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Religious sisters participate in a Eucharistic procession through midtown Manhattan in New York City Oct. 15. The procession and the Holy Hour and Mass that preceded it at St. Patrick’s Cathedral attracted thousands of worshippers.
Religious sisters participate in a Eucharistic procession through midtown Manhattan in New York City Oct. 15. The procession and the Holy Hour and Mass that preceded it at St. Patrick’s Cathedral attracted thousands of worshippers. OSV News photo/Gregory A. Shemitz

Eucharistic procession takes to New York streets

By  OSV News
  • October 23, 2024

A remarkable day of faith and devotion unfolded at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in midtown Manhattan Oct. 15 as thousands of Catholics gathered for a Eucharistic procession.

The event, sponsored by the California-based Napa Institute in collaboration with the Hallow prayer app, featured a Holy Hour, Mass, Eucharistic procession and veneration of a first-class relic of Blessed Carlo Acutis, offering participants a day filled with prayer. Organizers estimate some 3,500 people attended the fifth annual gathering.

The afternoon began with a Holy Hour and rosary led by New York Auxiliary Bishop Joseph A. Espaillat. The Mass, celebrated by Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City, ecclesiastical adviser to the Napa Institute, was offered for peace in the Holy Land.

“Christ in the Blessed Sacrament, the Lord here with us,” said homilist Msgr. James Shea, “is the answer to all our prayers, all our hopes, sturdy, sure and true.”

After Mass, the procession took Jesus through New York streets.

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