Washington Marian pilgrimage gathers Asian communities
As 10 members of the youth group from Our Lady of Vietnam Parish in Silver Spring, Maryland, dramatically played traditional drums at the front of the sanctuary of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, the 20th annual Asian and Pacific Island Catholics Marian Pilgrimage May 6 opened with a procession of nearly two dozen Catholic communities with roots in that part of the world.
The pilgrimage was sponsored by the Asian and Pacific Catholic Network, in collaboration with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Secretariat of Cultural Diversity in the Church and related offices of the Archdiocese of Washington and the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia. Before the Mass, the joyful mysteries of the rosary were prayed in different languages and led by members of the Couples for Christ from northern Virginia; the Korean Catholic community from New Jersey; the Burmese Catholic community from Metro Washington; the Asian Catholic community of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia; and the Syro-Malankara Eastern Catholic Rite from the Archdiocese of Washington.
He emphasized that"the aim of the Church of Christ cannot be achieved by a secular ‘multiculturalism,' as noble and much needed as such an accomplishment may be, especially at this time in history." Then offertory gifts were brought to the cardinal by representatives of some of the communities wearing native dress.
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