Port Chester is a village in the town of Rye, New York. The first settlers of European descent came to Port Chester from the neighboring colony of Connecticut in 1660. For nearly 100 years Rye was a disputed territory between New York and Connecticut until 1788 when the New York Legislature officially established the Town of Rye’s boundaries.
On October 8th, the pilgrim icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa visited Holy Apostles Eastern Orthodox Church in Saddle Brook, NJ. Sub-Deacon Peter Eagler heard about the peregrination through His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon who endorsed it and arranged for the icon to come to Holy Apostles. Father Matthew Brown, the parish priest, was a very gracious host.
St. Patrick’s Cathedral is an iconic New York and national landmark. Its cornerstone was laid on the Solemnity of the Assumption on August 15, 1858. Construction was halted during the Civil War but resumed in 1865 and was completed in 1878. On the date of its dedication on May 25, 1879, it was far outside the most populous part of the city, near Battery Park. Butut all that has changed: Now St. Patrick’s is in the heart of New York City.
Mario Bruschi, director of the St. Patrick’s Cathedral Young Adults, helped organize a successful procession through the Financial District in Lower Manhattan in New York City with about 500 people. After the procession, he drove with me through city traffic from St. Peter’s Church in Lower Manhattan to Our Lady of Good Counsel Church on the Upper East Side.
- Our Lady in the Heart of New York
- Devotees of the Traditional Mass Honor Our Lady and Pray for the Defense of Life
- Three Churches in One Day
- #O2OPilgrimage: Making Way for the Black Madonna in Sparta, NJ
- Our Lady the Hope of New Jersey
- Catholics and Orthodox Join Together in South River, New Jersey to Honor Our Lady and Pray for the Defense of Life and the Family
- 400 Catholic Singles Learn about Icons, Eastern Rites and Pray for the Protection of Life at Conference in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania
- Defending Religious Liberty in Libertytown
- Walking in the Steps of St. John Neumann in Pennsylvania
- Good vs. Evil in the Streets of Philadelphia