Guadalupe Procession

Season of Remembrance
COVID leads to scheduling changes for Las Antorchas Guadalupanas closing celebration 

Plans for the Dec. 5 Guadalupe Procession and Mass in Trenton have been changed because of an increasing number of COVID-19 cases. The event was to mark the closing of the fifth annual celebration of Las Antorchas Guadalupanas – Torches of Our Lady of Guadalupe, which this year has as its theme, “A Season of Remembrance.” Among the changes are:

• The procession around Trenton and Cathedral Square, in which a small number of designated followers would accompany the Blessed Sacrament and statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe, has been canceled.
• The Mass that will be celebrated in St. Mary of the Assumption Cathedral, 151 North Warren Street, is not open to the public. The Mass is open to the 17 torch captains and their families along with several key diocesan staff and Mass organizers. The Mass will be preceded by a procession of the torches into the Cathedral beginning at 10 a.m. followed by a remembrance service in which the names all deceased that had been submitted to the diocesan Virtual Wall of Remembrance will be read.
• The Mass, to be celebrated by Msgr. Joseph Roldan, Cathedral rector, will be livestreamed with links in both Spanish and in English.

Season of Remembrance
We Walk Together

United in faith in Jesus Christ the Lord, we bring the Guadalupe Torches in a Season of Remembrance, together on Saturday, December 5th. Many of  the faithful from all corners of the Diocese will celebrate the culmination of all the traveling torches coming together and the joy of knowing that we have prayed for the dearly departed in this Holy Souls month of November, as our Mother Church instructs us.

In the completion of the vow to pray for the Holy Souls in this Guadalupe Season of Remembrance, we entreat the Holy Souls, who are so dear to God, and who are secure of never losing Him, to pray for us who are danger of losing God forever in this valley of tears.

This Season of Remembrance is also very much a Season of Hope. We live joyfully in the hope of eternal lIfe and we die in that very hope that leads us home. Something to celebrate, indeed!

For the souls in purgatory there is great joy as well as pain as they know for certain 
they are bound for heaven!    St. Catherine of Genoa's