You can watch Fr. Donald Haggerty’s homily from this morning’s Mass at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral here.
The question asked to St. John the Baptist in today’s readings will also be asked of Jesus in His public life. “Who are you?” We’re also asked that question, and meant to testify with our lives.
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Hundreds of Catholics filled St. Patrick’s Cathedral at 7 a.m. Wednesday as Archbishop Ronald Hicks celebrated his first Ash Wednesday Mass in New York, marking the beginning of the Lenten season with prayer, repentance, and the distribution of ashes.
By:
Mary Shovlain
| 02/18/2026
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Archbishop Ronald Hicks is inviting Catholics across the Archdiocese of New York to embrace the 40 days ahead as a time of renewal, prayer and deeper focus on God.
By:
Mary Shovlain
| 02/18/2026
Jesus offers three paths that the Church has embraced as ways of going deeper into the spiritual life during this Lenten season: almsgiving, prayer, and fasting. Archbishop Hicks looks at the reason why.