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Bishop Steven Lopes to Celebrate Ordinariate Pontifical Mass for Newman Celebration
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August 21, 2021All are welcome to attend a Pontifical Mass in celebration of Saint John Henry Newman (1801-1890): an English theologian and poet whose remarkable journey brought him from Anglican ministry into the Catholic Church as a priest of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri, and eventually as a cardinal.
The liturgy will be celebrated by the Most Reverend Steven J. Lopes, Bishop of the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, which is one of three Roman Catholic dioceses with Anglican patrimony established by the pope. The homily will be preached by the Most Reverend Nelson J. Pérez, Archbishop of Philadelphia.
Bishop Lopes will celebrate Mass according to the Divine Worship missal, the form of the Roman Rite used by the Personal Ordinariates for the Anglican tradition. Divine Worship – The Missal is fully authorized by Rome and promulgated by Pope Francis. It brings the best of the Anglican tradition of worship in the English language from the Book of Common Prayer and other Anglican liturgical books, as well as the Anglo-Catholic ceremonial tradition of the English Missal, into the full life and communion of the Catholic Church.
The Durandus Institute, an apostolate for evangelizing through the beauty of the sacred liturgy in its many forms, is assisting the Ordinariate with a special program of sacred music of the English choral tradition, including works of William Byrd and Edward Elgar, the hymnody of St. John Henry Newman, and Anglican chant psalmody, together with the traditional Roman patrimony of Gregorian chant.
We welcome as a special guest conductor Dr. Kevin M. Clarke, who currently serves as Director of Music for St. Theresa's Catholic Church in Sugar Land, Texas, and comes to us with a wealth of experience in leading music for Anglican churches, as well as the normative use and the ancient use of the Roman Rite.
Mass will be celebrated at the Cathedral Basilica of Philadelphia on Thursday, October 7 at 7pm.
There will also be a public recitation of the Rosary before the start of Mass, in honor of the feast of the day, Our Lady of the Rosary.
For more information and to RSVP, please visit here.
