Promo Video • Upcoming FSSP Ordinations

Corpus Christi Watershed · May 24, 2017

EVEN MEN from Our Lady of Guadalupe Seminary will be ordained to the Sacred Priesthood for the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter on Friday (26 May 2017) in Lincoln, Nebraska. As usual, LIVEMASS.NET will bring coverage to those who cannot attend:

One of the newly-ordained priests will offer his First Solemn Mass as part of Sacred Music Symposium 2017, at St. Therese in Alhambra.

NB: The audio soundtrack for this promo video was performed by seminarians at Our Lady of Guadalupe Seminary. ¹

NOTES FROM THIS ARTICLE:

1 Available on iTunes: In Sæcula Sæculorum: Selections of Perennial Chant.

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