Beloved in Christ,
Our parish, St. Peter, will embark on a spiritual pilgrimage to Italy this Sunday as part of the 2025 Jubilee of Hope. We hope it will be a springtime of new and living hope in our Catholic faith. I am humbled to lead a group of pilgrims, thirty-one in total, parishioners and non-parishioners. Pilgrimage, especially during the Jubilee year, is a grace-filled time and action to seek after the things above, even as we walk on and about this earth. Please pray for us to have a safe, spiritually renewing, and transforming pilgrimage.
Let me briefly describe what our pilgrimage entails. As part of our pilgrimage itinerary to Italy, we walk through four holy doors, celebrate Masses in basilicas, grottos, shrines, and chapels, visit sites of Eucharistic miracles, and in the process grow in our knowledge and understanding of our Catholic Christian faith. Our pilgrimage will offer us opportunities to encounter the Lord in all His grandeur and majesty in the eternal city.
As we celebrate the Exaltation of the Cross this Sunday, and as I write this reflection with a frequent gaze on the Crucifix in the sanctuary of the Historic Church of St. Peter, I would like you to know that our itinerary is also marked by contacts with the cross of Christ. For example, on September 17, the group of pilgrims will walk to bring the Cross from Piazza Pia to St. Peter Basilica, the biggest, grandest and most beautiful of all world's churches; on September 16 we shall proceed to the Church of San Marcello al Corso to see the miraculous Crucifix, which in 1522 was carried in procession through the city's districts to end the "Great Plague of Rome; and On September 21, in Assisi, we shall see the cross that spoke to St. Francis, "Rebuild my Church." The Christian must walk the way of the Cross; it is the path of love.
May we embrace the Cross of Christ on which hung the Savior of the world. On the cross is our victory achieved, and on it we ascend to heaven.
In Christ,
Fr. Alayode, OP
Our parish, St. Peter, will embark on a spiritual pilgrimage to Italy this Sunday as part of the 2025 Jubilee of Hope. We hope it will be a springtime of new and living hope in our Catholic faith. I am humbled to lead a group of pilgrims, thirty-one in total, parishioners and non-parishioners. Pilgrimage, especially during the Jubilee year, is a grace-filled time and action to seek after the things above, even as we walk on and about this earth. Please pray for us to have a safe, spiritually renewing, and transforming pilgrimage.
Let me briefly describe what our pilgrimage entails. As part of our pilgrimage itinerary to Italy, we walk through four holy doors, celebrate Masses in basilicas, grottos, shrines, and chapels, visit sites of Eucharistic miracles, and in the process grow in our knowledge and understanding of our Catholic Christian faith. Our pilgrimage will offer us opportunities to encounter the Lord in all His grandeur and majesty in the eternal city.
As we celebrate the Exaltation of the Cross this Sunday, and as I write this reflection with a frequent gaze on the Crucifix in the sanctuary of the Historic Church of St. Peter, I would like you to know that our itinerary is also marked by contacts with the cross of Christ. For example, on September 17, the group of pilgrims will walk to bring the Cross from Piazza Pia to St. Peter Basilica, the biggest, grandest and most beautiful of all world's churches; on September 16 we shall proceed to the Church of San Marcello al Corso to see the miraculous Crucifix, which in 1522 was carried in procession through the city's districts to end the "Great Plague of Rome; and On September 21, in Assisi, we shall see the cross that spoke to St. Francis, "Rebuild my Church." The Christian must walk the way of the Cross; it is the path of love.
May we embrace the Cross of Christ on which hung the Savior of the world. On the cross is our victory achieved, and on it we ascend to heaven.
In Christ,
Fr. Alayode, OP
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