The Marian Shrine in Stony Point hosted its Rise Up Festival this weekend in honor of the Solemnity of the Assumption.
The annual event draws together families and friends from around the area for a day of fun and faith including Mass celebrated by Bishop Edmund Whalen, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of New York and vicar for clergy.
On Good Shepherd Sunday and the World Day of Prayer for Vocations, Archbishop Hicks celebrates Jesus, the ultimate Good Shepherd, and reminds us to embrace the smell of the sheep.
By:
Archbishop Ronald Hicks
| 04/26/2026
Ordained priests called to be channels, not filters, for a suffering humanity.
By:
OSV News
| 04/26/2026
“We are grateful the lives of the President, those who protect him, and everyone in attendance last night were spared from serious harm," said Archbishop Paul S. Coakley.