Keeping vigil with the Lord in Oklahoma — the Seven Churches Visitation, Tulsa style

"It is a beautiful way to spend Holy Thursday evening, where we are in the garden with Jesus."

When Father Jon Fincher returned from seminary in Rome, he wanted to bring a taste of the eternal city back with him to Oklahoma.

Instead of bringing wine tastings and pasta recipes to parish dinners, though, he hoped to spark in his home diocese of Tulsa, Oklahoma the observance a historic tradition without much local traction — St. Philip Neri’s Seven …