Sunday 21 June 2015

Priestly Ordinations 2015 : 3

Each year, the Saint Bede Studio has the privilege of preparing sacred vestments for priestly Ordinands. Happily, this year has been no exception.

This post concerns Father Thomas McKenzie of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis (USA), who was ordained to the Sacred Priesthood in the Cathedral Church of Saint Paul, Minnesota on 30th May along with seven other candidates.

Father McKenzie commissioned vestments from the Studio in the Saint Giles style. The chasuble (shewn adjacent), was sewn from an ivory and straw-coloured ecclesiastical brocade and was ornamented with an orphrey in green, gold and red : a unique design of the Saint Bede Studio, based on the work of AWN Pugin. The vestments were lined in straw-gold taffeta.

Please pray for Father McKenzie and for all newly-ordained priests.


Father McKenzie during the celebration of his First Holy Mass
in the Cathedral of Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Image: dammelphoto.com


Father McKenzie during the celebration of his First Holy Mass
in the Cathedral of Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Image: dammelphoto.com


Magnificent apse of the Cathedral of Saint Paul Minnesota.
Note the splendid civory or baldacchino surmounting the altar.



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