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In Rome this morning Bishop Lopes participated in an EWTN special segment honoring Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. The broadcast will air in the US and Canada today at 4:30 PM Eastern Time, 3:30 PM Central Time and again at 9:00 PM Central Time.

In this third week of Respect Life Month, the Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter and the National Committee for a Human Life Amendment share with you this video from Bishop Lopes.

At the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops general assembly today Bishop Lopes was elected to serve as chairman-elect of the USCCB Committee on Divine Worship.

On October 7, 2021, Bishop Lopes will celebrate a Pontifical Mass at the Cathedral Basilica of Philadelphia with Most Reverend Nelson J. Pérez, Archbishop of Philadelphia, homilist, celebrating St. John Henry Newman. All are welcome to attend.

Each year the faithful gather at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., to pray for our country. This year, Bishop Lopes will deliver the keynote address. Tomorrow morning EWTN will broadcast the Prayer Breakfast live beginning at 7:00 a.m. Eastern Time.

With sadness that is lightened by our hope in the resurrection, we wish to inform you that Father John Cornelius, a retired priest of the Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter, died September 8, 2021. The funeral Mass will take place on Monday, September 13, 2021, at 11:00 a.m. at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Cleburne, TX. Father Cornelius was ordained a Catholic priest for the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter in January of 2013 and assigned as Administrator of Saint Alban’s, Rochester, New York. He retired in December of 2014. He served in ordained ministry for the Episcopal Church from 1990 until his retirement in 2010 while rector of the Episcopal parish in Warrensburg, New York. His ministry assignments as an Episcopalian included parishes in Florida, New York, Texas, and Rhode Island. He is survived by his wife of nearly 42 years, Sharyl, three daughters, Virginia, Sarah, and Rebecca, and two grandchildren. Please remember his family and all who mourn in your prayers.

This week in Texas a law protecting the unborn from abortion, once a heartbeat is detected, went into effect. For the first time since Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court has allowed a prolife law to remain while litigation proceeds in lower courts. We celebrate every life saved by this legislation. Read the full statement.

Msgr. Laurence Gipson's funeral Mass will be livestreamed on the Facebook page of Saint Ignatius Mobile on 4 August A.D. 2021 at 11:00 AM CDT. https://www.facebook.com/St.Ignatiuschurchmobile

With sadness that is lightened by our hope in the resurrection, we wish to inform you that Monsignor Laurence Gipson, a priest of the Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter, died on 29 July A.D. 2021. The Funeral Mass will be held on 4 August A.D. 2021 at 9:30am at St. Ignatius Catholic Church in Mobile, Alabama.

Bishop Steven J. Lopes, the bishop of the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, issued a video message to the faithful and clergy in advance of the Day of Pentecost and Whitsun Week, calling on them like the early Church to “burst out of the upper room” with renewed faith and discipleship after the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic.

On May 10 at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham, Bishop Steven Lopes of the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter conferred papal honors in the name of Pope Francis on Msgr. Timothy Perkins, the ordinariate’s vicar general, that name him a Chaplain of His Holiness and grant him the title “monsignor.”

The Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter is a Catholic Diocese that encompasses the United States and Canada. The Ordinariate exists for those who are and who will be coming into full communion with the Catholic Church. Through the reverence and beauty of our worship, study of sacred Scripture and charity for those in need, we desire to share the joy of being Roman Catholic! With respect and gratitude for the Anglican heritage that nourished us, we seek to build bridges with all our brothers and sisters who are drawn to the Church, so that we might build up the one Body of Christ.

On March 16, 2021, a Votive Mass of the Five Holy Wounds in the Ordinariate Form of the Roman Rite, was celebrated at Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans, Louisiana. Father Aaron Williams of the Diocese of Jackson, Mississippi, was the celebrant. Father Sal Istre of the Diocese of Lafayette, Louisiana, served as the deacon. It was my privilege, as a Transitional Deacon of the Diocese of Alexandria, Louisiana, to serve as subdeacon for this solemn occasion.

The Anglicanorum Coetibus Society’s latest podcast features Msgr. Timothy Perkins, whom Pope Francis recently named Chaplain of His Holiness, and played a key role in the development of the North American edition of Divine Worship: Daily Office.

Newman House Press is once again taking pre-orders for the second printing of Divine Worship: Daily Office, the form of the divine office for North America’s Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, as the ACS can now confirm.

(Houston, Texas) It is my great pleasure to share with you the news that our Holy Father Pope Francis, has bestowed an honor on one of our priests, Father Timothy P. Perkins, naming him a Chaplain of His Holiness with the title of Monsignor!

This year’s national March for Life in Washington, D.C. is going virtual, and as a result the annual Ordinariate Mass before the March is now cancelled for 2021. Instead, Catholics in the Ordinariate are being invited to join virtually a Sanctity of Life Mass on Jan. 22nd instead, the 48th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion in the U.S.

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.”

Twelfth Sunday After Trinity A.D. 2020 in the Ordinariate Form of the Roman Rite from St. Mary the Virgin Catholic Church in Arlington, Texas.