Vaccine Appointments & COVID Testing

Vaccine Appointment

Commonpoint Queens is a not-for-profit agency that offers a myriad of services to its community. They have reached out to let us know that they may be able to help you find a vaccine appointment if you are interested. See the information below:

Commonpoint Queens’ Test and Trace Team is now booking vaccine appointments for community members that are 16 or older, and living in one of the following zip codes:
11101, 11368, 11369, 11412, 11419, 11420, 11421, 11423, 11429, 11432, 11433, 11434, 11435, 11436, , 11691, 11692, 11693, 11694.

Please complete this form if interested.

Novino Pathology, conveniently located across the street from Holy Cross High School at 26-19 Francis Lewis Boulevard, L2-2 in Flushing, is offering free COVID-19 testing. If you are interested, please see information in the link below:

Novino Path Free COVID-19 Testing

Hours of operation for walk-in drop off are:
Tuesday: 11:00 a.m. – 07:00 p.m.
Wednesday: 11:00 a.m. – 07:00 p.m.
Thursday: 11:00 a.m. – 07:00 p.m.
Friday: 11:00 a.m. – 07:00 p.m.
Saturday: 11:00 a.m. – 07:00 p.m.

Blessed Fr. Basil Moreau

February 11, 1799 -January 20, 1873

Founder of the Congregation of Holy Cross

In 1835, his bishop asked him also to oversee the Brothers of St Joseph, which had been founded by Rev. Jacques Dujarié
to work as educators in rural parishes.

He merged the priests and the brothers in1837, becoming the founding members of The Congregation of Holy Cross.

Adopting Ave Crux, Spes Unica as their motto
“Hail the Cross, Our only Hope”

Father Edward Sorin

February 6, 1814 – October 31, 1893

Founded Notre Dame University
November 26, 1842
The First Holy Cross School

Part of what enabled Fr. Sorin’s vision for Notre Dame to become a reality is that, like Fr. Moreau, he had an unwavering trust in Divine Providence, even to the point of believing that the cross was our only hope.

While in route to Indiana, his first stop was New York, Where he said mass at St. Peter’s Church In New York’s Financial District.

Feast Day – St. Brother André Bessette

FEAST DAY
St. Brother André Bessette
August 9, 1845–January 6, 1937

Alfred Bessette was born in Quebec on August 9, 1845, and he was orphaned by the time he was 12. He had to work to support himself and had little formal education, but from an early age he had a lively faith and a strong devotion to St. Joseph. After a few years trying to find work in the United States, he returned to Quebec. There, his childhood pastor encouraged him to consider a vocation to religious life. He sent Alfred to the Congregation with a note that said, “I am sending you a saint.”

Initially, Holy Cross did not accept Alfred because of his poor health. He had been baptized right after birth because they had been afraid that he might not live more than a few days, and he was sickly all his life. Alfred, however, was not discouraged, with the assistance of the Archbishop of Montreal, received entrance into the Holy Cross Novitiate on December 27, 1870.

Upon entering the Novitiate, Alfred took the name André, which was the name of his childhood pastor. Given his frail health and lack of a formal education, Brother André was assigned as doorkeeper of Notre Dame College in Montreal. He continued this assignment as a professed brother. Among his many duties, he greeted visitors and tended to their needs.

Many people began to experience physical healings after praying with Brother André, and his reputation as a healer began to spread. So many people flocked to see him that the Congregation allowed him to see sick people at a trolley station across the street. Through it all, Brother André remained humble, often seeming confused that people would lavish such praise on him. He knew that the real source of these miraculous cures was St. Joseph’s intercession.

His desire to increase devotion to St. Joseph inspired him to found a shrine to his favorite saint across the street from Notre Dame College. He saved the money he earned from giving haircuts at five cents apiece, eventually earning the $200 he needed to construct a simple structure. This shrine opened on October 19, 1904, and in 1909, Brother André was released from his duties as doorkeeper and assigned full-time as the caretaker of the Oratory of St. Joseph.

The Oratory attracted large numbers of pilgrims, and plans were made to construct a large basilica. Brother André’s full-time ministry for the rest of his life was to receive the long lines of sick visitors who flocked to the Oratory to see him. He became known as the “Miracle Man of Montreal,” and thousands of miraculous healings were attributed to his intercession over the following decades.

Brother André died on January 6, 1937 at the age of 91. During the week that his body lay in state outside of St. Joseph’s Oratory, an estimated one million people braved the bitter Montreal winter to pay their respects. The basilica was eventually completed and remains a major pilgrimage site, attracting over two million visitors a year. The side chapels are filled with the crutches of people healed through St. André’s prayers.

On October 17, 2010, St. André Bessette became first saint of the Congregation of Holy Cross when he was canonized by Pope Benedict XVI. On this day, the Church recognized that God chose a very simple man for a remarkable life of service to the Church. He had previously been beatified by Blessed John Paul II on May 23, 1982.