Funeral Mass - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 03 Sep 2015 00:20:48 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Funeral Mass - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 No homily at Wesolowski Vatican funeral https://cathnews.co.nz/2015/09/04/no-homily-at-wesolowski-vatican-funeral/ Thu, 03 Sep 2015 19:14:34 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=76149

There was no homily at the Vatican funeral for former Archbishop Jozef Wesolowski as a gesture of respect for his victims. Wesolowski, a former papal nuncio to the Dominican Republic, died last week while awaiting trial at the Vatican on charges of child sex abuse and possessing child pornography. He did not appear at the Read more

No homily at Wesolowski Vatican funeral... Read more]]> There was no homily at the Vatican funeral for former Archbishop Jozef Wesolowski as a gesture of respect for his victims.

Wesolowski, a former papal nuncio to the Dominican Republic, died last week while awaiting trial at the Vatican on charges of child sex abuse and possessing child pornography.

He did not appear at the first day of his trial in July, but was taken to hospital.

A funeral Mass was celebrated on Monday by the papal almoner, Polish Archbishop Konrad Krajewski, at the chapel of the Vatican Governate.

A sign of respect for the innocent victims, Archbishop Krajewski forewent the homily and instead invited the faithful to "reflect in silence on the great gift the Lord offers us with the Eucharist and offer it to our brother Joseph".

A Vatican spokesman said the silence instead of the homily was Archbishop Krajewski's idea.

There were more than twenty concelebrants at the funeral Mass.

These including Cardinal James Harvey, a former prefect of the Papal Household, and Msgr Wells, Assessor for General Affairs of the Secretariat of State.

There were also about 50 or so nuns belonging to various congregations, some monks and a group of journalists.

The rite was celebrated as it would be for a lay person, as the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith had dismissed Wesolowski from the clerical state.

The CDF rejected his appeal against this.

At the funeral, one of the prayers of the faithful, read by a Pauline nun, was for Wesolowski and another was for his victims.

The faithful reportedly prayed "for the soul of our brother Joseph, that the Lord may free it from the power of the darkness and from eternal death".

The celebrant then invoked forgiveness for all sins "so that the souls of our dead brothers may obtain the forgiveness they always yearned for".

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No homily at Wesolowski Vatican funeral]]> 76149 Catholic priest's funeral Mass to be in Anglican church https://cathnews.co.nz/2015/09/01/catholic-priests-funeral-mass-to-be-in-anglican-church/ Mon, 31 Aug 2015 19:05:40 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=75967 The funeral Mass of an English Catholic priest is to be celebrated in an Anglican church in recognition of the work he did to bring Christians together. Canon Brian O'Sullivan of Arundel and Brighton diocese died on August 21. The Anglican Bishop of Chichester, Dr Martin Warner, has approved the unusual funeral move in recognition Read more

Catholic priest's funeral Mass to be in Anglican church... Read more]]> The funeral Mass of an English Catholic priest is to be celebrated in an Anglican church in recognition of the work he did to bring Christians together.

Canon Brian O'Sullivan of Arundel and Brighton diocese died on August 21.

The Anglican Bishop of Chichester, Dr Martin Warner, has approved the unusual funeral move in recognition of Canon O'Sullivan's "commitment to life in Christian unity".

A vigil Mass will be celebrated in the Catholic Christ the King Church in Steyning on September 7, with the funeral Mass at the Anglican parish of St Andrew and St Cuthman the next day.

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