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May 8, 2022: The postulants of our InterProvincial Postulancy (Chicago, IL) and their friar formators held the “May Crowning” Devotion and blessed a new garden statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe. The “May Crowning” is a time honored Catholic devotion to Our Lady, to whom the month of May is devoted through popular piety. They also extended well wishes to all mothers a very happy Mother’s Day, while asking for continued to pray for their vocations, as we also celebrated “Vocation Sunday,” the Fourth Sunday of Easter, known as Good Shepherd Sunday.
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May 8, 2022: Mariella and Daniel, regular pilgrims at of The Shrine of St. Anthony (Ellicott City, MD) crown our Lady after the prayer for Mothers, at the Noon Mass.
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At our Syracuse, NY pastoral ministry ~ Assumption Church, after receiving her First Eucharist, Grace honors Our Lady in prayer.
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May 7, 2022 Baccalaureate Mass at UNC Chapel Hill’s Newman Catholic Student Center Parish: Fr. William Robinson, OFM Conv. (Parochial Vicar & Associate Campus Minister) with a sampling of the UNC Student Graduates
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May 7, 2022: First Eucharist celebration at our Pt. Pleasant Beach, NJ pastoral ministry ~ St. Peter’s Roman Catholic Church
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Closing Mass for the May 6-8, 2022 Toni’s Camp Retreat, of the Archdiocese of Atlanta, celebrated by the Archbishop of Atlanta and a friar of our province ~ The Most Reverend Gregory J. Hartmayer, OFM Conv.