RELATED: World Mission Sunday: Brooklyn, Queens Catholics Called to Back Global Missions<\/a><\/p>\nPicarello said the school holds monthly collections for the mission, dress-down days that benefit the missions, and mite boxes during Lent.<\/p>\n
Bishop Brennan also recognized St. Bernadette Catholic Academy in Dyker Heights and the faith formation program at the Basilica of Regina Pacis in Bensonhurst as Brooklyn\u2019s largest contributors. For St. Bernadette, it marked the 17th straight year it has led all Brooklyn schools. The diocese also presented a Banner Award to St. Joseph Catholic Academy in Astoria for contributing at least $1,000.<\/p>\n
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After Mass, schools and parish faith formation programs were recognized for their support of the missions.<\/p>\n
Bishop Brennan presented the awards and took photos with the groups after Mass, assisted by Father Thomas Ahern and Deacon Louis Panico, director and assistant director, respectively, of the diocesan Propagation of the Faith Office.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe power of the Holy Spirit is what we share with the world today,\u201d Bishop Brennan said. \u201cWe are asked to share the Good News of Jesus Christ with the whole world.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said all parishes are asked to be aware of the work of the missions and to pray and support them with material funds.<\/p>\n
Bishop Brennan explained that he had visited the missions in Nigeria this past year, specifically schools built by Irish missionaries that have helped spread the faith in the region.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cNow Nigerians serve the world as missionaries around the world,\u201d he noted, \u201ceven here in our diocese.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Father Ahern asked all in attendance to pray for the beatification cause of Brooklyn missionary Bishop Francis X. Ford, who died in a Chinese prison camp in 1952.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Everyone in attendance received a Mission Sunday packet containing World Mission rosary beads, a copy of \u201cMission\u201d magazine, a Propagation of the Faith pen, and various prayer cards, including one for Bishop\u2019s Ford\u2019s canonization.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bishop Robert Brennan celebrated Mass at the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph in Prospect Heights on Oct. 18 for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[34792,98,100,99,138689,23130,138278,9,24,63,138690,138691,138692,138693,138279],"class_list":["post-377037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-bishop-robert-brennan","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-co-cathedral-of-st-joseph","tag-diocese-of-brooklyn","tag-missionary","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-st-bernadette-catholic-academy","tag-st-joseph-catholic-academy","tag-st-sebastian-catholic-academy","tag-st-teresa-of-avila-st-anthony-of-padua-parish-in-ozone-park","tag-world-mission-sunday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Bishop Robert Brennan celebrated Mass at the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph in Prospect Heights on Oct. 18 for the 100th anniversary of World Mission Sunday, calling on the faithful to share the Gospel with the world. (Photos: Ed Wilkinson)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Mission-chat.jpg\"\/)