Holy Rosary, our sponsoring parish, is holding their festival this weekend and the AU folk are helping out in as many ways as is possible – hanging lights, preparing/serving food, providing theatrical entertainments…
Here’s a link to the Facebook page for the event.
Please, plan to join us…
Tuesday, June 4, 2013, 7pm at Holy Rosary parish, St. Joseph of Arimathea Anglican Use Society will joyfully celebrate the occasion of the Sacrament of Confirmation. We will be joined by Bishop Christopher Coyne, Auxiliary bishop in the Indianapolis Archdiocese, who will be conferring the sacrament on several of our members. Mass will also be celebrated.
Link to the service bulletin.
Link to the anthem.
**UPDATE**
We had a wonderful evening! Bishop Coyne celebrated the Anglican Use Mass for the first time ever and we are very grateful to him for his support of our community. Here are some pictures.
The choir of St. Joseph of Arimathea AU Society will be singing at Ss. Peter and Paul Cathedral’s Pentecost concert. Our program includes:
Here’s the notice on the Archdiocesan website:
The Multicultural Ministry Office and Commission will hold its annual Pentecost Choir Concert on Sunday, May 19, at SS. Peter & Paul Cathedral from 2:00 until 4:00 pm. It is very appropriate that on this day when the Church celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit that enabled people from various nations to hear and understand the marvels of God, we come together to hear the marvels of God sung in the various languages of people throughout the Archdiocese of Indianapolis. This year we will hear from: the African Catholic Ministry Choir, the Vietnamese Apostolate Choir, the Holy Rosary Church Choir (singing in English, Italian and Latin) [that's us!], the Filipino Choir, and the Latino Choir from St. Anthony Church. Admission to the concert is free. Link
We hope to see you there.
*UPDATE*
Our performance was a great success! We had a very warm welcome and lots of applause from the nearly 200 people in attendance. Here are a few photos of the occasion – thanks Joe!
Monsignor Jeffrey Steenson is a Catholic priest and former bishop in the Anglican Church. In 2012 Benedict XVI appointed him to lead the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, the new structure in North America by which former Anglicans can enter the Catholic Church while preserving many of their traditions.
As a married man, Msgr. Steenson cannot be ordained a bishop and thus depends on Catholic bishops to ordain priests for the Anglican ordinariate.
In March he was at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Anchorage where he delivered the homily at Father Ken Bolin’s ordination to the priesthood. Anchorage Archbishop Roger Schwietz ordained Father Bolin for the Anglican ordinariate.
After the liturgy, Msgr. Steenson spoke with the Catholic Anchor.
Could you comment on the Anglican ordinariate, how you’ve seen it develop, and how you think it will continue with the next papacy?
Msgr. Steenson: Our time with Pope Benedict was way too short! He created the ordinariate for the U.S. and Canada just last January 1. But he had been involved with this project when he was Cardinal Ratzinger. He’s so important to this.
Our choir will also be singing Igor Stravinsky’s “Ave Maria.”
Easter 2013
Dear People of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter,
A blessed and joyous Easter to you all!
We have just passed through a Lent in so many ways like none other. We began this Lent trying to absorb the unsettling announcement of the retirement of Pope Benedict XVI, who more than anyone else has made our journey to full communion possible. And we concluded Lent by welcoming Pope Francis, whose beginning days have been so full of surprises. In many ways, we are in a different place than when we started.
But in a more important sense, we have come full circle. Ours is a living tradition, and the Pope has the ministry of interpreting that tradition authoritatively so that it might continue to be heard throughout the world today. The two Popes of Lent 2013 are a study in contrasts, gifted in different ways, but they serve the same Gospel. It is a wonderful illustration of how the Petrine office is exercised; it is an instrument of the Holy Spirit: to renew the Church’s mission and to configure her in the image of Christ.
I love the way St. Irenaeus of Lyon wrote of how the Tradition is perpetually revivified in the Church. The Faith that is received and handed will, by the Spirit of God, renew the Church and make it young, “as if some precious deposit in an excellent vessel causes the vessel itself containing it to renew its youth also” (3.28.1).
There is a resurrection theme to be discerned in this. Earthly communities and societies get old and tired and are replaced by something new and different. But the Church is renewed and recovers her youthfulness, because she participates in the life of the blessed Trinity.
The people of the Ordinariate should understand this principle because we have experienced it in the renewal of our communities and in our personal faith, as we have journeyed deeper to the source of the Church’s life, to the streams of living water. In the words of Jeremiah 2:13, we have learned of the futility of digging “broken cisterns that cannot hold water.”
May our Risen Lord bless our life together and keep us always faithful to Him and to His Church!
- Msgr. Jeffrey Steenson
ANDREA TORNIELLI
ROME
New scientific experiments carried out at the University of Padua have apparently confirmed that the Shroud Turin can be dated back to the 1stcentury AD. This makes its compatible with the tradition which claims that the cloth with the image of the crucified man imprinted on it is the very one Jesus’ body was wrapped in when he was taken off the cross. The news will be published in a book by Giulio Fanti, professor of mechanical and thermal measurement at the University of Padua’s Engineering Faculty, and journalist Saverio Gaeta, out tomorrow. “Il Mistero della Sindone” (The Mystery of the Shroud) is edited by Rizzoli (240 pp, 18 Euro).
Read it all here
“It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto thy Name, O most Highest; To tell of thy loving-kindness early in the morning, and of thy truth in the night season.” - Psalm xcii
O GOD, the pastor and ruler of all the faithful, mercifully look upon thy servant Francis, whom thou hast been pleased to set as pastor over thy Church : grant him, we beseech thee, to be in word and conversation a wholesome example to the people committed to his charge; that he with them may attain unto everlasting life. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Dear Brothers and Sisters in the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter,
We all have a special connection to Pope Benedict XVI, and with you I lifted up my heart as the Holy Father took off from St. Peter’s this afternoon at 5 p.m. Rome time (Feb. 28). I have been in Rome for a series of long-scheduled meetings, and I was in the Square as the Pope departed today. The Square was nearly full, and much of the time you could almost have heard a pin drop.
But it is a matter of firm faith that all will be well. The Pope established us with an apostolic constitution to give us stability and permanence. And the reception that I have received from the several congregations I have visited has been warm and encouraging. It has also been a joy to be with members of the U.K. Ordinariate also. Msgr. Newton and I sat together at the General Audience yesterday, and we were able to celebrate the Eucharist this morning with the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in St. Peter’s this morning.
Our mission is to bring many souls to full communion in the Catholic Church. That is the message I have consistently been given. Our commission is simply the Great Commission.
May God bless you all!
Msgr. Jeffrey Steenson
