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Votive Mass of the Holy Spirit in commemoration of the Tenth Anniversary of the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus. 3 November AD 2019 at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham, Houston, Texas. Be sure to check out the 1:34:42 mark for something you won’t see at every Mass. Please note, during the second reading, we lost video for a moment, but you still get the audio of the reading. Celebrant: Most Rev. Steven Lopes; Concelebrants: Very Rev. Timothy Perkins, Very Rev. Charles Hough IV, and Rev. Richard Kramer; Deacon of the Mass: Rev. Mr. Mark Stockstill.

The 2020 Ordo for the Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter is now available from Amazon for $3.95.

The special indulgence from the Vatican marks the Ordinariate’s jubilee year celebrating 10 years of its founding by Benedict XVI and extends to pilgrims to the Walsingham shrine in Houston.

There was more than a little nervous energy in the chancery conference room on a Wednesday morning in late June. Nine novice preachers were about to break into small groups to deliver a funeral homily for which they were given only one evening to prepare. These nine men are candidates for the permanent diaconate for the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter and were gathered in Houston for the annual diaconate formation intensive, a full week of classes, practica and fellowship in Christ.

Bishop Steven Lopes, bishop of the North American Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter, will be one of our speakers at the upcoming 2019 Conference on the Anglican Tradition in the Catholic Church, being held in Toronto on November 15th & 16th.