The writing-desk of St. Therese is to make one more stop in northern New Jersey, sponsored by the Byzantine Eparchy of Passaic. This Monday, October 21, 2013, the writing-desk will be venerated at St. Michael Cathedral Chapel, 415 Lackawanna Avenue, Woodland Park, New Jersey.

The schedule for this "encounter with St. Therese" is:

11:00 a.m.  Prayer service

Followed by the opportunity to pray in the presence of the writing-desk until 2:00 p.m.

According to the schedule posted by the Pontifical Mission Societies, this is the last public event in the Northeast.  Only one more public event remains: on Thursday, October 24, in Venice, Florida.

Please read this story of a healing in Kansas City after prayers before the writing-desk of St. Therese of Lisieux, written by Leslie Knop, Executive Director for the Office of Stewardship and Development of the Archdiocese of Kansas City, as a guest post for EVANGELIZED KANSAS..  Leslie--well, I won't spoil her story.

The Catholic News Service published a second article about the writing-desk of St. Therese at the National Shrine of the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception on October 4, 2013.

Photo credit: Pontifical Mission Societies in the United States

At least 500 people venerated the writing-desk of St. Therese after the 5:15 p.m. Mass in the crypt of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. on October 3, 2013.

• Read the Catholic News Service Story.

• See the photo album of the Pontifical Mission Societies from the evening event.

• See a short story and photo album of the veneration of the writing-desk at the Children's International Eucharistic Holy Hour at the Basilica on Friday, October 4.

Tomorrow the desk returns to the Discalced Carmelite nuns, Therese's own order, at their monastery in St. Louis.

The writing-desk of St. Therese of Lisieux will be oresent at the 8th Annual Orange County Catholic Prayer Breakfast on the morning of Wednesday, September 18, 2013 at the Future Christ Cathedral, 12141 Lewis Street, Garden Grove, CA  92840.  More than a thousand guests are expected at the breakfast.

After that, the writing-desk will be exposed for public veneration at the Future Christ Cathedral that same day, Wednesday, September 18, from 12 noon through 10 p.m. that night, and again from 6:00 a.m. through 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, September 18.  Before making plans to come and pray in the presence of the writing-desk, please be sure to consult this detailed brochure with hours, events, liturgies, and places.