All Good Things with Archbishop Hicks: November 3, 2026

Well, it's what I love about particularly this time of year with apologies to our listeners and viewers from around the country, around North America.

This is your first, I think, certainly as Archbishop of New York, your first Marathon Sunday.

And I love what that event does to New York City.

For me, it is a great image of the community of saints that are cheering us on.

We talk about a cloud of witnesses that we see in Scripture and in our prayers for the day, a cloud of witnesses that is urging us on as we run our race.

And that's One day of the year where New Yorkers put everything else aside, all the cynicism and everything else, and they're just, they're pro cheering on.

They're pro everybody

else.

That's a creative metaphor, just to look at it that way.

And I don't know if you know this, but I actually went to the marathon this year.

So it was a beautiful day.

We had a great temperature and weather.

I celebrated my masses and all of that.

And then I have a cousin who is running in the marathon.

So I was at mile marker 24 with so many other people cheering the runners on.

And you can't help but getting caught up in the spirit and the goodness of it.

We're going to talk about this subject a little bit more coming up.

But there is a connection between faith and sports and running a race and persevering and keep on going there are so many connections that you can make between that and then when you experience it in new york city where so many people gather in a spirit of Brother and sisterhood of a family coming together and everyone just rooting each other on.

Really, really nice.

And strangers.

Strangers, too.

Which

is great because I was there rooting on somebody that I knew.

But I've only known somebody who's run the marathon for the last couple of years.

And I've been going pretty much every year since I've lived here because I like that aspect of it.

Well, it's what I love about particularly this time of year with apologies to our listeners and viewers from around the country, around North America.

This is your first, I think, certainly as Archbishop of New York, your first Marathon Sunday.

And I love what that event does to New York City.

For me, it is a great image of the community of saints that are cheering us on.

We talk about a cloud of witnesses that we see in Scripture and in our prayers for the day, a cloud of witnesses that is urging us on as we run our race.

And that's One day of the year where New Yorkers put everything else aside, all the cynicism and everything else, and they're just, they're pro cheering on.

They're pro everybody

else.

That's a creative metaphor, just to look at it that way.

And I don't know if you know this, but I actually went to the marathon this year.

So it was a beautiful day.

We had a great temperature and weather.

I celebrated my masses and all of that.

And then I have a cousin who is running in the marathon.

So I was at mile marker 24 with so many other people cheering the runners on.

And you can't help but getting caught up in the spirit and the goodness of it.

We're going to talk about this subject a little bit more coming up.

But there is a connection between faith and sports and running a race and persevering and keep on going there are so many connections that you can make between that and then when you experience it in new york city where so many people gather in a spirit of Brother and sisterhood of a family coming together and everyone just rooting each other on.

Really, really nice.

And strangers.

Strangers, too.

Which

is great because I was there rooting on somebody that I knew.

But I've only known somebody who's run the marathon for the last couple of years.

And I've been going pretty much every year since I've lived here because I like that aspect of it.