
Flatlands parish hosts this year’s diocesan Mass honoring MLK

FLATLANDS — THE ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF BROOKLYN WILL HONOR THE LEGACY of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on the federal holiday that celebrates the birthday of the slain civil rights leader.
The Most Rev. Robert Brennan, Bishop of the Diocese of Brooklyn, will lead a noon Mass honoring the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Monday, Jan. 20 at St. Thomas Aquinas Roman Catholic Church, in Brooklyn’s Flatlands neighborhood. Father Alonzo Q. Cox, Diocesan Coordinator for the Vicariate for Black Catholic Concerns, and Secretary for the Diocesan Commission on Racism and Social Justice, will be the homilist. Father Cox is also the Pastor of St. Martin de Porres Parish in Bedford Stuyvesant, a parish composed of three churches. One of these, St. Peter Claver, was founded in 1921 as the first African American Roman Catholic Church in the Diocese of Brooklyn.
The children’s choir from Midwood Catholic Academy will be singing at the Mass, which the Vicariate Office of Black Catholic Concerns for the Diocese of Brooklyn has organized.
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