In 2018, Edel Lukens and her husband, a convert, found a new spiritual home in the Bridgeport area at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, a parish in the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter. After requesting that Fr. Ousley allow their local Legion of Mary Praesidium, based in Norristown, to run a Patricians group at the parish, the priest enthusiastically agreed, serving as its spiritual director (a monthly discussion group meant to get Catholics comfortable talking about their faith).
Divine Worship: Daily Office has already sold out of the North American edition’s first print run, and a second print run is already in the works to meet the high pre-order demand before the Office is publicly listed for sale by Newman House Press. The initial response alone shows the Ordinariate’s parish communities and members have signaled a strong resonance with Bishop Steven Lopes’s vision that the Daily Offices should be a “a regular feature of Ordinariate life.”
Vatican City, Dec 8, 2020 / 04:08 am MT (CNA).- Pope Francis announced a Year of St. Joseph Tuesday in honor of the 150th anniversary of the saint’s proclamation as patron of the Universal Church.