Forty children and five adults were confirmed at St James' Church, Spanish Place, last Saturday by Bishop George Stack according to the usus antiquior.Over 500 family and friends joined the choir in singing the Veni Creator Spiritus and other traditional hymns. (During the anointing, the choir sang polyphony and plain chant.) After the confirmations, Bishop Stack conferred Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.
Bishop Stack met the candidates informally in the Lady Chapel before the ceremony and gave an address, speaking of the grace of God.
a glitch in the day was that there was a power cut so the choir, having no light or organ in the choir loft, had to sing from the nave with a piano accompaniment. One of my servers who was present for the occasion said that he thought the Church looked magnificent in candlelight.
4 comments:
Could there be any link between the power cut at St. James' and the fact that Bishop Stack was once known amongst his co-seminarians as the "Prince of Darkness"?
Was there really a power cut, or were the lights simply just switched off? I would wager that "superpriest" had something to do with it!!!
This is really cool.
It's like an Advent Rorate Mass under candlelight.
A foretaste of things to come at Our Lady of the Rosary, Blackfen? Hopefully! Please.
I can only imagine what a spiritually uplifting celebration of the Holy Sacrament of Confirmation that must have been. Lucky St James' Church.
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