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Solemn Choral Evensong in honor of Canonization of Saint John Henry Newman at The Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham in Houston, Texas. 13 October 2019 (Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity). Please note, the video froze during the second lesson. The audio was left running so you could hear the entire lesson, before resetting the stream.

In Response to the Death of Cardinal William Levada. This letter was read at the Cathedral parish on Sunday September 29, 2019.

VATICAN CITY – U.S. Cardinal William J. Levada, former head of the Vatican's doctrinal congregation and retired archbishop of San Francisco and Portland, Oregon, died Sept. 26 in Rome. He was 83.

Like most children born to Mexican-American families, I was baptized in the Catholic Church. And yet, by the time I was 12 years old, I’d left her to become a “born-again” evangelical Protestant. Until my reversion as an adult, my three siblings and I had abandoned the faith of our fathers for more “entertaining” religious experiences as evangelicals.

The 20th season of Chorus Angelorum opened with the presentation of Choral Evensong for the Patronal Feast of Our Lady of Walsingham on Sunday, September 22, 2019 at 4:00 pm, at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham in Houston, Texas. Please note, our camera software froze around the 24 minute mark, so you lose about 2 minutes of the office.

From New Liturgical Movement: On Tuesday, October 15th, a solemn Mass in the Ordinariate Form will take place at the Cathedral Basilica of Ss Peter and Paul in Philadelphia, to celebrate the canonization of Bl. John Henry Newman.

From the National Catholic Register

Most Rev. Steven J. Lopes' homily for Rev. Msgr. Carl Reid's installation as the second Ordinary of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross.

St Mary's Cathedral Sydney, Installation Mass for Rev. Msgr. Carl Reid, PA as the Second Ordinary of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross. The Principal Celebrant is Most Rev. Anthony Fisher OP, Archbishop of Sydney. Principal Concelebrants are Most Rev. Mark Coleridge, Archbishop of Brisbane & President of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, Most Rev. Steven J Lopes, Bishop of the Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter, Rev Msgr. Keith Newton PA, Ordinary of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, and the Bishops of Australia.

Consecration of Saint Mary the Virgin's (Arlington, Texas) new altar by Bishop Lopes on the Memorial of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary 2019. Photos courtesy of Stephen Schmitt https://www.flickr.com/photos/8833068@N08/

Bishop Lopes: Catholics need to experience the real presence of Jesus through worship and fellowship in the beauty of holiness.

Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter Pilgrimage in honor of the 10th Anniversary of Anglicanorum Coetibus. Led by Most Rev. Steven J. Lopes and Ordinariate Clergy Including London, Oxford, Cambridge, Walsingham, Norwich and Rome. May 3-14, 2020.

The Journey to Sainthood | Newman Canonization | Rome, October 13th --- John Henry Newman will be the first English person who has lived since the 17th century officially recognized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. If you want to be present for this historic and blessed moment, here is what you need to know.

The Vatican announces the date of the canonization of Blessed John Henry Newman along with four others on the third Sunday of October 2019.

June 29, 2019 - Ordination to the Sacred Priesthood of Rev. Mr. Robert Chapman Kirk and Rev. Mr. Gregory Blake Tipton. Through the imposition of hands and the invocation of the Holy Spirit by Most Reverend Steven J. Lopes, Bishop of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter. Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles. The Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham, Houston, Texas.

The 150th anniversary of St. Barnabas Church includes something special for the larger Omaha community: Free tours of both the timber-clad, English Herefordshire church and of the Renaissance Revival mansion down the street.

Vigil of Pentecost Whitsun Eve 8 June AD 2019 Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham, Houston, Texas The Vigil of Pentecost, 7:00 P.M. Solemn Vigil Mass celebrated by His Excellency Most Rev. Steven J. Lopes, Bishop of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter.

May 16, 2019 - With praise and thanksgiving to Almighty God, the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter presents the Ordination to the Sacred Order of Deacon of Mr. Armando Alejandro, Mr. Nathan Davis, Mr. Jon Jenkins, and Mr. Keith Way. By His Excellency Most Rev. Steven J. Lopes, Bishop of the Personal Ordinaraite of the Chair of Saint Peter at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham in Houston, Texas.

Solemn Choral Evensong Fourth Sunday of Easter (Good Shepherd Sunday) The Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham Catholic Church and Shrine Houston, Texas

Ordinations of Armando Alejandro, Nathan Davis, Jon Jenkins, and Keith Way