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Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio has proclaimed a Day of Penance and Fasting for Thursday, Oct. 13, two days prior to the Diocese of Brooklyn’s commemoration of the closing of the Special Year of the Eucharist at KeySpan Park in Coney Island.
In a message to the 216 parishes in Brooklyn and Queens, the Bishop has invited pastors and administrators to sponsor a communal penance service for parishioners, with the opportunity for individual Confession.
Given the “intimate relationship” between the sacrament of Penance and the Eucharist, he said, “it is essential that our diocesan observance of the Year of the Eucharist provide a communal opportunity to seek the Lord’s forgiveness for our personal sins, the sins of any abuse against children and any act of irreverence against the Eucharist committed in our midst.”
Bishop DiMarzio said the penance service could be conducted either by a parish or by a cluster of parishes.
Msgr. Francis J. Caggiano, the Vicar for Evangelization and Pastoral Life, who heads a committee organizing the observance at KeySpan Park, said Confession will not be available there on that day.
He noted that the Oct. 13 Day of Penance and Fasting has a coincidental interreligious kinship with Jews and Muslims. Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, the highest holy day of the year, observed with strict fasting, falls on that date, while Ramadan, the Islamic month of fasting, begins Oct. 4.
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