Celebration of Light supports tree-lightings around borough

November 25, 2024 Brooklyn Eagle Staff

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BOROUGH PARK AND BENSONHURST — A BROOKLYN TRADITION supports local churches in their tree-lighting and holiday outreach efforts. Maimonides Health’s Celebration of Light, which was established in 1995, annually provides support for local churches in their fundraising efforts and parish tree-lighting ceremonies, where parishioners have the opportunity to dedicate Christmas trees to lost loved ones. The event, which takes place this year on Monday, Dec. 2, at noon at the hospital’s administration building’s boardroom, brings together Maimonides clinical leaders with leaders from 43 churches in the wider communities that Maimonides serves. Expected participants include Kenneth D. Gibbs, Maimonides President & CEO; Monsignor David Cassato, a Maimonides’ Trustee and the Diocese of Brooklyn’s Vicar for Education; Brian Long, founder of the Celebration of Light, and other Maimonides leaders. Long, of the Sunset Park-based Long & DeLosa construction company, said in a 2019 Brooklyn Reporter article that the Celebration of Light began with the construction of a crèche (nativity scene) on the lawn of Visitation Monastery and has since expanded into the surrounding areas.

Last year, Maimonides Medical Center donated more than forty grants of $1,000 to local churches participating in a monthlong series of tree lightings held at churches throughout the borough, according to a December 2023 article in the Brooklyn Home Reporter.

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