Archbishop Conti celebrates first feast-day Mass of St Josemaría

On the evening of Thursday June 26, at St Andrew's Metropolitan Cathedral in Glasgow, Archbishop Mario Conti celebrated the first ever feast day Mass of the newly canonised Saint Josemaria Escriva.

Archbishop Conti delivering his homily.

Archbishop Conti was joined by the vicar general of the Archdiocese, Mgr John Gilmartin and around 20 priests. Several hundred people from all over Scotland were present at the Mass and at a reception afterwards in the Archdiocesan Eyre Hall.

For the text of the archbishop’s homily see link at right.

There were also Masses in Manchester and London. The Regional Vicar of Opus Dei in Great Britain, Mgr Nicholas Morrish, was the main celebrant at St George’s Cathedral, Southwark (South London), where there were about 700 people in the congregation.

The homily was delivered by Fr Gerard Sheehan (for the text see link at right).

View of Salford Cathedral, where the celebrant was Mgr Michael Quinlan.

Among the other places where Masses were celebrated for the occasion were Paris (Cardinal Lustiger), Milan (Cardinal Tettamanzi), New York (Cardinal Egan), Sydney (Archbishop Pell), São Paolo (Cardinal Hummes), the Democratic Republic of Congo (Cardinal Etsou), and Singapore (Archbishop Chia).

Homily of Fr Sheehan

Homily of Archbishop Conti

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