Posted on 10/20/2020 5:58:16 PM PDT by marshmallow
PORTLAND, Oregon — Dakota Hulsey was diligently setting up tables in a downtown Portland restaurant Oct. 17.
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw 225 people walking in procession behind the Eucharist on busy Northwest Everett Street. Hulsey paused for a moment, went to the window and gazed with folded hands, purple surgical gloves and all.
“I’m not Catholic,” he said. “I just recently found God.”
What Hulsey had witnessed was a morning procession from St. Mary’s Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception to a city park where Portland Archbishop Alexander K. Sample offered a rosary for peace and conducted an exorcism for a city that has witnessed peaceful racial justice protests peppered with riots for more than four months.
Two demonstrators have been killed over election-related division and many police injured. In early October, groups promoting indigenous rights toppled popular statues of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt.
“There is no better time than in the wake of civil unrest and the eve of the elections to come together in prayer, especially here in Portland,” Sample said before the procession.
“The Catholic Church takes the promotion of unity, and accordingly peace, as belonging to the innermost nature of the church,” he said. “For this reason, the church fosters solidarity among peoples, and calls peoples and nations to sacrifices of advantages of power and wealth for the sake of solidarity of the human family.”
Catholics across western Oregon took part in the morning prayers Oct. 17 via livestream. There were almost 8,000 views on Facebook.
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Okay, Padre...you run the beads...I’ll warm up the SAW. Let’s bet a six pack on who finishes first, okay?
RAH!
Portland needs a giant exorcism. So does the mayor, both Demonrat senators and Gov. Brown.
Not a wise thing to wager on because of different targets. You’ll take out the living evils ones while the bishop will be cleansing the area of demonic spirits. And if some of the living evil folks are dealt with, the chances are whatever demonic spirits that might infest them, will still have to be dealt with by the bishop’s exorcism.
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“Your momma sews socks that smell!”
Point taken. LOL
Rut Roh!
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