BALTIMORE – This is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad.
It's a tradition dating to 1800 – when Leonard Neale, the second archbishop of this Premier See, was consecrated by John Carroll alone – and today brings the latest chapter with the ordination of two new auxiliary bishops: Adam Parker, 45, and Mark Brennan, 68.
The dual appointments awaited for over two years, each of the Pope's picks brings a new element to the life of this storied local church: until now the pastor of one of suburban Washington's largest and most diverse parishes, Brennan arrives as the first prelate to be named for a newly emergent Hispanic community here... while Parker – the beloved native son and current vicar-general of the 600,000-member archdiocese – augurs a new generation for the American hierarchy: the first Latin-church bishop born in the 1970s.
The Mass to begin at 2pm Eastern, here's your worship aid... and the livefeed:
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by Rocco Palmo via Whispers in the Loggia
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