Just past 11 months since the news broke – and, with it, every possible reaction under the sun began to erupt – this Sunday afternoon in Chicago brings the transition of Stateside Catholicism's third-largest outpost full circle as Archbishop Blase Cupich receives his Pallium in Holy Name Cathedral.
Given the Pope's desire to return the rite to the local churches – announced last January as a sign of a re-amplified "synodality" in the universal church's governance – today's ceremony marks the first domestic conferral of the metropolitan's band since 1983, after which St John Paul II took the act to himself, placing the woolen symbol of "the fullness of the episcopal authority" on the world's new archbishops every year on the feast of Saints Peter and Paul during a concelebrated liturgy in St Peter's.
While Francis continued the practice of celebrating this year's 29 June with the metropolitans named over the prior 12 months, the pontiff only gave each his pallium – only to be worn within his province – in private following the Mass, to be placed on them at home by their respective papal representative. Accordingly, the second US metropolitan named over the past year, Archbishop John Wester of Santa Fe, will be invested in early October – just after the feast of St Francis of Assisi – in his New Mexico cathedral dedicated to the Poverello.
All that said, below is the Quigley livefeed of the Mass – slated to begin at 2.15pm Central – and, of course, its worship aid... homily, etc. to come.
by Rocco Palmo via Whispers in the Loggia
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