Chancery Blessing in Houston - Sunday, Feb. 1

POCSP Chancery nears completion in Houston

This coming week (Feb. 1 - 2) the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter (POCSP) will celebrate the blessing and dedication of its new Chancery adjacent to Our Lady of Walsingham, Houston, the principal church of POCSP.

Msgr Steenson breaks ground for the POCSP Chancery in Houston

Cloister at O.L. Walsingham, Houston TX 

For those who have asked about the new Ordinariate Missal following is an outline of the upcoming conference in Houston which brings us to the final stages of preparation.

Publication is scheduled for later this year.

Chancery Dedication 

February 1-2, 2015

Our Lady of Walsingham Church 

7809 Shadyvilla Lane, Houston, 

Texas 77055

The Chancery of the Ordinariate, 

7730 Westview Drive, Houston, 

Texas 77055

Sunday, Feb. 1, 2015

11:15 am – Mass in the presence of H.E. William Cardinal Levada, homilist.

4:00 pm – Choral Evensong and Dedication of New Chancery.  Reception follows.

Monday, Feb. 2, 2015 

Conference for clergy, clergy wives, liturgists, music directors, etc., in anticipation of the publication of Divine Worship: The Missal.

 9:00 am: Mass

10:00 am:  Welcome.  Msgr. Steven Lopes, “Introducing the New Missal”

11:30 am: Fr. Timothy Perkins, “The Rubrical Directory”

12:30 pm: Lunch

1:30 pm: Msgr. Kevin Irwin, “Ars Celebrandi in the Ordinariate”

2:30 pm: Br. John-Bede Pauly, OSB, “Singing the Minor Propers”

3:30 pm: Q & A with the Presenters

4:15 pm: Adjourn

5:30 pm: Dinner 

7:30 pm: Public lecture by Msgr. Kevin Irwin, Catholic University of America: 

“A Sacramental Church in a Technological World”