SSPX Priestly Ordinations 2019
stas.org/en St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary is pleased to announce the ordination of four seminarians to the order of the Diaconate and five to the holy Priesthood of Our Lord Jesus Christ. On the morning of Friday June 21st, His Excellency Bishop Tissier de Mallerais celebrated the annual ordination Mass assisted by dozens of priests and hundreds of faithful from across the nation. Each year on this solemn occasion, the Church calls us to contemplate the extraordinary mystery of Our Lord Jesus Christ and His Eternal Priesthood. By the bishop’s imposition of hands, the newly ordained priest becomes an alter Christus. He receives upon his soul that indelible Levitical character which introduces forever him into the Order of Melchisedech. By this ineffable change, the soul of the priest becomes inseparably united to Christ, whose first act was that of a Priest: adoration. The newly ordained are called to follow in the footsteps of Christ to the foot of the Cross …More