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Taking HIM to the streets in Kansas City with the Catholic Youth
From The Catholic Key of Kansas City, MO.
The National Catholic Youth Conference is in full swing.
21 November 2009
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Wow! What a beautiful sight.
Comment by JustDave — 21 November 2009 @ 2:27 pmWow! I’d love to see that here. I’m about 3x too old to be IN that procession of youth, but I’d love to see it.
Comment by yatzer — 21 November 2009 @ 2:36 pmImpressive.
Comment by NurseNell — 21 November 2009 @ 2:38 pmI echo JustDave’s comment-wow, indeed!
That is sooo cool! God bless Bishop Finn!
Yeah, yatzer, I’m ‘too old’ to be at that conference, but I would have loved to see this, too!
Comment by irishgirl — 21 November 2009 @ 2:55 pmHow beautiful. Deo Gratias. I haven’t qualified as a youth for many moons, but what a blessing for the Church and the world. I would love to see this in MD.
Comment by wanda — 21 November 2009 @ 3:04 pmWhat a marvelous sight. I am so used to seeing only loud “protest” kinds of marches in the streets. The contrast of a joyful reverence for God should turn heads and hearts.
Comment by TKS — 21 November 2009 @ 3:06 pmThis is just over-the-top stupendous!
Comment by nazareth priest — 21 November 2009 @ 3:13 pmThank you, Archbishop Naumann and Bishop Finn, for your leadership in this extraordinary witness to the Real Presence of Jesus in the Holy Eucharist, and the proper way to adore and honor Him.
And to the organizers and participants, bless you! This made reparation for all the awful things happening throughout the world these past days.
Absolutelty AWESOME! Witness or what? On a cold, wet, stormy, miserable Saturday here in Ireland this just lifted me right up.
Comment by jaykay — 21 November 2009 @ 4:07 pmShouldn’t that be “Taking IHM to the streets…”? ;-)
A lovely sight. Now if we could just get that turnout for the Corpus Christi procession in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.
Comment by Greg Smisek — 21 November 2009 @ 4:47 pmWe need many more of these!
Comment by Fr. Marie-Paul — 21 November 2009 @ 4:57 pmEvery imaginable parade passes under the sun on New York’s 5th Avenue..Can’t we get one of these? I wonder if the city would grant a permit for this.
Comment by Mitchell NY — 21 November 2009 @ 5:23 pmHere you go, Mitchell NY:
http://www.grassrootsfilms.com/clip/trailer_god_in_the_streets_large.html
By the way, this is an awesome piece of news, Father. Glory to God in the Highest!
Comment by Dr. Eric — 21 November 2009 @ 5:46 pm“IHM ”
Comment by Greg Smisek — 21 November 2009 @ 5:58 pmSorry, miss-firing synapses. Never mind.
A very positive and inspiring photo!
Comment by Maltese — 21 November 2009 @ 6:06 pmMy 15 and 16 year old daughters are there right now. Got a few texts about what a wonderful time they are having.
Comment by Cath — 21 November 2009 @ 6:19 pmAwesome!
Comment by Totus Tuus — 21 November 2009 @ 6:54 pmI had the opportunity to be there, but unfortunately I wasn’t able to get out of school to do so.
Seeing such a beautiful photo just drives home what I have sadly missed.
God bless those youth, and God bless the priests snd bishops who were there!
This is all very nice and beautiful to see.
Then again, thousands upon thousands of Catholic youths have come out to see the Pope at the various World Youth Days. So, . . . I’m still kind of wondering where the New Spring of Renewal is?
As Fr. Z would say: I’m just askin’.
Comment by mwidunn — 21 November 2009 @ 6:57 pmWow, I’d love to see that in Montreal—or anywhere in Quebec! Absolutely amazing.
Comment by chloesmom — 21 November 2009 @ 7:02 pmIt’s amazing how things have changed in the Church since Pope Benedict’s election. I attended the same event in 2006, and let’s just say that this did not happen. Now this gives me hope that they might be doing some authentic Catholic music at the closing Mass rather than the Praise Jesus-Rock Style stuff.
Comment by zgietl — 21 November 2009 @ 7:18 pmThe day the closing Mass of such a conference is done reverently, ad orientem with Gregorian Chant and incense in a suitable Church… that day shall do more to solve our various vocations crises than most other days in this pontificate.
Comment by Hidden One — 21 November 2009 @ 7:33 pmSublimely beatiful. Deo Gratias.
What is that massive thing in the background? One of the spaceships from V?
Comment by Sean P. Dailey — 21 November 2009 @ 8:08 pm‘Taking IHM to the streets’. I love it, good one, Greg.
Comment by wanda — 21 November 2009 @ 8:31 pmThe day everyone in the world gets a pony:
Some people will only see it as a waste removal problem.
Some people will complain because it’s not a Clydesdale, or it’s the wrong color.
Some people will complain that it moves and makes noise.
Some people will complain that it only makes enough soup for a few days, and after that the meat and hooves are all gone.
But some people will just be happy to have a pony, and other people will ride.
Comment by Suburbanbanshee — 21 November 2009 @ 8:32 pmI love the street sign above the procession.
Comment by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf — 21 November 2009 @ 8:32 pmI was just posting something about the street sign Father…. you beat me to it.
Comment by pyrosapien — 21 November 2009 @ 8:43 pmSean P. Daily asked about the spaceship in the background – that is KC’s new arena – The Sprint Center. Yes, it does look like a giant spaceship.
Comment by Father Totton — 21 November 2009 @ 9:04 pm“I love the street sign above the procession.”
Which sign, Father? “Main Street” or the one partially obscured in the back, “Power and Light”...
Comment by Tom Ryan — 21 November 2009 @ 9:21 pmKewl… the Priest (now Bishop) who married my wife and I is in that pic!
Comment by GordonB — 21 November 2009 @ 9:23 pmOh no! Someone else with the same name…
Comment by Tom Ryan — 21 November 2009 @ 10:07 pm“Oh no! Someone else with the same name…”
Tom, it could be worse. You could be attending Thanksgiving Dinner at the home of former boxer, George Foreman (and his five sons, all named George).
Tom Ryan
Comment by Tom Ryan — 21 November 2009 @ 10:24 pmThis is right through the heart of KC’s new Power & Light District filled with Restuarants & Bars. I’d love to some pics in middle of the procession of the people looking out the restuarant windows. Way more people here in that area than last years Big 12 Hoop Tourney. Way MORE and whats pathetic is I can’t find one mention of it on the KCStar’s web frontpage and they wonder why no one is reading their liberal crap. The story makes just a little page 2 item. They do have photo gallery of 126 pics but none show the size of the procession. Just close ups of kids on cell phones etc…
Comment by john 654 — 21 November 2009 @ 10:34 pmBeing only a few years older than these kids, it’s really comforting to see these faithful Catholics. It’s really heartening on days when I find our Church smeared in our campus paper.
Comment by MikeM — 21 November 2009 @ 11:26 pmWhat I miss most from my short time living in Germany, the public processions like this. Deo Gratias
Comment by Sandra_in_Severn — 21 November 2009 @ 11:35 pm“O when the saints… go marchin’ in!” Imagine such processions occurring in all major North American cities on regular basis – Corpus Christi, for starters. Our lamp no longer hidden under a bushel. Ecclesia Militans!
Comment by Warren — 22 November 2009 @ 1:06 amI have never seen such a sea of polyester! If only they would wear garments that are befitting such an occasion.
Comment by JFrater — 22 November 2009 @ 4:56 amFr Z mentions the street sign and someone asks which one – Main Street or Power and Light.
Both are very appropriate if you think of Christ’s words when He said ‘I am the Way, the Truth and the Light.’
Comment by pelerin — 22 November 2009 @ 6:59 amthe observaion about the pony is apropos. Much as we might like to see more dignified vestments, can’t we just be thankful this morrning that 22k Catholic youth would form up and follow our Eucharistic Lord in an expression f faith? In 97 this didn’t happen a NCYC, so ride your pony and shut up!
Comment by Father Totton — 22 November 2009 @ 7:13 amGod bless Bishop Finn! Ad multos annos!
Comment by TNCath — 22 November 2009 @ 8:13 amThe bearded and bald OCarm in the far right in the photo is the assistant pastor at a parish when I sometimes attend mass.
Small world.
Comment by robtbrown — 22 November 2009 @ 9:24 amThe Church militant. What a show of power. Sadly we never see such things in California. We are known for our three days of darkness in Los Angeles every year. The diocese of Fresno tries to imitate LA with an education congress but it is nothing at all like this picture.
Comment by Central Valley — 22 November 2009 @ 10:06 amToday, the Feast of Christ the King in the OF calendar, is also designated as Youth Sunday in England and Wales (don’t ask why…). I wish I thought there was anything remotely as wonderful as this going on anywhere in England and Wales today.
Comment by pattif — 22 November 2009 @ 10:51 amGreg, I’ll get it right eventually. I think ‘Taking IHS to the streets’ is what you were going for. Still a great one.
I wonder what is changing hands there in the lower left of the picture, between a man on the sidewalk and someone in the procession? Thoughts anyone? I’ll wager that it is not Holy Communion from one of those pez-dispensers.
Comment by wanda — 22 November 2009 @ 11:16 amWanda, My guess is that what you see there is a cleric, or a seminarian, who encounters somebody he knows and wants to say “hello” by shaking hands, but lacks the awareness that the procession is still going on – This often happens in some parishes at the end of Mass when the priest feels an impulse to glad-hand as he makes the path down the center aisle.
Comment by Father Totton — 22 November 2009 @ 11:25 amActually, there seems to be something in the guy’s hand which he’s giving the seminarian. The question is what?
A) Offering.
B) Chick Tract.
C) Restaurant menu with coupons.
Comment by Suburbanbanshee — 22 November 2009 @ 11:33 am“We don’t care about no stinking red lights!”
What an edifying sight.
Comment by Thomas in MD — 23 November 2009 @ 10:25 amSuburbanbanshee: I believe the thing the seminarian is being handed or giving back is a water bottle—and an Arrowroot one at that.
Comment by Sacristymaiden — 23 November 2009 @ 1:55 pmTradition, beauty ,reverance, awe, and all those who do not know why, maybe wanting to find out. Wonderful, wonderful.
Comment by ssoldie — 23 November 2009 @ 3:40 pm