The Tablet January 19, 2021
Father Carlo Graziano won praise for his service to the Italian-American community. (Photo: courtesy of St. Athanasius Church)
BENSONHURST Father Carlo Graziano, a priest of the Diocese of Ariano-Lacedonia, Italy, who assisted at St. Athanasius for more than two decades, becoming a familiar face to the parish’s Italian-American community, died of complications of COVID-19 at Maimonides Medical Center on Jan. 18, parish officials confirmed.
Father Graziano, 82, was diagnosed with coronavirus last week. “It all happened so quickly,” said Msgr. David Cassato, the pastor of St. Athanasius. “He went into the hospital last Thursday, and he died today.”
Father Mark F. Carr Pilot file photo
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At the time of his retirement as pastor of St. Nicholas Parish in Abington in 1997, Father Mark Carr reflected that he remembered the first “documentation” of his desire to be a priest was in a composition he wrote at the Henry Adams School in Boston in fourth grade!
A Bostonian through and through and the son of two immigrants from Ireland, Mark and Mary (McNamara) Carr, Mark F. Carr was born in Boston and educated in its public schools. The names of the schools echo the proud history of the city itself: Henry Adams, Francis Parkman and Boston Latin.
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th December 2020, commemoration day of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Myra in Lycia, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, while on a working visit to Bari, Italy, officiated at the Divine Liturgy in the Basilica of St. Nicholas, on the holy relics of this saint.
Concelebrating with the archpastor were Archpriest Vyacheslav Bachin, rector of the Patriarchal Metochion of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in Bari, and Archimandrite Avgustin (Morozov), rector of the Parish of the Holy Apostle Matthew in Salerno.
After the Litany of Fervent Supplication Metropolitan Hilarion lifted up a prayer read at the time of baneful pestilence.
The Tablet December 16, 2020
by Msgr. Jonas C. Achacoso, JCD
“Come on, let’s do it!” This is how my friend, Alexander Lateo, a crèche artist, has us many volunteers be involved in his project. Alex is one of those who received ten talents and passionately invested them in being a successful designer of crèches, a cartoonist, musician, and a long list of whatnot. The parish of Corpus Christi, Woodside, is so grateful for his passion and artistry, which are simply impressive. The parish, most importantly, is so grateful for this generous donation.
“When God wills something to happen, everything will fall into place perfectly, in the right place at the right time.”