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Praying the Steps at Holy Cross – Immaculata Parish on March 29, 2024 . Where do I start the steps? There are three phases of the Good Friday steps. The most popular phase begins on St. Gregory and ends at Holy Cross-Immaculata Church – Phase One: from Riverside Drive (at …

Friday, November 3: 6:00 p.m. in Mt. Adams Steps below Holy Cross Immaculata Join us in praying the steps for an Ohio victory for life on November 7. Praying together allows us to ask for great things. The defeat of Issue 1 is a great thing and all prayers make …

As one walks away from a prayerful morning, Holy Cross Immaculata Church in the distance. (Greg Hartman/CT Photo)
Holy Cross Immaculata Church in Mount Adams has announced they have tentatively rescheduled the Praying of the Steps to Wednesday, May 13, 2020 which is the Feast day of Our Lady of Fatima or Saturday, August 15, 2020 which is the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary …

As one walks away from a prayerful morning, Holy Cross Immaculata Church in the distance. (Greg Hartman/CT Photo)
Today’s primer on Praying the Steps in Mt. Adams at Holy Cross Immaculata Church. What to expect: People began praying on the hillside while the church was being built and, after 1859, gathering to pray on its original steps. Eventually, the custom developed into a Good Friday observance, and for …

On Wednesday, April 4, 2018 several participants in the NCEA (National Catholic Educators Association) prayed the steps in Mt. Adams, up to Holy Cross Immaculata Church. Check out their journey:

Pilgrims from many places ascend to the summit at Holy Cross Immaculata. (Greg Hartman/CT Photo)
This month’s Bucket List takes you to three places during Holy Week, for Palm Sunday, Holy Week Tuesday, and Good Friday, all of them traditions for more than a century: Pray the steps at Mount Adams – 175+ years Palm Sunday dinner at Sacred Heart Church – 100+ years Cathedral …

By John Stegeman The Catholic Telegraph  Sometime in the 1870s, the traditional of “Praying the Steps” at Holy Cross-Immaculata Church began. It’s history is well known. In 1859 Archbishop John J. Purcell had the steps constructed to ease pilgrims ways as they came to pray for the completion of the …