News from the Province
The Mass and music of Mission Days returned to Mission Santa Clara on the evening before Thanksgiving, November 21, 2018, when Canon Ueda, chaplain of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Oratory in San José, celebrated a sung High Mass at the Mission Santa Clara's otherwise mostly-unused main altar for the first time in anyone’s memory. The music sung that night was the same music taught by the friars to the converted native Americans at the California Missions.
The annual pilgrimage to Ordinations of the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest in Florence, Italy, will take place from June 30 to July8, 2019.
Canon William Avis will be leading a pilgrimage to the Holy Land from April 22 to May 8, 2019. Pilgrims will visit sites connected to Jesus’ life, from his childhood to his public ministry.
On Saturday November 17, 2018, Archbishop Robert J. Carlson confirmed thirty-four teenagers and adults at St. Francis de Sales Oratory in St. Louis, Missouri.
