EF in the UP

Today, Bishop Sample celebrated a Solemn Low Mass, the first time the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite has been celebrated publicly in the Cathedral since the introduction of the Novus Ordo. He hopes to celebrate the Extraordinary Form Mass approximately once a month on Sundays. I (and hopefully other priests) will be celebrating it on the other Sundays.

Hopefully, in time, we shall be able to provide Missa Cantata, Solemn High Mass and even Pontifical High Mass.

Young servers seem very interested in the Mass and a very good number were on hand today. The priests who acted as Chaplains (servers) to the Bishop were Father Ronald Timock, Pastor of St Anthony's, Gwinn, as First Chaplain and me as Second Chaplain.

From Caritas in Veritate
HT Father Z

You may know, His Excellency is also on the board at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe.  Some speculated he might be on his way to La Crosse in our last vacancy.  It would seem to me with his friendship with Cardinal Burke that his star is rising.  He was at one point I think the youngest bishop in the US(he just turned 50).  I was thinking Detroit but the current Archbishop Vigneron is only 62 and that would be 13 years until he is retirement age.  Chicago???  Cardinal George is retirement age in 2012....