Beatification of Cardinal Newman

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Church officials in England have confirmed that the beatification of Cardinal John Henry Newman will take place in Birmingham rather than, as originally planned, at Coventry airport. Pope Benedict XVI will preside at the beatification ceremony, which will be held on September 19, the final day of the Pope’s trip the England. Organizers expect 80,000 people to attend the service in Birmingham’s Cofton Park. Earlier plans for the papal visit envisioned a beatification ceremony taking place with an outdoor Mass at the airport in Coventry. But with planning for the papal trip dogged by organizational and budgetary problems, the ceremony was shifted to a less ambitious venue. The Mass at Coventry airport would have called for considerable advance planning, including road closings and intense security measures. Organizers of the papal trip pointed out that with the beatification taking place in Birmingham, Pope Benedict would have the opportunity to visit the Oratory where Cardinal Newman worked.

Two members of the New York Congregation Oratory will take part in the celebrations: Fr. Martin Kertys and Fr. Francis Conka.

Foundation of The NY Oratory

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On June 28, 2007, the Feast of the Holy Apostle Peter and Paul, Pope Benedict XVI founded the New York Congregation Oratory of St. Philip Neri in New York. It was done with recommendation from Edward Cardinal Egan the Archbishop of New York. On the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Mother in heaven, August 15, 2007, the Oratory was instituted in the presence of Cardinal Egan and the Archbishop Alojz Tkac, during a solemn liturgy in our church of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart. The General Procurator, P. Edoardo Cerrato, consigned the Decree of Foundation to the Oratorian Fathers and delivered the following address: Your Eminence Cardinal Egan, Most Reverend Archbishop Tkac, Reverend Monsignors and Fathers, Esteemed Guests and Friends. It is with joy and honor that I bring to this new Congregation of the Oratory the Apostolic Rescript by which the Holy Father Benedict XVI canonically established this Congregation. I am fully aware that this event takes place when the Archdiocese of New York, in a historic moment, celebrates the Bicentennial of its own glorious foundation. This is the eighth Oratory established in the United States of America, after the first one was founded sixty years ago in Rock Hill, South Carolina, followed by the Oratories of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, Monterey in California, Pharr in Texas, Brooklyn in New York and Metuchen in New Jersey. I most sincerely thank His Eminence, the Archbishop of New York, Cardinal Egan, for graciously accepting the Oratory of Saint Philip as part of this local church, thus confirming the initial benevolence granted it by Cardinal John O’Connor of blessed memory. I also very much thank the Most Reverend Alojz Tkac, the Archbishop of Kosice, Slovakia, who in his admirable missionary zeal, has permitted his priests to join this Oratory. I am sure that the Lord, in return for your pastoral generosity, will bless the Spirit-filled churches of New York in the United States and Kosice and Nitra in Slovakia. I hope that this new Oratorian foundation in New York will contribute to the illustrious celebration of the Bicentennial and become a stable and generous apostolic presence to the people of God in New York. I entrust this new Oratory to the loving protection and intercession of the most holy and glorious Mother of God, on whose feast it begins its journey. I commend it to the holy Apostles Peter and Paul on whose feast it received its official approval and I place it into the loving arms of our father Saint Philip and of Venerable Cardinal Cesare Baronio, the exemplary disciple and first successor of Saint Philip. This year, the entire Oratorian family is celebrating the four hundredth anniversary of the death of Venerable Cardinal Baronio, the first in a long succession of Oratorian Cardinals, including John Henry Cardinal Newman. Last but not least, I wish to pay a loving homage to the Holy Father Benedict XVI who is sending his Apostolic blessing to all who are present at this celebration. Last September, welcoming our Oratorian family during a Pontifical audience, he exhorted us never to forget the “Rock from which we were hewn”, in other words, never to forget the legacy of Saint Philip’s “proclamation of the Gospel in love”. Cesare Baronio used to remind us of that, with the first disciples of Saint Philip being unforgettable witnesses of that charism. Dear Fathers of the new Oratory, please enter today in the great Family which continues to flourish in the Church since the sixteenth century and was transplanted on the American continent already in seventeenth century when it arrived at Puebla de los Angeles. Let us now thank the Lord for the gift of the New York Congregation of the Oratory. May you be worthy of this grace and always walk in the footsteps of Saint Philip by serving the Church. God bless you!

Procurator General visited our Oratory

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January 18-25, 2006 – The Procurator General, Rev. Edoardo Cerrato, visits in Sparkill, NY, the New York Oratorian community in formation. Later meets Edward Cardinal Egan, the Archbishop of New York and Very Rev. Robert Brucato, Vicar General of the Archdiocese of New York. The visit results in granting of the Archdiocesan consent to have a Congregation Oratory of St. Philip established in New York Archdiocese.

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