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At Washington’s Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, carillonneur Robert Grogan has filled the sky with music after Mass for decades — a resounding echo of Easter joy.
Through concerts in the Eternal City for the 2025 Jubilee, the shrine choir sought to help uplift and transform the hearts and minds of fellow pilgrims through the power and beauty of sacred music.
‘The month of October is the month of Mary, the month of the Rosary,’ said Pope St. John Paul II. ‘I urge everyone, especially Christian families, to find in the Holy Rosary a daily strength and support for walking the path of fidelity.’
The statue appeared to have been struck in the face with a hammer. Light fixtures along a walkway in the garden were also shattered.
The doors are sealed prior to the jubilee but are ceremoniously reopened by the Pope or a bishop around the start of the jubilee for pilgrims to walk through.
Archbishop Timothy Broglio, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, blessed and sealed the two doors, which are scheduled to be reopened on Christmas Eve next year as a Holy Door for pilgrims.
The pilgrimage was held one day before the start of the Month of the Rosary in October and concluded a nine-month Rosary novena.
This pilgrimage promises to set forth the substance of the Church’s belief as passed down from age to age — with Christ at the center, fired by genuine devotion
Multiple elements from his body will be visiting the nation’s largest Catholic church this weekend.
A widespread activistic and anti-ecclesial spirit threatens authentic synodality.
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