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PORTLAND, Ore. (CNS) — Dakota Hulsey was diligently setting up tables in a downtown Portland restaurant Oct. 17.
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw 225 people walking in procession behind the Eucharist on busy Northwest Everett Street. Hulsey paused for a moment, went to the window and gazed with folded hands, purple surgical gloves and all.
“I’m not Catholic,” he said. “I just recently found God.”
What Hulsey had witnessed was a morning procession from St. Mary’s Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception to a city park where Portland Archbishop Alexander K. Sample offered a rosary for peace and conducted an exorcism for a city that has witnessed peaceful racial justice protests peppered with riots for more than four months.
Two demonstrators have been killed over election-related division and many police injured. In early October, groups promoting indigenous rights toppled popular statues of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt.
“There is no better time than in the wake of civil unrest and the eve of the elections to come together in prayer, especially here in Portland,” Archbishop Sample said before the procession.
“The Catholic Church takes the promotion of unity, and accordingly peace, as belonging to the innermost nature of the church,” he said. “For this reason, the church fosters solidarity among peoples, and calls peoples and nations to sacrifices of advantages of power and wealth for the sake of solidarity of the human family.”
Catholics across western Oregon took part in the morning prayers Oct. 17 via livestream. There were almost 8,000 views on Facebook.
“Mary, your son is the Prince of Peace,” the archbishop said as he knelt before the Blessed Sacrament, placed on an altar under spreading elm trees. “Through your intercession, may he bring peace to our cities and our communities, may his peace reign in our hearts.” Prayers were offered in English, Latin, Spanish, Vietnamese and Tagalog.
The archbishop conducted a Latin exorcism rite meant to cleanse a community of evil.
Continued below.
Archbishop Sample leads rosary, exorcism to bring peace to Portland, Ore. - Our Sunday Visitor
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw 225 people walking in procession behind the Eucharist on busy Northwest Everett Street. Hulsey paused for a moment, went to the window and gazed with folded hands, purple surgical gloves and all.
“I’m not Catholic,” he said. “I just recently found God.”
What Hulsey had witnessed was a morning procession from St. Mary’s Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception to a city park where Portland Archbishop Alexander K. Sample offered a rosary for peace and conducted an exorcism for a city that has witnessed peaceful racial justice protests peppered with riots for more than four months.
Two demonstrators have been killed over election-related division and many police injured. In early October, groups promoting indigenous rights toppled popular statues of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt.
“There is no better time than in the wake of civil unrest and the eve of the elections to come together in prayer, especially here in Portland,” Archbishop Sample said before the procession.
“The Catholic Church takes the promotion of unity, and accordingly peace, as belonging to the innermost nature of the church,” he said. “For this reason, the church fosters solidarity among peoples, and calls peoples and nations to sacrifices of advantages of power and wealth for the sake of solidarity of the human family.”
Catholics across western Oregon took part in the morning prayers Oct. 17 via livestream. There were almost 8,000 views on Facebook.
“Mary, your son is the Prince of Peace,” the archbishop said as he knelt before the Blessed Sacrament, placed on an altar under spreading elm trees. “Through your intercession, may he bring peace to our cities and our communities, may his peace reign in our hearts.” Prayers were offered in English, Latin, Spanish, Vietnamese and Tagalog.
The archbishop conducted a Latin exorcism rite meant to cleanse a community of evil.
Continued below.
Archbishop Sample leads rosary, exorcism to bring peace to Portland, Ore. - Our Sunday Visitor
