{"id":263946,"date":"2026-06-12T00:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T00:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/263946\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T00:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T00:27:10","slug":"mass-of-consecration-to-jesus-through-mary-planned-at-holy-cross-in-the-bronx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/263946\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass of Consecration to Jesus Through Mary Planned at Holy Cross in the Bronx"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Saturday, June 13, the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, a Mass of Consecration to Jesus Through Mary will be celebrated at Holy Cross Church<\/a> in the Bronx, a special liturgy for 21 teenage girls finishing 33 days of preparation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Father John Higgins, pastor at Holy Cross, will serve as principal celebrant and homilist. The 10 a.m. Mass will be followed by a brunch in the Lower Church. On Friday, June 12, the parish will offer a vigil gathering. A consecration prayer will be part of the vigil and the Mass. The 33-day preparation timeline corresponds to the 33 years Jesus lived on Earth. The girls are ages 13 to 19.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sacred preparation\u00a0<\/p>\n

The program is described as \u201cA Journey of Faith, Purity, and Total Surrender.\u201d The days of preparation included presentations titled \u201cWhat Is Total Consecration to Jesus Through Mary?\u201d How Is Our Lady a Perfect Lady? and Stay Mentally Healthy with the Blessed Virgin Mary.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The preparation requirements included praying the Rosary every day (at least one decade) and watching daily, brief preparation videos. There were optional nightly Zooms to watch the videos and pray a decade of the Rosary together. There were also social gatherings that included baking cookies, making hot chocolate, teatime, and partaking in meals during two restaurant visits.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis Mass will be the culmination of the preparation, and they will consecrate themselves to Jesus through Mary. It\u2019s significant that it will be on the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary,\u201d Father Higgins told The Good Newsroom. \u201cIt will be the day that we honor her heart, her pure heart that serves as a model for these young ladies and the challenges they have in life\u2026And we have a great group of moms who are helping to make the event very special for them.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Daughters of Christ\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nicole Duarte, a consecration program coordinator, said, \u201cI hope that all the truly extraordinary young women who completed this consecration will come to understand their role and identity as daughters of Christ.\u201d She said she also hopes the girls will \u201ccrave the attention and approval\u201d of the Lord, instead of that of \u201ca world where they are taught to fight tooth and nail for the attention of society and people who don\u2019t really know them.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Duarte noted she hopes that after the special Mass, \u201cthe young women will conduct their lives with an understanding of the presence of the two within them (Jesus and Mary).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Saturday, June 13, the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, a Mass of Consecration to Jesus…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[5555,90449,128,6300,4840,102320,17114,9,24,63,27742,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-263946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-archdiocese-of-new-york","tag-arquidiocesis-de-nueva-york","tag-bronx","tag-catholic","tag-catholic-church","tag-father-higgins","tag-holy-cross-church","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-st-patricks-cathedral","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}