Nine Church Walk

Thanks to our volunteers who greeted pilgrims taking part in the Nine Church Walk on Good Friday. The pilgrims started arriving almost at the completion of our Holy Thursday vigil at 6:00am, and they continued into the early afternoon, until we started preparing for the Good Friday service. In past years we’ve had well over 2,000 people came to visit St. Stephen’s on Friday, and the last two years the groups have been very small due to COVID19. We were glad to see the large groups this Good Friday! Anybody who doubts the vitality of the Catholic Church in New Orleans need only to see the busloads of high school groups, CYO groups, and large families taking part in the walk to have their doubts removed. It was a joy to greet many pilgrims from other parishes in the Archdiocese.