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Photo illustration. / ShutterstockWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 5, 2023 / 14:00 pm (CNA).Every Holy Thursday, groups of Catholic faithful across the country and world embark on what s known as the Seven Churches Visitation. In this special tradition, pilgrims adore Christ in seven different altars of repose while praying and reflecting on the passion of Christ.At the end of each Holy Thursday Mass, the priest strips the altar and removes the Eucharist from the tabernacle to place it in repose on another nearby altar.The Seven Churches Visitation (or Pilgrimage) is credited as beginning in Rome with St. Philip Neri in the 1500s. Neri would lead groups of faithful to visit each of the seven basilicas of Rome on Holy Thursday night as a way of keeping watch with Christ as though at the Garden of Gethsemane before his passion. Today, the devotion is primarily practiced in Latin America, Italy, Poland, and the Philippines.Each visit calls on the faithful to reflect on the.
CHICAGO A virtual panel discussion took place on Nov. 18 promoting a new book, The Relevance of the Stars: Christ, Culture, and Destiny, a collection of essays and talks by the late physicist and theologian Msgr. Lorenzo Albacete, who was one of the leaders of Communion and Liberation in the U.S.