NYC Holy Week Mission Day 5 – Holy Thursday Sign up to be a Holy Week Missionary! Corner of Prince and Mott, St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral, SoHo. There are days to harvest, and days to sow. Today was a day to sow. Holy Thursdays are often like this. The great Easter holiday can creep up
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NYC Holy Week Mission Day 4 St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral, SoHo. On a beautiful warm and sunny spring day, our little missionary team of ½ dozen lay missionaries and 2 dozen joyful seminarians, headed south to our old stomping grounds, the increasingly trendy neighborhood around St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral. Some things had changed since our
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NYC Holy Week Mission A woman walks into Saint Patrick’s Cathedral for reasons she doesn’t understand or question. Born under Communism in Eastern Europe, she made her way to America in the 1990s and went on to build an investment business with multiple offices in the U.S. and abroad. She is confident and well put
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NYC Holy Week Mission Day 3 A truly amazing day, full of Amazing Grace. What a blessing to encourage so many to receive the sacrament of reconciliation! One young woman was very reluctant to confess her sins, but with the grace of God, she finally went into the confessional. When she came out, she spent
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NYC Holy Week Mission Day 2 St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Rockefeller Center, New York. It’s 9:00 pm, and the last penitents of the evening have left, light and happy. Over the course of the evening, our small band of a dozen lay missionaries had spoken with hundreds of souls passing through the cathedral, distributed 750 rosaries,
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If the last two nights were the story of a handful of missionaries panning for souls in a fast moving, at times overwhelming, secular river of souls, tonight was almost the polar opposite. Tonight, the entire Cheshire seminary arrived, in force. We sent them out in teams of four into the streets, throughout the parish
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SIGN UP TO BE A NYC HOLY WEEK MISSIONARY | MORE INFO NYC Holy Week Missions, Day 2 “Beyond the Empire” Each night as I head into Manhattan for the mission I see skyscrapers in my view and wonder what’s beyond the Empire and in store for the mission. It’s been about 50 degrees but
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SIGN UP for NYC Holy Week Missions | More info “Take these out of here, and stop making my Father’s house a marketplace.” John 2: 16 Dear Missionaries in Christ, Incredibly, Holy Week is just three short weeks ahead! Let’s use the next three weeks to prepare our souls to be the very best missionaries
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This was the most memorable of Holy Week’s. Not because it was the most recent, but because of all the ancillary but related things that were happening, especially during the Triduum. Images of distress and relief, bad news and good news, tears and laughter were very prominent in the way I experienced Holy Week this
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Holy Thursday “At your command, I will cast the nets.” Luke 5:5 With the neighborhood still reeling from the onslaught of the Cheshire brothers last night, we prepare today for the one-two punch: the TriState teens, 50 strong, pull in at 3:30. Full of joy. Full of enthusiasm. Ready to roll. We talk about
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