This parish in downtown Los Angeles has had a revival and it looks like it is centered on Our Lady!

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by Luis Sinco, Los Angeles Times

On Saturday, I was assigned to photograph the Third Annual Grand Marian Procession at La Placita Church in downtown Los Angeles.

Organized by a Catholic devotional society called the Queen of Angels Foundation, the event featured a parade of Catholic faithful wheeling a float, adorned with flowers and a statue of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus, through the streets of L.A. to the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.

On a warm, sunny afternoon, hundreds of people joined the procession, which traces its roots to the founding of the city 232 years ago, when a small band of settlers held a Mass and cavalcade to honor the Virgin, or Lady of the Angels, to whom they dedicated and named their new outpost.

The settlers came from Mexico, which then was a colony of Spain – and this weekend’s festivities had a distinctly Latino flavor, with participants, dancers and musicians largely reflecting cultures from south of the border.

It struck me that the more things change, the more they stay the same. Latinos now form a majority of the population in the metropolitan pueblo of 21st century Los Angeles, which continues to attract people from all corners of the Earth – and especially Mexico and Central America.

It is fitting that this old tradition is experiencing a modern revival.

via From La Placita Church to Our Lady of the Angels, a modern revival – Framework – Photos and Video – Visual Storytelling from the Los Angeles Times.

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Homily #150804b ( 05min) Play – Fr. Joseph on the life of St. John Vianney who was a parish priest in France and reached great heights of sanctity and in the process transformed his parish.
Ave Maria!
Mass: St. John Vianney – Mem – Form: OF
Readings: Tuesday 18th Week of Ordinary Time (Opt 2)
1st: num 12:1-13
Resp: psa 51:3-4, 5-6, 6-7, 12-13
Gsp: mat 15:1-2, 10-14

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Ave Maria!

This is a video we shot of the beautiful parish of St. John the Apostle’s in Bloomington, IN where Fr. Daniel Mahan is pastor.

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Fr Ignatius gives the homily at Bloomington, IN on Aug 04, 2020, the memorial of St. Jean Vianney (the Cure of Ars) on how a simple priest of prayer and faith can transform a parish and even a whole region.

Ave Maria!

Mass: St. Jean Vianney (the Cure of Ars) – Mem
Readings:  – https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/memorial-saint-john-vianney-priest
1st: eze 3:17-21
Resp: psa 117:1-2 0
Gsp: mat 9:35-10:1

More on the Readings: http://dev.airmaria.com/r?m=1123

Also on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/90378558559/videos/941035996398716
and YouTube: https://youtu.be/BB_pwRtclHo

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Fr Terrance gives the homily at Bloomington, IN, on Feb 25, 2023, on his experiences of strange activity in an Indiana parish rectory that provides us with some food for thought about the afterlife and doing the works of mercy of prayer and penance for souls in purgatory during this lent.

Ave Maria!

Mass: Saturday after Ash Wednesday – Wkdy
Readings:  – http://usccb.org/bible/readings/022523.cfm
1st: isa 58:9-14
Resp: psa 86:1-6
Gsp: luk 5:27-32

More on the Readings: http://dev.airmaria.com/r?m=1652

Also on Facebook: https://fb.watch/iW8tCLiLtU/
and YouTube: https://youtu.be/J51j1xlvmeY

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