The parishioners Holy Rosary Church in Passaic were happy to have the Blessed Mother for an extended visit. It was difficult to break away from dinner since we were enjoying one another’s company, but I needed to bring Our Lady to West Orange. As I arrived at Holy Rosary in Passaic about 700 people of all ages had gathered to say farewell to Our Lady. Their faith and their great devotion to Our Lady of Czestochowa were truly edifying.
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Our Lady continued her journey through the mountains and lakes of northern New Jersey, visiting Our Lady Queen of Peace Church in Hewitt. Hewitt is a part of West Milford near Greenwood Lake – a large lake that straddles the New York-New Jersey border. Dutch settlers from Milford, later renamed Newark by the English, settled the area in the 18th century.
I have known the Pastor of Queen of Peace Church, Fr. Michael Rodak, since my days as a parish priest in Bloomfield, NJ, when he was discerning a vocation to the priesthood. I arrived on October 2 for a Holy Hour at 3:00 P.M.. That evening I offered Mass. There was a very enthusiastic group of Polish ladies who welcomed Our Lady.
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Truly, the Blessed Mother unites Christians of many different backgrounds. All over Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia one finds strong devotion to the Mother of Christ, the one who points us to her Son and says as she did at Cana, “Do whatever he tells you.”
So it has been especially edifying for me – and not at all a surprise – that so many of Polish descent go out of their way to welcome the Black Madonna on her pilgrim journey. When Father Greg Golba, the associate pastor at Our Lady of the Lake Church in Sparta, New Jersey and an immigrant from Poland, heard that the pilgrim icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa was coming to New Jersey he immediately made arrangements to have her visit. Deacon Kamil Piotr Wierzbicki, who will be ordained a priest next year, was also very excited and welcoming.
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Benjamin Franklin called New Jersey "a barrel tapped at both ends" since it is sandwiched between two large cities: New York in the northeast and Philadelphia in the southwest. It is the most densely populated state in the union with 1,205 inhabitants per square mile (465 /km2), and is the third wealthiest state with a median household income of $67,458.
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Before beginning the North American leg of the From Ocean to Ocean Peregrination in Defense of Life, I met with His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon, who leads the Orthodox Church in America, along with some of his brother priests in Syosset, New York. His Beatitude has represented the Orthodox Church at the March for Life in Washington, DC.
- 400 Catholic Singles Learn about Icons, Eastern Rites and Pray for the Protection of Life at Conference in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania
- Defending Religious Liberty in Libertytown
- Walking in the Steps of St. John Neumann in Pennsylvania
- Good vs. Evil in the Streets of Philadelphia
- Our Lady Visits "The City of Brotherly Love"
- Our Lady Prays Before Three Abortion Mills in One Day
- Our Lady of Czestochowa Visits the Earliest Known Replica of the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes
- Our Lady Visits Her Future Priests at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary on the Feast of the Holy Name of Mary
- A Light Shines in the Darkness - September 11
- Our Lady of Czestochowa Reveals Herself as a Mother of Mercy at Our Lady of Sorrows Church in Fairfax, Virginia