Before beginning the North American leg of the From Ocean to Ocean Peregrination in Defense of Life, I met with His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon, who leads the Orthodox Church in America, along with some of his brother priests in Syosset, New York. His Beatitude has represented the Orthodox Church at the March for Life in Washington, DC.
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Mark Pennington heard about the pilgrim icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa through my Facebook posts and invited me to come to the National Catholic Singles Conference in King of Prussia, PA. I was happy to come since it was on my way from Libertytown, Maryland to South River, New Jersey.
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The pilgrim icon of Our Lady visited St. Peter the Apostle Catholic Church in Libertytown, MD on September 27th. The region has an interesting history. In 1608, William Coale left his native England as a Catholic seeking religious freedom in the New World. By the time he arrived in Jamestown he had become a Quaker. When colonists in Virginia began persecuting anyone who was not a member of the Church of England he fled to Maryland before the arrival of Fr. Andrew White and the Calvert family on St. Clement’s Island on the Ark and the Dove in 1634. Later, the Coale family converted back to Catholicism and began a long and happy association with Lord Baltimore and the Calvert family.
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On September 25, 2013, the pilgrim icon visited the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church (more commonly known as St. Mary’s) in York, PA founded by St. John Neumann.
St. John Neumann was a Czech immigrant who left his native Bohemia to become a priest. Neumann had completed his seminary studies, but his bishop was not ordaining any more priests, for the time being, because he had so many priests. Neumann sought a bishop all over Europe, but the story was always the same. Bishops did not need more priests.
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Shortly before leaving Philadelphia, I brought the icon to the Holy Spirit Adoration Sisters also more commonly known as the Pink Sisters. These sisters are devoted to perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. They were surprised and delighted by the visit of Our Lady of Czestochowa to their convent if only for a few hours. I was happy to bring the icon to the sisters and ask for their prayers for the success of the peregrination, for as St. Paul says “For our struggle is not with flesh and blood but with the principalities, with the powers, with the world rulers of this present darkness, with the evil spirits in the heavens.” (Ephesians 6,12).
- Our Lady Visits "The City of Brotherly Love"
- Our Lady Prays Before Three Abortion Mills in One Day
- Our Lady of Czestochowa Visits the Earliest Known Replica of the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes
- Our Lady Visits Her Future Priests at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary on the Feast of the Holy Name of Mary
- A Light Shines in the Darkness - September 11
- Our Lady of Czestochowa Reveals Herself as a Mother of Mercy at Our Lady of Sorrows Church in Fairfax, Virginia
- Our Lady Visits Front Royal, Virginia - Home of Human Life International
- Labor Day with Our Lady of Czestochowa at St. John the Evangelist Church in Warrenton VA
- Visit of pilgrim icon to St. Michael's Church in Annandale, Virginia for Saturday-Sunday August 29 - September 1, 2013
- Visit of pilgrim icon to Holy Trinity Church in Gainesville, VA August 29, 2013