April 6, 2018 at 1:53 p.m.
PRESENTATION
Visit from replica of Shroud of Turin
The parish's organist, Catherine Van Mater, arranged the presentation after seeing the speaker at a nearby Pennsylvania parish.
"It was just so moving and so informative," Mrs. Van Mater said. "Anyone who attends this listens to what he says and can relate it to their life. It's going to be a wonderful journey for Lent. The people should leave very enlightened."
Participants may venerate the cloth after the two-hour talk. The presenter, Donald Nohs, is a Catholic from the Diocese of Rockville Centre (Long Island) and director of the Confraternity of the Passion International, a pious society affiliated with the Passionist Order. He is also president of the Society of the Holy Face of Jesus.
For 50 years, Mr. Nohs has studied the Shroud of Turin, which contains what looks like a photo-negative image of a man with wounds similar to those of the crucified Christ, as described in the Gospels.
The cloth can be confirmed to date back to at least the 14th century, when it was placed in a church in France. It is alleged to have been brought to Europe from the Holy Land even earlier, during the Crusades.
Mr. Nohs has spoken about the history of the cloth before hundreds of audiences all over the U.S. and Canada and as far as the U.K., Jerusalem and South Korea. He brings with him a replica of the shroud and replicas of items that would have been used in crucifixions.
"What you see in Turin, I have," Mr. Nohs told The Evangelist.
In his presentations, the expert explains why he believes the Shroud of Turin is the burial cloth of Jesus and the significance of its markings. He also links it to the Gospels, the Catholic liturgy and the Eucharist.
In the Acts of the Apostles, he points out, Jesus gave the Apostles "many proofs" - which could have included the shroud - that He was still alive in the 40 days after His suffering.
Mr. Nohs also uses the shroud to describe Jesus' passion to audiences, rattling off the more than 175 scourge marks shown on the cloth and explaining what kind of instruments would have inflicted them.
That shows "exactly how He suffered," Mr. Nohs said. It "boils down to the love that God has for us to go through this for our redemption."
Mr. Nohs believes the shroud was used as the tablecloth at the Last Supper. He called the Shroud of Turin the inspiration for cloths that cover the altar and clean the chalice after the Eucharist.
"The image on that cloth is not an accidental byproduct of the resurrection," Mr. Nohs opined.
The presenter is also a chairman of the Suffolk County Conservative Party. Most of the expenses involved in his presentations come from his own pocket: "I use my vacation time and my sick days for Jesus," he told The Evangelist.[[In-content Ad]]
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