By Currents News
Bishop Robert Brennan gave this homily during the Lenten Pilgrimage stop at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Roman Catholic Church in Queens, New York on March 7, 2025.
This year, there are 37 churches along the pilgrimage route, with the excitement heightened by the Catholic Church’s Jubilee Year.
Bishop Robert Brennan has designated six churches as shrine churches for the Jubilee Year. These churches, which are all along the Lenten pilgrimage route, will serve as destinations for a different type of pilgrimage — faith journeys that the faithful can take in the hope of being indulgences, the removal of temporal punishment for their sins.
The six churches are the Cathedral Basilica of St. James in Downtown Brooklyn, the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph in Prospect Heights, St. Jude Shrine Church in Canarsie, Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Church in Forest Hills, Sacred Heart of Jesus Church in Bayside, and the Shrine Church of St. Gerard Majella in Hollis.
Participants can mark their progress on the pilgrimage through an app — Lenten Pilgrimage — created by DeSales Media Group, the ministry that produces The Tablet and Currents News. The app is available in the Apple Store and Google Play. There is also a paper passport that pilgrims can use to mark off the churches they have visited.
Even if parishioners are not able to participate in person, they can still join the community online through the app to see all of the pilgrimage stops and even make prayer requests. Participants can get more information by visiting lent.dioceseofbrooklyn.org/.