While greeting public school students Sunday, Sept. 18, at Our Lady of Perpetual Hope Parish in Ozone Park, Bishop Robert Brennan appreciated that some of them might not yet know him.
In a teaching moment, he introduced himself by referring to the prayer intentions said during the Mass saying “the part when we pray for Francis our pope, and Robert our bishop.”
Waving to the assembly, he added, “I’m Robert, our bishop.” Parents and teachers laughed along with Father Thomas Ahern, OLPH’s pastor, and Fran DeLuca, the academy’s principal.
The 50 or so students, kindergarten through high school, came to the OLPH Catholic Academy gym to register for the faith formation Sunday school classes of the new school year.
