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All That Matters: A Return to the Eucharistic Heart of the United States of America, by Jeffrey Bruno  – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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The National Shrine of Our Lady of La Leche is a Catholic Marian shrine located at the Nombre de Dios Mission in St. Augustine, Florida. Originally built in 1609 in honor of Our Lady of La Leche—a Marian apparition popular among the Spanish settlers in the area—it is the oldest shrine in the United States. It was elevated to national shrine status in 2019 and received a canonical coronation in 2021. Image CC BY 2.0. Wikipedia.

By Jeffrey Bruno, National Catholic Register, May 27, 2026

Jeffrey Bruno is an award-winning photojournalist and creative director whose vocation is to present the beauty and mission of the Catholic Church around the globe

 

Before there was a nation, there was an altar. Now, 461 years after the first Catholic missionaries landed in St. Augustine, pilgrims once again carry Christ into the heart of America.

Jeffrey BrunoIt was cold, dark, and rainy as the jet, almost an hour delayed, began its taxi toward the runway at JFK.

I looked through the tiny raindrop-covered window and thought about where I’d been and where I was going.

That morning, in one small corner of New York, I had stood among a group of young people robed in red as a bishop traced the sign of the cross with sacred chrism on their foreheads and spoke the timeless words: “Be sealed with the gift of the Holy Spirit.”

Confirmation.

The third sacrament of initiation into the Catholic faith.

How fitting. …

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