Easter...

Holy Week is over. It was again a nice week of liturgies. Holy Thursday I concelebrated with most of my classmates and other student priests at the Shrine on campus. The Mass was celebrated by the Apostolic Nuncio, Archbishop Sambi. It was followed by a very nice dinner that the priests are invited to. Good Friday and the Easter Vigil saw me over at St. John's in McLean, VA. You can always count on good liturgy there. The vigil was done in the Ordinary Form, the canon in Latin. Finally, on Easter Sunday I was asked to help celebrate a Mass in the Extraordinary Form at a brand new parish in Manassas, VA: Holy Trinity. It was a sung Mass and well attended (I'm guessing around 500 people). The church was built only two years ago and was pretty well done. They have a regularly scheduled weekly EF Mass there (one of approximately ten that have popped-up across the Arlington Diocese). After Mass, the Justice and his wife were quite kind in inviting us over for Easter dinner. The lamb was excellent, again. Now only two more papers to go before the semester comes to a close...

St. John, McLean:


Holy Trinity, Manassas: