MANILA - Manila Archbishop Gaudencio Cardinal B. Rosales left this month for the United States and Canada to meet Filipinos there, celebrate masses, and promote his Pondo ng Pinoy project. (Reports are that he will also visit Maryland in the course of his trip.)
Highlight of his trip was the mass at St.Patrick's Cathedral in New York City on Sept. 24. He went there upon the invitation of the Archbishop of New York Edward Cardinal Egan. The mass marked the feast of the first Filipino saint,
San Lorenzo Ruiz.
His first stop in the U.S. will be in Birmingham, Alabama
where he was interviewed on Sept. 20 for a live broadcast at EWTN, the 24-hour
Catholic cable channel which is beamed worldwide.
From there he proceeded to the Mary
Immaculate Marycrest Convent in Monroe,
New York on Sept. 22 where he
celebrated mass and gave a talk to religious and lay people.
After New York City,
he went to Philadelphia
on Sept. 26-29 to visit his siblings and other relatives based there and also
to celebrate a mass for the Filipino communities. Then he proceeded to Boston on Sept. 29-Oct. 2
to celebrate masses for the Filipino communities there.
He will then go into a retreat from Oct.
2 to 7 at the Mepkin Abbey in South Carolina.
Filipino Bishop Oscar Solis will welcome him in Los Angeles where he will stay from Oct. 7 to
10, meeting with Filipinos and celebrating masses with them. He will visit
family members in Vancouver, Canada on Oct. 11 before flying back to Manila on Oct. 12. He was
accompanied on his trip by his secretary Fr. Reginald Malicdem.
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