The Relic of St. Mary Magdalene

It's been just over a week since we were visited by the relic of St. Mary Magdalene. Monsignor's letter in a previous blog posting provides beautiful words that sum up how awed we all were with all the faithful who visited and with the beautiful witness that St. Mary Magdalene provides of the risen Christ even to this day.

We've put together some things from that visit all on one page on the St. Landry Catholic Church website. That web page is found at: http://www.stlandrycatholicchurch.org/html/stmarymagdalene.html

The first link on that page goes to a photo gallery of the complete day ... from the preparations, to the arrival of the relic, a day's worth of veneration, a mass, Eucharistic adoration with veneration, and the final packing up. Click here for the photos ... more than 600 of them.

Next, we have podcasts ... audio files of events of the day.

First, we have a French language presentation about the relic from Dominican Father Romaric. Father Romaric has 500,000 pilgrims visit his church each year to see the relic. Click here for an 8 minute long French presentation.

Second, we have an English language homily from the noon time mass that day. This homily was given by Father Romaric. Click here for a 4 minute homily.

Third, we have an English language presentation about the relic given by Richard Borgman. Richard was instrumental in organizing the tour of the relic here in the United States. Richard works with the John Paul II Training Center in Gainesville, Georgia and The Emmanuel Community. To hear his 48 minute presentation, click here.

And fourth, we have the entire mass from that day posted. It was heart warming to see St. Landry Catholic Church so full of people and you can hear their many voices singing in this podcast. Click here for the mass.

Over the next few weeks, we hope to have another first for our web presence: videos. It is the next step in our answering the Holy Father's call to utilize new technologies to evangelize. We have hours of unedited footage from that day that we hope to put together in nice small packages for everyone to enjoy. We'll announce when they are available on the blog. We'll put links to them on the St Mary Magdalene page.