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.
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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.
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St. Peter’s Church is the first Catholic Church in New York City, and one its most historic churches. It. St. Elizabeth Ann Seton was received into the Church there in 1805. Venerable Pierre Toussaint, a former slave whose cause has been introduced for canonization, liked to pray there. It was also used as a staging area after the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
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The parishioners Holy Rosary Church in Passaic were happy to have the Blessed Mother for an extended visit. It was difficult to break away from dinner since we were enjoying one another’s company, but I needed to bring Our Lady to West Orange. As I arrived at Holy Rosary in Passaic about 700 people of all ages had gathered to say farewell to Our Lady. Their faith and their great devotion to Our Lady of Czestochowa were truly edifying.
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Our Lady continued her journey through the mountains and lakes of northern New Jersey, visiting Our Lady Queen of Peace Church in Hewitt. Hewitt is a part of West Milford near Greenwood Lake – a large lake that straddles the New York-New Jersey border. Dutch settlers from Milford, later renamed Newark by the English, settled the area in the 18th century.
I have known the Pastor of Queen of Peace Church, Fr. Michael Rodak, since my days as a parish priest in Bloomfield, NJ, when he was discerning a vocation to the priesthood. I arrived on October 2 for a Holy Hour at 3:00 P.M.. That evening I offered Mass. There was a very enthusiastic group of Polish ladies who welcomed Our Lady.
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