Posted on 09/16/2018 5:20:02 PM PDT by marshmallow
Sunday’s event was the largest Catholic procession in England since Pope St. John Paul II's visit to Britain in 1982.
Last Sunday through the rain they walked.
Approximately 10,000 people gathered for the largest Catholic procession in England since Pope John Paul II's visit to Britain in 1982. This was the culminating act of the 2018 Eucharistic Congress then taking place in Liverpool.
This was a Eucharistic procession with a difference though.
On English streets it was a very public act of worship — an act of faith in the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Christ.
The procession comes at a time when the Church of Christ is in the grip of a purification as painful as it is necessary.
The English rain and gray skies were, therefore, appropriate. For this was a trail of tears walked alongside the One who is crucified anew in the bodies of the innocents preyed upon and wounded by those who bear the name Christian and yet, by their actions, make sacrifice to a very different master.
The Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster Vincent Nichols told those taking part in the procession that it was undertaken in a spirit of “prayer and penance …[without] one iota of pride or triumphalism in our steps…In many ways, ours is a penitential procession for we are focused on Jesus Christ, who we have crucified…Today I come as a beggar seeking forgiveness laying the load, hurt, damage and mistrust we have caused at the foot of the Cross.”
(Excerpt) Read more at ncregister.com ...
The muzzies are concocting a counter attack as we speak
Wait a minute!!
Just wait.
Are you saying this out in the open, hugely crowded Christian event took place in England, and nobody was arrested, stabbed or run over by an Ice Cream Delivery truck?
Well, praise God, then. There IS hope in Great Britain after all!
Color me suspicous. Nichols is a crappy bishop.
The article says ‘last Sunday’.
So that means there has been no publicity about this remarkable event at all. Until now.
If grace exists, repentance exists.
It is possible.
Color me watchful and hopeful.
The mayor of England allowed that?
Who is the mayor of England?
“So that means there has been no publicity about this remarkable event at all. Until now.”
Not quite. Here is the BBC report from the day the procession happened
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-45465233
There are a fair amount of at least nominal Irish Catholics in Liverpool due to immigration in the 19th and 20th centuries. 3 of the 4 beatles are descendants of Irish immigrants- Lennon, McCartney and Starr, whose last name is actually Starkey.
The mayor of England is a saracen.
What’s his name?
Methinks you mean the Mayor of London. England has a Prime Minister, not a Mayor.
>>>The muzzies are concocting a counter attack as we speak<<<
TOTALLY agree!
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