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Enthronement News Background: The first Enthronement Weekend was done on the feast of Christ the King in November of 2001 at my home parish of Saint Thomas the Apostle. The response was so great that we felt the need to bring it to other parishes. We contacted the Philadelphia Archdiocese offices to see if it could be done in all of the parishes. The response was that while these devotions have been a strong part of our Catholic heritage, they are based on private revelation, so it would be up to each Pastor as to whether he wanted it done in his parish. It was in that spirit that we proceeded. The response to the Enthronement Weekends has been overwhelming (as evidenced by the Pastor quotes and the fact that by the middle of December 2007, we have completed 97 parishes and distributed over 91,000 Enthronement Packets). Quite frankly, we had been content to do Enthronement Weekends in the Philadelphia area. However, the Holy Spirit and Blessed Mother have recently placed on our hearts a sense of urgency to help Enthronement Weekends to spread beyond the Philadelphia Archdiocese. The ministry was featured in the June 17, 2004 issue of the Catholic Standard and Times (weekly newspaper for the Philadelphia Archdiocese) and as a result this has helped spawn teams in other areas (Allentown – PA, etc.) It is our hope and prayer that someday all of our people will be given the opportunity to welcome Jesus and Mary into their homes and hearts. To this end we have documented the Enthronement Weekend process so that it can be easily started in other areas. It is our hope that this web site will be a vehicle to help spark that growth. Pope John Paul II frequently calls upon Catholics to strengthen the "domestic church" -- the family -- and this is exactly what these devotions are meant to accomplish. Our world is in desperate need of it.
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