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New York City–An overnight vigil at St. Joseph Church in Greenwich Village

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Hello if you are in New York or visiting New York City please visit St.Joseph’s Church,
371 6th Ave, New York, NY 10014. (212) 741-1274
November 1, 6:00pm8;00am pm All Saints Day
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament in The Adoration Chapel
If You are interested in attending, please sign up for an adoration slot or
call the rectory

Thanks to the success of the previous overnight vigils in the Adoration Chapel, we are pleased to announce two more overnight vigils on the following dates:

November 1st 6pm-8am
November 24th 6pm-8am

Additionally, the following activities are planned by our volunteer, Theresa, for the November 1st vigil:

Saturday, November 1 at 7:30 PM (All Saints’ Day):
“We will begin with a communal Rosary followed by the Litany of the Saints, gathering to honor and seek the intercession of all the holy men and women who have attained eternal life.“
Sunday, November 2 at 12:00 AM (All Souls’ Day):
“We will pray a Rosary for the Holy Souls in Purgatory, followed by the Litany of the Holy Souls, offering our prayers for the faithful departed and those most in need of God’s mercy.”

“This will be a prayerful time of devotion and reflection, transitioning from the celebration of the Saints into the solemn remembrance of the Holy Souls.”
If interested in attending, please sign up for an adoration slot! Or call the Rectory. By doing so, we will be able to see engagement and interest in overnight adoration.

– St. Joseph’s Church in Greenwich Village
https://stjosephgv.weadorehim.com/

Mary visits Elizabeth

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(Luke 1:39-45)

The Visit of Mary to Elizabeth (Philippe de Champaigne, 1602-1674)

Mary went to visit her cousin Elizabeth, who was also pregnant. When Mary entered the house and called a greeting, Elizabeth felt her baby move within her. Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit and said “You are the most blessed of all women, and blessed is the child you will bear!” She went on to say that her baby jumped with gladness at the sound of Mary’s voice.

Understanding the text

  • Elizabeth is Mary’s cousin. She is now elderly and she and her husband, Zechariah, have never been able to have children. Now Elizabeth is pregnant as God has worked a miracle so they can conceive.
  • Their child will grow up to be John the Baptist, the person whose role in life is to prepare people for Jesus.
  • Mary goes to visit her cousin Elizabeth when both of them are expecting their babies. Elizabeth’s baby “leaped in her womb” when Mary entered the house and called a greeting. 
  • This incident shows that even though they are not yet born, John acknowledges the superiority of Jesus and recognises that Jesus is God’s son.

Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

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The call which comes from this important feast day is first of all a call to Eucharistic adoration, because in the Sacred Host the Lord Jesus is truly present and He offers each of us His Heart, His Merciful Love. To spend time in the Presence of the Eucharistic Lord, to adore Him, is the best expression of devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus which, as we know, spread all over the world thanks to Jesus’ revelations to Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque in the 17th century: “Behold the Heart which so loved mankind”!

As a prolongation and accomplishment of this message, the Lord appeared to another Sister in the 20th century revealing the abyss of His unfathomable mercy; she was Saint Faustina Kowalska who wrote in her Diary, now world famous, these words of Jesus: “I have opened my Heart as a living source of Mercy, from it all souls draw life, all approach with deep confidence this sea of Mercy. Sinners will obtain justification and the just will be strengthened in goodness. I will fill the souls of those who put their trust in My Mercy with My divine peace at the hour of their death. My daughter, continue to spread devotion to My Mercy, in doing so you will refresh My Heart which burns with the fire of compassion for sinners. Tell my priests that hardened sinners will be softened by their words if they speak of my boundless Mercy and of the compassion which My Heart feels for them. I will give priests who proclaim and exalt My Mercy wondrous power, unction to their words and I will move all the hearts to which they speak” (Book 5, 21 January 1938).

The deepest longing of Christ’s Heart is that we discover how much he loves us, the extent of his tender love for creatures who, cooled by their selfishness, look only inwards at themselves, as if they were afraid to let themselves be loved unconditionally by their Creator, who asks nothing and gives all!

Close to the Heart of the Son is the Heart of the Mother whom the Church celebrates the day after the solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Let it again be the Holy Father who illuminates us with regard to this mystery: “The heart that resembles that of Christ more than any other is without a doubt the Heart of Mary, his Immaculate Mother, and for this very reason the liturgy holds them up together for our veneration. Responding to the Virgin’s invitation at Fatima, let us entrust the whole world to her Immaculate Heart, which we contemplated yesterday in a special way, so that it may experience the merciful love of God and know true peace” (Benedict XVI, Angelus 5 June 2005). 

Photograph by Lisa Silvestri