The Catholic visually impaired community gathered at a Manhattan church Wednesday, Dec. 13, to celebrate the feast day of their patroness, St. Lucy.
The annual Mass at St. Francis Xavier Church is organized by the Xavier Society for the Blind, a Catholic organization that provides biblical sources and faith materials in Braille for free to blind Catholics across the globe.
Father Jamie Dennis, a blind priest from the Diocese of Owensboro, Kentucky, used their materials to celebrate the liturgy for St. Lucy. He said the Mass helps the community grow together in faith.
After Mass the people in attendance were able to venerate the relics of St. Lucy and St. Angela Merici, another patroness of the blind.