965-7313.

Enjoy a family picnic hosted by Mary’s Nativity parish, Flushing, on Sunday, June 17, 12:30-4 p.m.
The event is sponsored by the Filipino Apostolate and there will be plenty of good international food, entertainment and games for all ages. Also, music, raffles and a special tribute to fathers.

For more information, call Sister Erlinda at 718-353-5961.

You are invited to the 20th anniversary closing Mass of St. Augustine Yu Chin-Gil Catholic Korean parish at St. Athanasius Church, Bensonhurst, at 4 p.m., Sunday, June 17. A reception follows with Korean music and a grand buffet dinner and cake.

This Week’s Tip of The TabletTalk Top Hat goes to parishioners of St. Andrew Avellino parish in Flushing who, through their Baby Bottle program, donated over $5,000 to Bridge to Life.The funds will help Bridge to Life help babies and their mothers.

If you graduated from St. Athanasius School, Bensonhurst, in June 1957, Robert Barbella is looking for you. He is trying to organize a 50th reunion for the class. Give Bob a call at 718-318-1922.

The Nigerian community of St. Fortunata Church, East New York, invites everyone to its Health Fair on Sunday, July 1, 3-6:30 p.m. in the church hall at 2609 Linden Blvd. The fair features free preventive health screenings, information tables, entertainment, give-aways, face painting for children and more. The SUNY-Health Science Center at Brooklyn co-sponsors the event.

Call Dr. Augustine Umerzor at 917-742-2442.

Sometimes people forget that food pantries have to be stocked in warm months, too. Donations of dried or canned fruit, vegetables, meat or fish, soup, rice, pasta and sauce would be greatly appreciated at the food pantry at St. Gerard Majella, Hollis.

The collection will be this weekend, June 16 and 17 after Mass. Nonperishables can be brought to the rectory during the week. Call 718-468-6565.

Kevin Lyons, president of the NYPD Anchor Club is looking for orphans, who were served by the club over the past 85 years, to share their stories.

The 71st and final Anchor Club outing at Coney Island is July 10. See their web site at www.nypdanchor.org.
Contact Lyons at One Police Plaza, Rm. 206, New York, N.Y. 10038 or 917-299-9497.

Retrouvaille offers a lifeline to marriages in trouble. The program will help couples to rediscover each other.

There are no group discussions.

The next Retrouvaille weekend is June 22-24. Six post-weekend sessions provide continued support. Come see what it’s all about at the Montfort Spirituality Center, 26 South Saxon Ave., Bay Shore, L.I.
For more information, call 1- 800-470-2230.

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Tip of Top Hat to lbusetti@thetablet.org.

Always Seeking Knowledge

Students in the Aquinas Program at St. Mary Mother of Jesus/St. Frances Cabrini Academy, Bensonhurst, did a project on immigration and the experience of passing through Ellis Island. They compiled the stories in books and recorded audio tapes which were donated to the pediatrics ward at Maimonides Medical Center.