Date/Time
Date(s) - 04/18/2019
8:00 pm - 11:00 pm
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Holy Thursday Visitation Bus
We visit 7 different churches this night and spend time with Jesus!
Churches: Starting at St. Joe’s, IHM
Assumption, St. John the Baptist
Transfiguration, St. Vincent De Paul
Cathedral of Immaculate Conception, Basilica
April 18, Holy Thursday – Bus leaves St. Joe’s parking lot at 8pm and returns before 11pm. Don’t worry, you can sleep in on Friday.
The Seven Churches Visitation is a powerful way to spend time in adoration, meditating on Christ’s sacrifice of love for the salvation of souls in preparation for the joy of Easter. At the end of the Holy Thursday Mass, the Eucharist is placed on a temporary “altar of repose” away from the sanctuary. It is customary for the faithful to process together to this altar and spend time in quiet prayer and adoration.There is something special about visiting churches late into the night. It is not just because of the opportunity to visit other parishes, it’s because of intentionally seeking Christ to spend time with Him and contemplating the gift of His love.
This tradition of visitation is a sort of pilgrimage to various altars of repose, in different churches that correspond to each of the seven places, or “stations,” that were made by Jesus between the Last Supper in the Upper Room to His crucifixion on the cross.
