The Napa Institute is inviting the faithful to join its annual October Eucharistic procession through Midtown Manhattan. 

In this year’s event, which will take place Oct. 14, three cardinals will lead Benediction, celebrate Mass, and offer Eucharistic meditations. 

“We are delighted to have the following priests and cardinals lead us in this powerful spiritual witness: His Eminence Timothy Cardinal Dolan, His Eminence Sean Cardinal O’Malley, His Eminence Giorgio Cardinal Marengo, and Fr. Ambrose Criste,” Napa stated in a recently emailed press release, noting that the annual procession is getting bigger every year.

The free event will begin in the afternoon with meditations at St. Patrick’s Cathedral led by Fr. Criste and Cardinal Marengo, who is an Italian cardinal who has served for more than two decades as a Consolata missionary in Mongolia, according to the College of Cardinals Report. In 2022, Pope Francis created him a cardinal at age 48, making him one of the youngest members of the College of Cardinals.  

Cardinal O’Malley, archbishop emeritus of Boston, will then celebrate Mass at the historic St. Patrick’s Cathedral. 

The Eucharistic procession will commence after Mass, and the faithful will process out of the church, as they did last October, onto a route marked by skyscrapers on each side of their road. Tuesday commuters will likely be “disrupted” by the street closures necessary for the procession, but like last year’s event, it will be a disruption that offers an encounter with Jesus Himself. 

At the conclusion of the procession, Cardinal Dolan, archbishop of New York, will give the Benediction. The Napa Institute is asking attendees to register for the event here.