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Fourth Sunday of Lent
22 March 2009
Dear Friends in Christ,
Several items for your attention:
1. At 2 pm this Wednesday 25 March (the Solemnity of the Annunciation) in the Cathedral Church of St. John the Baptist, our Bishop-elect will be ordained and installed as the Thirteenth Bishop of Charleston. The Most Reverend Robert E. Guglielmone will be ordained by our Metropolitan Archbishop, the Most Reverend Wilton Gregory of Atlanta, with Bishop Robert Baker of Birmingham and Bishop William Murphy of Rockville Centre serving as principal co-consecrators. Because of space limitations, only invited guests can personally attend the ordination Mass, but it will be streamed live by video at www.catholic-doc.org and by audio at www.catholicradiosc.com. Please pray for our new Father in God, that he may be strengthened by grace for the arduous labors before him. Also, because of the ordination in Charleston, we will not have Mass or the Holy Hour here at St. Mary’s on Wednesday 25 March. 2. On Thursday 2 April at 6.30 pm, we will have a presentation on “The Witness of the English Martyrs — Lessons for Our Times” given by Father Benedict Kiely, pastor of Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church in Stowe, Vermont and Director of Continuing Education for Priests in the Diocese of Burlington. During the 16th and 17th centuries in England, scores of Catholics were executed for resisting the Protestant Reformation forced by the monarchy and insisting on their right to remain faithful Catholics while being loyal Britons. In 1970, Pope Paul VI canonized forty of these martyrs, and in 1987, Pope John Paul the Great beatified a further eighty-five of them. These 125 martyrs joined the two most famous victims of the English Reformation: Thomas More, the Chancellor of England, and John Cardinal Fisher, the Bishop of Rochester and Chancellor of Cambridge University, both of whom were martyred in 1535 and canonized in 1935. The lives of these courageous martyrs can speak to us today of the possibility of bearing witness to the Lord Jesus and His Gospel by living as faithful Catholics in the midst of a hostile culture, and all are invited to join us in McGrady Hall at 6.30 pm on Thursday 2 April to hear Father Kiely’s talk on the English Martyrs. Father Keily, though now working in America, was born in England and was ordained to the priesthood in 1994 in the Church of St. Thomas of Canterbury — the Catholic Church which lies in the shadow of Canterbury Cathedral. 3. Please remember to join us for Vespers at 4 pm on each Sunday of Lent and for the Way of the Cross at 6 pm each Friday of Lent. Also, please see inside this bulletin for the complete schedule of liturgies for Holy Week. On Palm Sunday we keep our normal Mass schedule, but on each day of the Paschal Triduum the schedule is different, so please take note of the time of each liturgy.Father Newman