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ORDINATION PHOTOGRAPHY 2025

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Monday 30th June
Reception of the Cassock and Incardinations

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Tuesday 1st July
Tonsures and Minor Orders conferred by Bishop Madega of Mouila, Gabon

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Wednesday 2nd July
Presentation of the Choir garment for future Canons and
Reception of the Cross of St. Francis de Sales for future Deacons

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Wednesday 2nd July
Ordinations to the Diaconate and Subdiaconate
conferred by Bishop Finn, Emeritus of Kansas City, USA

 

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Thursday 3rd July
Ordinations to the Priesthood
conferred by His Eminence Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke

 

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Thursday 3rd July
Te Deum, Dinner and Fireworks

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Friday 4th July
First Masses

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ORDINATION WEEK 2025

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Last week was “Ordination Week” at the Institute’s seminary at Gricigliano in Italy. 

On Tuesday, July 1, the tonsure and minor orders were conferred by Bishop Mathieu Madega Lebouankehan (Bishop of Mouila in Gabon). 

Five deacons and ten subdeacons were ordained on Wednesday, July 2 by Bishop Robert Finn. 

On Thursday, July 3, His Eminence Raymond Cardinal Burke ordained six men to the sacred priesthood, including an Englishman, Canon Joseph McCowen. Canon is familar to those attend Mass in New Brighton and Preston. He joins his brother, Canon Michael McCowen in Christ’s vineyard for Eternity.

(Photo Una Voce Sevilla)

HABEMUS PAPAM

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We have a Pope!

The Sacred College of Cardinals have elected Cardinal Robert Prevost to be the 267th Pope and successor of St Peter. The new Pope will take the name Pope Leo XIV.

Ordained Priest in 1982, he was consecrated Bishop in 2014. Pope Francis created him a Cardinal in 2023. He was Prior General of the Augustinians (OSA) from 2001‍–‍2013 and later Titular Bishop of Sufar (2014‍–‍2015) before appointment in the first instance as Apostolic Administrator of Chiclayo (Peru) (2014‍–‍2015) later becoming the Bishop until 2023.

Upon being given the ‘red hat’ in 2023, he was given the title Cardinal Deacon of Santa Monica (2023‍–‍2025) and was simultanously appointed as Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops and President of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America. Earlier this year, Pope Francis made him Titular Bishop of Albano, a Suburbicarian see of the Diocese of Rome.

Orémus pro Pontífice nostro Leone XIV Let us pray for our Pontiff Leo XIV
Dóminus consérvet eum,
et vivíficet eum,
et beátum fáciat eum in terra,
et non tradat eum in ánimam inimicórum éius.
May the Lord preserve him,
and give him life,
and make him blessed on earth,
and not deliver him into the hands of his enemies. 
(Our Father, Hail Mary) (Pater, Ave)

ABBÉ CHARLES OUTTIER RIP

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Dear friends,

With great sadness, we commend to your prayers the repose of the soul of Charles Outtier, a French seminarian of the Institute of Christ the King in Gricigliano, who was killed on January 15 in a tractor accident on the seminary grounds while he was performing his duties. Charles Outtier was a deacon preparing for priestly ordination this coming July. His unexpected and tragic death has plunged the seminary into mourning.

Deacon Outtier edified the whole community with his joyful demeanour and his fervent devotion to his duties, his studies, and his Catholic faith. He was full of promise for his future priestly ministry. But the good Lord, who alone knows the day and hour, has called him on ahead of us. He was anointed and received the Apostolic Blessing at the moment of his death.

Please pray for Deacon Outtier’s soul, for the superiors of the Institute who must bear the loss of one of their spiritual sons, for all of his dear brothers at seminary, and for his family during their time of unspeakable grief.

Requiescat in pace

Canon Amaury Montjean

PRIVATE AUDIENCE OF THE PRIOR GENERAL AND THE SOVEREIGN PONTIFF

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On the 24th June 2024, the 45th anniversary of his Priestly Ordination by Saint John Paul II, Monsignor Gilles Wach, Prior General of our Institute, was received in private audience by His Holiness Pope Francis, accompanied by Monsignor Rudolf Michael Schmitz, Vicar General of the Institute, and by Canon Louis Valadier, Provincial of France.

This audience was an occasion to thank the Holy Father for his inspiring Apostolic Letter, Totum amoris est, dedicated to Saint Francis de Sales, our Patron Saint. Monseigneur Wach was also able to present all the pastoral work carried out by the priests of the Institute throughout the world in the service of souls. On two occasions, the Pope insisted that we continue to serve the Church according to our own, proper charism, in the spirit of unity and communion which the harmony and balance of the Salesian spirituality allow. The Holy Father also expressed his gratitude for the prayers and for the apostolic and missionary work of the Sister Adorers.

At the end of the meeting, the Holy Father invited our Prior General to visit him again with all the members of the Institute, as well as the Sister Adorers, whom he would be very happy to receive in audience.

TWO NEW PRIESTS ORDAINED

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Always with thanks to God, two new priests for eternity have been ordained at Gricigliano, the Institute seminary near Florence, Italy on the feast of St. Francis de Sales.

His Eminence Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke ordained Canon Morrow and Canon Ringeval las Monday.

Hopefully one or both will visit us soon.

2023 ORDINATION PHOTOGRAPHY

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With due credit to the seminarians of Gricigliano who took these beautiful photographs, we are pleased to present a chronicle of the 2023 Ordinations in Florence.

Presentation of the Cassock and Incardinations

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Minor Orders conferred by His Lordship Bishop Madega, Bishop of Mouila in Gabon

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Major Orders conferred by His Grace Archbishop Cordileone, Archbishop of San Francisco, USA, in the presence of His Eminence Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke

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Te Deum of Thanksgiving celebrated by His Eminence Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke followed by dinner and fireworks

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