“The world needs Christ more than ever and his mother is the example of how we can carry him to a waiting world,” Archbishop Cordileone said in his homily at the Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral. The Mass was followed by short period of adoration before the Blessed Sacrament and then the archbishop led the procession along some of the city’s busiest thoroughfares to United Nations Plaza.
“”Mahitaji ya dunia Kristo zaidi kuliko hapo na mama yake ni mfano wa jinsi tunaweza kumchukua kwa dunia kusubiri,”” Askofu Mkuu Cordileone alisema katika hotuba yake katika Misa katika Kanisa Kuu St Mary. Misa ilifuatiwa na kipindi kifupi cha kuabudu mbele ya Sakramenti na kisha askofu mkuu aliongoza maandamano pamoja baadhi ya mji wa thoroughfares busiest na Umoja wa Mataifa Plaza.