St. Francis Golf Tourney Winners

At the St. Francis College Meadow Brook Golf Outing, the school’s new president Brendan Dugan, second from right, congratulates the first-place by gross score team. More than 160 alumni and friends of the college raised more than $100,000 for the college’s scholarship fund. The winning team included Jesus Linares ’84, Hector Batista ’84, Ira Romoff, Peter Kane and Jeff Russo.

Calvary Hospital (www.calvaryhospital.org) in the Bronx and its 25-bed satellite facility at Lutheran Medical Center in Sunset Park, provide palliative care to adult advanced cancer patients. They also provide home-based care for many patients with cancer.

Volunteers are essential to this care. They provide companionship, respite and bereavement support to families, shop, deliver supplies and do clerical work.

Calvary @ Home is in need of volunteers with Spanish, Italian, Russian, Chinese, French and Creole language skills as well as those who know massage, crocheting or have musical talents.

For more information, call Barbara Nitzberg at 718-518-2246.

Our Lady of Knock, Queen of Ireland, will be celebrated at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Sunset Park, at noon Mass on Sunday, Aug. 17, in the upper church.

After Mass there will be dinner and entertainment in Notre Dame Hall. Tickets: $20, adults; $5, children 12 and under. Call 718-492-9200.

Our Lady of Knock will also be celebrated at Holy Name Church, Park Slope, at 5:30 p.m. Mass on Saturday, Aug. 23, followed by Rosary and crowning. Video and refreshments. Call 718-499-9482.

Through Kids Tools for School, Astoria Federal Savings is collecting school supplies for local children whose families cannot afford to purchase these items.

Drop off new notebooks, pens, paper, crayons and other items at any Astoria Federal Savings bank branch by Aug. 31.

For more information, on the collection drive visit www.astoriafederal.com.

This Week’s Tip of The TabletTalk Top Hat goes to Tomasz Strojek, a parishioner of Holy Cross, Maspeth, whose company, T & S Electrical Contracting Inc., installed new electric sockets in the John Paul II Hall under the church and added new circuit breakers where they were very much needed.

Another generous parishioner, Mieczyslaw Mikrut, provided two rolls of hard-to-get vinyl for repairing the kneelers in church. A “Wielki Bog zaplac” to both of them!

Come to the Annual Giant Indoor Flea Market at St. John Vianney parish, Flushing, on Saturday, Sept. 13, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. in the parish center at 35th Ave. and Union St. – rain or shine! Vendors welcome.
For more information, call 718-762-7920.

Help St. Michael’s parish, Flushing, celebrate their 175th anniversary year at a concert by their Chinese choir in the church on Sept. 7 at 7 p.m.

Then attend a bilingual Mass on Sunday, Sept. 28, 1:30 p.m., where Auxiliary Bishop Octavio Cisneros will be the celebrant. Don’t miss the Anniversary Dinner Dance on Friday, Oct. 10, which will be held at Immaculate Conception Pastoral Center, Douglaston. Honorees will be Sister St. William, CSJ; Elena Cata and Deacon Elias Yepes.

Tickets are $75. For more information, call 718-961-0295.

Sister Susan Marie Kasprzak, of the Visitation Monastery in Bay Ridge was elected to a six-year term as President of the Second Federation of Visitation Monasteries at an assembly held in St. Louis, Mo.

The federation consists of the monasteries of Georgetown, St. Louis, Wheeling, Brooklyn, St. Paul and Minneapolis.

Come to Me All Who Labor and Are Heavy Laden...is the theme of the parish mission at St.Paul-St. Agnes parish, Cobble Hill.

Father Clement Macado will preach on Thursday, Aug. 21, 7:30 p.m. at St. Agnes Church, Carroll Gardens, and on Friday, Aug. 22, 7:30 p.m. at St. Paul’s, Court St.

For more information, call 718-625-1717.

Please send news items and photos of parish events to lbusetti@thetablet.org or call 718-965-7333 ext. 2021.

Bocce and BBQ in Ozone Park

Bocce ball and hot dogs on the BBQ made for a day of fun when the Nativity BVM Alumni Association, Ozone Park, gathered on July 12. Several teams played bocce in the rectory garden while others enjoyed food served in the schoolyard. New pastor Father Paul Palmiotto, second from left, was welcomed by the parishioners. It was a great way to get to know everyone.