Thanksgiving from St. Adalbert’s

St. Adalbert School knows what Thanksgiving and the coming Christmas season are all about. Members of St. Adalbert Student Service prepared Thanksgiving food baskets for families in St. Adalbert parish, Elmhurst, and Most Holy Trinity parish, Williamsburg. Food items pictured were donated by students and their families as well as by the parishioners of St. Adalbert’s.

St. Michael School in East New York is sponsoring a Christmas Sale and Flea Market on Sunday, Dec. 2, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. in St. Michael Church Hall, at 237 Jerome St.

Vendor tables are also available. Call 718-277-6766 for more information.

Assumption parish in Brooklyn Heights is putting out a last call for overnight volunteers for the homeless shelter they hope to open in January.

If you are interested, call Kathy Reynolds at 718-694-9317. Her number was misprinted in the Nov. 17 issue.

St. Pancras in Glendale is preparing for the feast of Mary’s Immaculate Conception on Dec. 8 by offering a three-day – Dec. 5-7 – reflection on Mary’s presence in our lives and the presence of Jesus, as we prepare to celebrate His birth on Christmas.

Father George Werner, S.M.M., of the Montfort Spiritual Center, will preside at 8:30 a.m. Mass each day. Reflection and Rosary will follow.

Call 718-821-2323.

Christmas carols will soon be in the air. A free candlelight concert of Lessons and Carols in French, English and Spanish will be presented at St. Francis Xavier Church, Park Slope, on Monday, Dec. 10, at 7:30 p.m. at Sixth Ave. and Carroll St. Call: 718-638-1880.

Another Christmas Concert will be presented at Our Lady of the Angelus, Rego Park, on Sunday, Dec. 9, 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. Cost is $10. Call: 718-897-4444.

This Week’s Tip of The TabletTalk Top Hat goes to St. Kevin’s Care and Share Youth Program, in Flushing, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary.

Care and Share has provided St. Kevin’s youth from kindergarten through eighth grade with a unique, challenging and comprehensive program of instruction, guidance and activities. Pay It Forward, the 20th anniversary theme, expresses their mission of teaching children to practice their faith and live good Christian lives.

Alumni of the program are invited to an Anniversary Dinner Dance in the parish center on Saturday, April 5, 2008. For more information contact Lina Balestri at 718-961-9276.

The diocesan Catholic Migration Office is offering classes in Accent Reduction, “Basic Pronunciation for Clear Communication.”

Classes will be held on eight Thursdays from 3-5 p.m. starting on Dec. 6.

Tuition is $100. The remaining costs are covered by a grant from the Alive in Hope Foundation. The course is open to deacons and lay people.

If you are interested, call 718-236-3000 or e-mail Languages4U@cmodob.org.

Maggie’s Little theater at St. Margaret parish, Middle Village, presents “Please Christmas, Don’t Be Late!” a Christmas musical revue.

Performances are Fridays, Dec. 14 and 21, and Saturdays, Dec. 15 and 22, all at 8 p.m. Come to St. Margaret parish hall located at 66-05 79th Place, Middle Village.

Tickets are $15 for adults; $12, seniors; children 12 and under, $10. For reservations, call 347-707-0473 or visit www.maggieslittletheater.org.

Our Lady of the Snows parish, North Floral Park, invites you to join them on a Great Lakes Adventure Trip departing on May 7, 2008.

They will visit the Holland Tulip Festival and Mackinac Island, as well as make stops in Chicago, Green Bay and a Wisconsin Dells cruise. Tour includes airfare, eight nights in hotel, meals, motor coach and sightseeing. For reservations and more information, call Margaret Hayes at 718-470-6503.

Holy Trinity parish, Whitestone, plans an Advent Mission Dec. 10, 11 and 12 at 7:30 p.m. each evening. For more information, call 718-746-7730.

Please send any parish or school photos and news items to lbusetti@thetablet.org.

Pilgrimage to Baltimore

Parishioners of Mary Queen of Heaven, Flatlands, and St. Margaret, Middle Village, visited Baltimore shrines important to American Catholic history. Their first stop was the home of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton. Father Jamie Gigantiello celebrated Mass at St. Mary’s Chapel and Father Steven Aguggia offered the homily. The pilgrims walked to the Shrine of St. Jude and later visited the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.