The signs are brewing left and right. Here is very recent comminication I received:
Gailon, I picked this up from a news wire, Michael....
The Rev. Peter Kihm, pastor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in the City of Poughkeepsie, said his sermon today will talk about what the papacy represents.
"We have to remind them what the pope means to the church, as the visible sign of unity of us all," he said.
The Rev. Joseph LaMorte, pastor of Holy Trinity Church in the City of Poughkeepsie, is hopeful the impact of the papal visit will draw some stray sheep back to the fold.
"If somebody is lapsed, maybe not completely identifying with the Catholic Church, maybe this will stimulate something, maybe draw them back," he said. "The visit of the pope to our country and our city certainly is a boon and I think it does have some potential to bring some people back in, to get them to look seriously again about the need for religion, the church, the holiness of something like Sunday, for example. It's not a regular day. It's the Lord's Day."