Catholic ping!
God bless them and watch over them!
I trust the new Bishop is NOT married.
I trust the new Bishop is NOT married!
My daughter attended. She had never been to a Bishop’s Ordination. She also had never been in the Presence of four Cardinals.
She was still ecstatic at the beauty of the Ceremony. Plus, she said since there were visitors from all over the World, the Folks from Houston gave them a taste of Texas culture during the pre & post events, to include horseback riding, barbeque, and boot scooting music. I stress there was no such stuff during the actual ceremony.
I have been to events at Our Lady of Walsingham when it was still a small AU Parish, and even back then, the Parishioners knocked themselves out hospitality wise.
Addressing the priests gathered for his ordination-- just for the U.S.-Canada ordinariate, there are 62 of them, along with six deacons, four candidates for the priesthood or diaconate and one seminarian, in service to 42 parishes and communities-- he noted, "I have met each one of you."
However, I'm not holding my breath for Pope Francis to grant the FSSP, which was established by Pope JP II in 1988, its own bishop.
Priests: 262
243 incarnated
11 incorporated ad annum
4 associated
4 postulants
Deacons: 14
Non-deacons seminarians (including postulants): 145
Not to mention the FFOTI or ICK.
OK, maybe I missed the gist, but what is the significance of this event?
Many thanks for posting! Mrs FE attended, I had to miss out because I was ill - it was spectacular per the photos she took.
I met Bishop Lopes 2 years ago in Rome (at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith), he is a fine man. This ordination is a wonderful validation of the Ordinariate and outreach of the Catholic Church to anglicans: Mrs FE and I swam the Tiber 3 years ago to escape the wayward/now-sanctioned Episcopal Church in which I was raised (although, baptized Catholic before my parents became Episcopalian - that church left us behind with the whole shift to cultural relativism as long ago predicted by Cardinal John Henry Newman).
Our Lady of Walsingham, where we are members now, will be designated a Cathedral as the seat for Bishop Lopes, on Sunday. It will be a very big event too!
My daughter blazed the trail for the family into the Catholic Church, as a convert sponsored by her then-fiance, now husband. They in turn sponsored my wife and I, and also my son and other daughter, and all 3 grandchildren are Catholic. The Ordinariate paved the way for my family, and the installation of Lopes as Bishop completes, we believe, our acceptance and true membership into the universal church.
We love Our Lady of Walsingham, soon-to-be, Cathedral, and really admire how Popes John Paul 2, Benedict, and Francis, have nurtured and supported this outreach. It has changed our lives. Also, the support of Cardinal Meuller in Rome, and Cardinal DiNardo here in Houston, have been essential and much appreciated... what a journey for us, in God’s perfect time. Administrator/Ordinary Monsignor Jeffery Steenson (former Episcopal Bishop) and Father Hough and his dad Father Hough Sr, and Monsignor Larry Gipson (our former Episcopal priest at the largest church of that denomination in Houston) all worked very hard to create a home for us to take our anglican liturgical heritage and conform it and our faith to the Catholic Faith in true communion with Rome. By any measure, their work is a huge accomplishment.