Endorsed by Catholic Bishops worldwide who support the traditional Latin Mass
1977 – Various bishops have provided us with the Holy Oils (Oil of the Catechumens, Oil of the Sick and Sacred Chrism) each year. Continuously since 2020, an Asian ordinary has helped us obtain these Holy Oils from a North American ordinary.
1987 – A South American ordinary’s episcopal vicar authorized our community to tonsure members into the clerical state. The same episcopal vicar subsequently administered full minors and ordinations to the sub-diaconate. This ordinary gave dimissorial letters for additional ordinations.
1989 – Augustin Cardinal Mayer, President of Pontifical Commission, “Ecclesia Dei” supported our use of the traditional Latin Mass.
1990 – Archbishop (later Cardinal) J. Francis Stafford, appointed by Cardinal Mayer as his representative in our case.
1995 – Priestly ordinations were administered by a religious order, North American ordinary. Faculties for Sacrament of Penance were given “usque ad revocationem”.
1995 – Confirmation ceremony by a bi-ritual Eastern rite Metropolitan.
1996 – Confirmation ceremony by religious order, Asian ordinary
1997 – Confirmation ceremony by a religious order, North American ordinary
2000 – Confirmation ceremony by retired Asian ordinary
2001 – A religious order, North American ordinary authorized our community to tonsure members into the clerical state.
2002 – Tonsured clerics received first minor orders from and confirmations were administered by a religious order, North American ordinary
2002 – A religious order, North American ordinary authorized our community to administer full minors and this was done.
2003 – Dario Cardinal Castrillon-Hoyos, President of the Pontifical Commission, “Ecclesia Dei”, begins work with us on traditional Latin Mass.
2008 – Faculties for Penance given in local diocese through Cardinal Hoyos.
2008 – Bishop James Conley appointed by Cardinal Hoyos as Special Delegate in our case.
2013 – Confirmations by auxiliary of Asian archdiocese
2018 – Tonsure and full Minors were given by retired North American ordinary.
2020 – Confirmations and ordination to the Holy Priesthood by a retired ordinary. Again, “usque ad revocationem” faculties were obtained from an ordinary.
2024 – Our Father Superior was consecrated a bishop by a retired ordinary from outside the United States on the feast of Saint Joseph, March 19th.
2024 – Our Father Superior, Bishop Anthony D. Ward, offered the Chrism Mass on Holy Thursday, March 28th, for the first time and consecrated the Sacred Oils that will be used this year for the sacraments that require them.
Please remember in your prayers these bishops and the other bishops, not listed, who have visited us, offered Mass in our chapel, invited us to work in their dioceses and continue to assist and to advise us.