CATHEDRAL TO HOST

MASS FOR NURSES

            Nursing professionals and student nurses from health care institutions and schools in Brooklyn and Queens will attend the Diocese of Brooklyn’s 13^th annual Nurses Mass, to be offered in St. James Cathedral Basilica Sunday, May 2, at 10:15 a.m.

            Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio will be the principal celebrant of the Mass and will preach the homily.

            At the conclusion of the liturgy, the committee sponsoring the Mass will present a ciborium to St. James Cathedral Basilica, in memory of Eugenia Pritchard, former trustee of the cathedral who died recently. A founder of the Nurses Mass, she was on the staff of the former Astoria General Hospital, now Mount Sinai Hospital of Queens.

            The Mass is being offered prior to National Nurses Week, observed annually, beginning May 6 and concluding May 12, the birthday of Florence Nightingale.