Our photoposts for Immaculate Conception usually include a few other things celebrated at the same time of the year, and this year, we begin with something unique, a celebration of Our Lady of Guadalupe in the Byzantine Rite. We also have pictures of another celebration in the Byzantine Rite, with the head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, and from an Apostolate of the Institute of Christ the King which we have never seen before, in Africa. For the first time, we have enough submissions to make two posts, before we move on to Gaudete and Rorate Masses, so if you don’t see yours here, they will be in the next one. As always, we wish to express our gratitude to eveyone who sent these in – evangelize through beauty!
St Mary Byzantine Catholic Church – Whiting, Indiana
The feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Patroness of the Americas: table set up in the church for the litia. (Photos courtesy of Fr Andrew Summerson).
Patronal Procession
Paroisse Notre Dame de Lourdes – Libreville, Gabon (ICKSP)
St Mary’s Parish Kalamazoo, Michigan
St Mary, Star of the Sea – Jackson, Michigan
Mater Ecclesiae – Berlin, New Jersey
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception Philadelphia – Pennsylvania (UGCC)
Matins of the titular feast, celebrated by Bishop Teodor (Martynyuk), Auxiliary of Ternopil-Zboriv in Ukraine.
Hierarchical Divine Liturgy celebrated by His Beatitude Sviatoslav (Shevchuk), the head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, along with the bishops of the Permanent Synod of the UGCC.
San Simon Piccolo – Venice, Italy (FSSP)
