News from the Province
On Friday, November 22, Canon Raphael Ueda, Rector of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Oratory in San José, celebrated a Solemn High Mass for the Feast of St. Cecilia and led a prayer for the canonization of Servant of God Father Magin Catalá, O.F.M., at Mission Santa Clara on the Santa Clara University campus. Canon Jean-Marie Moreau, returning for a visit, served as Deacon, and gave the homily. Original "California Mission Mass" music written down by the missionaries for the converted native Americans to sing was also sung by the choir during the Mass.
From Tokyo to Nagasaki, Osaka to Kyoto, travel to holy places sanctified by holy missionaries, like St. Francis Xavier and St. Maximillian Kolbe.
If you are one of the first twenty people to sign-up for this pilgrimage, $200.00 of your tour payment will be given to the rebuilding of the Shrine of Christ the King in Chicago in your name.
On December 1st, the First Sunday of Advent, Saint Patrick Parish and Oratory had welcomed His Grace, the Most Reverend Leonard Blair, Archbishop of Hartford, for the installation of the Reverend Canon Joel Estrada as Pastor.
