On 23 January, His Excellency Allen Vigneron, Bishop of Oakland, California, will preach at a Solemn High Mass in the extraordinary form at St. Margaret Mary Church, Oakland
The Mas is part of a novena in preparation for the feast of St. Francis de Sales.
The announcement is here.
This is great news. Oakland and Sacramento have been blessed with good bishops. The Fresno diocese in California has two Latin Mass communities and I don’t think Bishop John Steinbock has ever attended one Mass in the extraordinary form.It is my understanding that bishop Steinbock recently declined an offer from the Fraternity of St. Peter for a priest to be assigned in Fresno, at the same time the push is on to train laymen, mostly laywomen to run parishes. Five years or less to go for a new bishop in Fresno….Oremus
Bishop Vigneron is awesome.
The bulletin you linked to also lists two Dominican priests from the Dominican School of Philosophy & Theology in Berkeley who will be preaching there as well.
Yes, as Lawrence King notes, two of my brothers of the Western Dominican Province will also be preaching the novena.
The V. Rev. Fr. Richard Aquinas Schenk, O.P., S.T.M., will preach on St. Francis de Sales\’ theology of the Eucharist. And the Rev. Fr. Fr. Anselm Ramelow, O.P., will preach on his theology of the Trinity.
Ave Maria , a faithful Bishop . We have a TLM every Sunday at 4pm at Saint Mary’s in vacaville . Thanks be to God .