Dear Parishioners and Friends,
As you read this Pastor’s Corner, please pray for me and
all the pilgrims who are with me on our pilgrimage to Rome, Lourdes and Fatima.
Today, Sunday, we arrive in Rome to begin our journey, visiting the tomb of St.
Paul and the oldest church dedicated to the Blessed Mother in the Western
Church – St. Mary Major. As we continue our pilgrimage, I promise that we will
be praying for all those intentions (nearly 800 of them!) that people have been
putting in the book in the vestibule of the Cathedral for the last several
weeks.
What
is a pilgrimage? A pilgrimage is simply a journey made to some holy place or
shrine with the purpose of venerating the place (like Lourdes) or the relics of
a saint (like those of St. Catherine in the town of Siena) or both (like in
Rome), in order to ask there for supernatural help, to discharge some religious
obligation, or to do penance.
Our pilgrimage will take us to
the places where many saints have lived and died. It also takes us to where the
Blessed Mother appeared in order to reaffirm the Gospel’s call to repentance
and to instill in our hearts a great love for her Son Jesus. Please pray for
our safe journey and that we might all have a deeper faith.
In Christ,
Msgr. Baker
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