Our Chrism Mass was last night in Portland. Wow! Fantastic music, I would say close to 200 priests, the Re-Commitment Ceremony for the priests was soo moving.
And of course, the presentation of the Holy Oils.
A great Mass. Our Archbishop said the Mass and Assistant Bishop assisted. A number of deacons also were present. (As well as a lot of young seminarians!)
Wow!
Our diocese will be ordaining 4 new priests in May. That is actually an incredible amount, since I think we had less than 10 in the last 15 years with our previous bishop. Our new bishop is his own vocations director, he is proving so good at it that the Holy Father arranged a last minute audience with him the last time he was in Rome.