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SESQUICENTENNIAL MEDALS TO HONOR PARISH LEADERS
A commemorative medal celebrating the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Diocese of Brooklyn has been struck and will be presented this month to two representatives of every parish “who have given outstanding service to the local community for a number of years and are presently residing in the parish.”
Bishop Nicholas A. DiMarzio will present the medals, minted in bronze in Italy, to parishioners nominated by their pastors at four vicariate prayer services.
Holy Child Jesus parish in Richmond Hill will host the first prayer service for the Queens South Vicariate on Monday, Oct. 20, at 7:30 p.m. The subsequent services, all at 7:30, will take place as follows:
Brooklyn West Vicariate---St. James Cathedral Basilica Thursday, Oct. 23; Brooklyn East Vicariate---St. Bernard’s Church, Mill Basin, Monday, Oct. 27; Queens North Vicariate---Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, Astoria, Thursday, Oct. 30.
A Brooklyn priest, Father Richard J. Bretone, the campus minister at Pratt Institute, and Kevin Gatta, of Gatta Design and Company in Manhattan, designed the medal, which was minted by Colombo Medaglie in Milan.
A proposal to award the sesquicentennial medals was approved by Bishop Thomas V. Daily earlier this year after consultation with the Presbyteral Council and other groups, said Msgr. Otto L. Garcia, the Vicar General. His office is collecting the names submitted by pastors.
Two other sesquicentennial events scheduled are a lecture and a Mass closing the observance.
Dolores Leckey, a Brooklyn native, will speak on “Lay Ministry---Historical Highlights and Future Projections” at the Immaculate Conception Center, Douglaston, Sunday, Oct. 19, at 4:30 p.m. She is the former executive director of the Secretariat for Family, Laity, Women and Children of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington.
Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua, the retired Archbishop of Philadelphia and former priest of the Diocese of Brooklyn, will be the principal celebrant and homilist at the Mass concluding the sesquicentennial. It will be offered in Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica, Bay Ridge, Sunday, Nov. 16, at 2 p.m.
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