It marks the first step in a three-phase renovation with plans to add an additional 100 relics as well as perpetual memorial candles within the next year.
By Joseph Myers • Posted January 12, 2021
As Catholics wound down the Christmas season last week with the feast of the Baptism of the Lord on Sunday, a group of worshipers at the National Shrine of St. Rita in South Philadelphia instead focused on a beginning, that of the shrine’s Reconciliation, Adoration and Witness (RAW) celebration on Wednesday, Jan. 6.
With the sun setting only minutes before the 5 p.m. start, shrine director Jonathan Jerome and Father Robert Guessetto, the prior of the Augustinian community at the shrine, called on figurative light to encourage the small crowd to examine the importance of the night’s themes to one’s spiritual path.