A GRASSROOTS EUCHARISTIC ‘REVIVAL’ UNFOLDS IN THE BRONX
THE PILLAR
March 28, 2023 .
On the night of Ash Wednesday, hundreds of Catholics poured into the church of Holy Cross Parish in the Bronx, New York.
They represented the broad diversity of Catholicism in New York City: some were English-speakers, some spoke mostly Spanish, they came from Dominican, Puerto Rican, and African communities, from Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and from parishes on suburban Long Island or New Jersey. There were lay people, priests, and religious brothers and sisters. There was even Bishop Joseph Espaillat, a New York auxiliary bishop resident in the Bronx. Catholics pray around the altar at Holy Cross Parish in the Bronx, NY. Credit: Marisel Rodriguez. They had all come to pray, to adore Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, exposed in a monstrance on the altar. They had come to praise the Lord. “And the house was just packed. It was kind of like wall-to-wall, and it was kind of like a moment of Pentecost,” said Fr. Vincent Druding, parochial vicar at Holy Cross, the priest who organized that Ash Wednesday prayer service.
Fr. Vincent Druding
“There were prayer teams, and music, and people just came and kneeled in the sanctuary close to the Lord. And by midnight, there were like 600 people there, still just praying and praising — and in the style of our communities; the style of the Caribbean Catholic culture is very charismatic, so that’s the style. And we’ve done all this bilingual, English and Spanish, and it’s been powerful. And people were just praising God, and it went on like that all night,” Druding said. “And that was really the beginning.”
CBS NEWS BARS STAFF FROM USING TERM ‘TRANSGENDER’ TO REFERENCE NASHVILLE SHOOTER [1]
This isn’t about truth. It’s about narrative. It’s about propaganda.
Fox News:
CBS News is reportedly ordering staff not to use the term “transgender” to describe the shooter responsible for Monday’s horrific shooting at a private Christian school in Nashville that left six dead, including three 9-year-old children.
Police identified the shooter as a 28-year-old transgender and did not rule out that gender identity may have been a factor in a manifesto that was left behind, but network executives issued a memo to employees urging them to stay away from such coverage, according to The New York Post.
The New York Post.
“The shooter’s gender identity has not been confirmed by CBS News. As such, we should avoid any mention of it as it has no known relevance to the crime.”
BILLBOARDS PROMOTING ‘THE LIBERTY OF THE TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS’ ERECTED AROUND THE VATICAN
Over 30 billboards have been positioned in the streets around the Vatican, promoting the traditional Mass and asking for its ‘liberty.’
ROME (LifeSiteNews) — As rumors of impending restrictions on the traditional Latin Mass grow, a group devoted to the traditional liturgy has organized a display of several dozen billboards promoting the ancient liturgy, positioned in numerous streets around the Vatican.
Beginning March 28 and set to last for 15 days, the 35 billboards are positioned in several streets around the Vatican. Each bearing different inscriptions, all of the posters bear the same heading: “For love of the Pope. For peace and unity of the Church. For the liberty of the traditional latin Mass.”