Bishop Robert Brennan to Celebrate Mass in Honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Bishop Robert Brennan, Bishop of the Diocese of Brooklyn, will lead a Mass honoring the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Monday, January 20, 2025, at 12 p.m. at St. Thomas Aquinas Roman Catholic Church, located at 1550 Hendrickson Street in the Flatlands section of Brooklyn.

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 serve as the Homilist. Father Cox is also the Pastor of St. Martin de Porres Parish in Bedford Stuyvesant, a parish comprised of three churches including St. Peter Claver, which 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 is organized by the Vicariate Office of Black Catholic Concerns for the Diocese of Brooklyn.

Members of the media are invited to attend.