Archbishop John C. Wester calls for a Healing Among Peoples and cautions about a crisis of compassion in his recent pastoral letter promulgated September 7-8, 2019 in all archdiocesan parishes (read Archbishop Wester's Pastoral below). Acknowledging the “crisis of compassion”, he invites all people of faith to live the Lord’s command to “love one another”. He has designated the period between September 14, 2019 to April 10, 2020 as a time for all people “to undertake this pilgrimage of conversion.”
Pilgrimages are a special time of journey for personal prayer, reflection and sacrifice to implore God’s graces with each step taken. The designated destinations for pilgrims are either Tomé Hill, between Los Lunas and Belen, and El Santuario de Chimayó, north of Santa Fe. Archbishop Wester invites all people, as individuals or groups, “to pray for healing among people, for greater love for one another and for reconciliation among those who are alienated from one another.”
The pilgrimage period begins with the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross (September 14, 2019) and concludes on Good Friday (April 10, 2020). It is a time for us to reach out to one another in our homes, families and communities to heal the divisions that keep us apart from one another.
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