Church of St. Paul the Apostle
Columbus Avenue at West 60th Street
New York City

Thursday, May 18

4:30 p.m. – Mass for the Ascension of the Lord

5:30 p.m. – Social and Dinner in the St. Paul’s Parish Center for Paulists and registered participants.

Dinner will include presentation on “The Discovery of Fr. Hecker’s Relic” by Paulist Fr. Frank Sabatté

Friday, May 19

9:00 a.m. – Pentecost Novena

9:30 a.m. – Presentation by Dr. John Farina, biographer of Fr. Hecker:

“The Old Isaac Hecker for a New Age: What we can learn about the church and society from Hecker’s Gilded Age vision”

10:30 a.m. – Responses to Dr. Farina’s presentation

11 a.m. – General Discussion

12:10 p.m. – Daily Mass

• paulist.org/hecker – Our mini-site dedicated to Servant of God Isaac Hecker. Learn about his life, mission, and the cause for his canonization.
• Novena to the Holy Spirit: Toward a More Perfect Union – A new novena that we will pray at the symposium. The Friday session of the symposium, May 19, coincides with the first day of the novena to Pentecost.
  

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