If you're ever down on Center Street in downtown Manhattan,

Check out St. Andrews Roman Catholic Church

It's a beautiful testament to classic Church architecture. I had the opportunity to pray a decade of the rosary there today. I had just finished lunch, and there it was. I went in. Prayed for Mom and the family; knelt in the back. A small group had gathered for the Rosary. The Blessed Sacrament in the Monstronse greeted us all from the altar. I soon joined the chorus of Rosary. What an experience. To kneel in a high-vaulted church, at prayer as a stranger among stranger, and yet feel totally at home with them. That is the power of our Tradition: When we unite in prayer to our Savior, we become Family, for we become His Body realized. He has told us, "When two or more are gathered in my name, there I am in their midst." Though we are in his midst ontologically by virtue of our baptism and his passion, we're with him even more fully, in the experience of the moment, when we pray in his name. Make no mistake, when we pray the rosary, we pray to Christ. We pray to him through the intersession of his Blessed Mother, but he is the focus of our prayer. All the mysteries reveal his life, after all. But I digress.

Check out St. Andrews, if you're ever in the area. You won't regret it!