"We would do well, at this year’s Chrism Mass, to reflect more deeply on the great Sacrament of the Sick and the anointing which flows from the oil blessed tonight."
"In the long history of God’s revelation to His people, the whole history of Judaism and Christianity, God always chooses the most unlikely of witnesses to proclaim to the world the most profound truths."
"Preaching about Easter is difficult. It is no easy task to put words to the sheer immensity of what God has wrought in the darkness of night, a cosmic struggle between life and death, grace and sin, light and darkness..."
Bishop Lopes' homily from the first Chrism Mass for the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, held at St. Luke's at Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C.