Talk about the New Evangelizaiton! From the Institute of Christ the King:
On November 3, His Excellency, the Most Reverend David L. Ricken, Bishop of Green Bay, Wisconsin, administered the Sacrament of Confirmation in the Extraordinary Form to nearly thirty young adults of Saint Joseph's Oratory, of which Canon Andreas Hellmann is the Rector.
Bishop Ricken graciously welcomed the Institute to beautiful Saint Francis Xavier Cathedral in order to accommodate the several hundred faithful who attended the ceremony.
After the conferral of the Sacrament of Confirmation, Bishop Ricken assisted pontifically at the episcopal throne during a Solemn High Mass offered by Canon Matthew Talarico, the Substitute of the Provincial.
The Institute of Christ the King is profoundly grateful to His Excellency, Bishop Ricken, for his paternal guidance and continual support of its apostolate at Saint Joseph's Oratory and for opening the doors of his historic cathedral to our apostolate. The Institute is also indebted to the rector of Saint Francis Xavier Cathedral, Reverend Father John Girotti, for his gracious assistance.
This state is blessed with some wonderful bishops. There are a few who openly support us in devotion to traditional liturgy. Even the others who do not openly support it at least are not pushing us out.
5 comments:
just wondering...why the blue?
It's the choir dress of the Institute of Christ the King. It's only officially bestowed upon members, but the altar servers are also allowed to wear it. From the Institute's website:
"In 2006, the Cardinal Archbishop of Florence, responsible for the overview of the Institute's life, bestowed upon our priests and oblates their specific choir dress. The choir dress consists of a rochet, a mozzetta, the cross of St. Francis de Sales on a blue and white ribbon, and a biretta with a blue pom-pom. The superiors have a blue mozetta, the priests have a black mozetta with blue piping, and the oblates wear the cross and ribbon on the surplice. The blue stands for our complete dedication to the Blessed Mother and is traditionally the color shown on St. Francis de Sales in most paintings of him. The choir dress expresses the strong unity, spiritually, and identity of the Institute and adds solemnity to the liturgy."
I get the idea behind the blue, but I wish they would sometimes forgo it and just stick with the traditional black.
Cardinal Burke also uses blue cassocks for his servers at the Guadalupe Shrine in La Crosse.
Good job - great cassocks for the altar boys
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