As Rorate Caeli reports, our good friend, Archbishop Joseph Augustine DiNoia, O.P, will be celebrating a Pontifical Solemn High Mass in the Extraordinary Form at the High Altar of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, DC, on Saturday April 9, 2011. His Excellency is Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, second only to the Prefect, His Eminence Cardinal Antonio Cañizares Llovera (who personally suggested His Excellency for this Mass).
The Mass will celebrate the 6th anniversary of the inauguration of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, which is April 24, 2011 (Easter Sunday).
(We first made the acquaintance of Fr. DiNoia long before he was elevated to his present position, when he was invited on two separate occasions to speak at the Aquinas-Luther Conference at Lenoir-Rhyune University in NC. Subsequently, I visited Fr. DiNoia in Washington, DC, together with one of my sons who was interested in pursuing graduate studies in patristics, and he recommended CUA over Notre Dame, where he had also been accepted with a full ride. After my son's graduate studies at CUA, he assisted in the planning and implimentation of the Apostolic Visitation of U.S. seminaries in 2005, working out of the USCCB offices adjacent to the Dominican House of Studies, where Fr. DiNoia lived. Small world.)
Great news.
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