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SOUTH AKRON EUCHARISTIC PROCESSION 2022
FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHT
Oct. 28, 2022 - Akron, Ohio
While many Akron residents attended Friday Night Lights at area high school football games, over 100 Catholics participated in a candlelit Eucharistic Procession down Brown St. in Akron, paying homage to the Light of the World. Beginning at St. Paul Catholic Church and ending at Holy Ghost Ukrainian Catholic Church, the devout gathered and solemnly prayed as Fathers Matthew Pfeiffer and Vsevolod (Sal) Shevchuk accompanied the Blessed Sacrament on the journey while praying the Holy Rosary.
Billed as the opportunity to “bring Jesus and Mary to the streets of Akron” the procession encountered members of the community who paused to bow their heads in prayer as they passed by.
“Our group has organized half a dozen Eucharistic processions over the past 2 years throughout the City,” commented Rosemary Reed of Our Mother’s Hands ministry. “We are so blessed to have a large group of good and holy priests in this area who remind us that the Eucharist is the Source and Summit of our Faith.”
The procession was planned to coordinate with the Friday evening Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) at St. Paul’s, which presented an opportunity for those attendees who do not normally attend the TLM to experience the richness and beauty of it. Concluding at a Ukrainian Catholic Church was another opportunity for the faithful to experience something out of the ordinary since, while in full communion with the Church, most have only been inside Roman Catholic churches. (And even more do not realize the Catholic Church actually consists of over twenty churches.)
Fr. Sal ended the evening by stressing not just the beauty but the symbolism of the evening as he pointed out that he and Fr. Pfeiffer had removed Jesus, as the Holy Eucharist, from the tabernacle of a Roman Catholic Latin Rite church and had together placed Him into the tabernacle of a Ukrainian Catholic Church. Especially, at this time of war and strife in the Ukraine, it was a perfect expression of the united prayer of all Catholics.
ST. PAUL TO HOLY GHOST UKRAINIAN 2022
