Description: Holy Family Parish & Our Lady of Good Voyage Parish | United in Prayer, Fellowship & Service | Massachusetts USA
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By Cardinal Richard Cushing
In this historic port of Gloucester, we honor and bless those who go down to the sea in ships. To those brave men whose daily life makes frequent access to the church impossible, the Church most gladly comes, with sacred and age-old ritual to pronounce a benediction upon their persons and their property, and upon the fruits of their toil. The Church’s ancient blessing is full of beauty and consoling promise. She asks Almighty God to watch over a ship even as he protected the Ark of Noah, to extend to the sa