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Catholics in the Diocese of Corpus Christi gathered with Bishop Michael Mulvey and their priests to celebrate the Chrism Mass on April 16.

Churches throughout the Diocese of Corpus Christi celebrated Palm Sunday, the beginning of Hoy Week on April 14. Palm Sunday is the celebration of Jesus' joyful entry into Jerusalem as he arrives on a donkey and the crowd fans him with palms then lays them at his feet, just a few days before their change of heart and he is later arrested and crucified.

The Catholic broadcast ministries of KLUX 89.5-1, CCN Radio 89.5-2 and CCN Video Productions will once again join forces to carry all of the evenings of Holy Week Liturgies LIVE from Corpus Christi Cathedral, as well as 3 hours of special programming on Good Friday. Any programming available on KLUX 89.5HD-1 will also be available simultaneously online as streaming audio at KLUX.org and by way of the KLUX Smartphone APP. All Video Broadcasts will be available as streaming video on the Web at http://GoCCN.org

During my time in seminary with the SOLT community in Rome, we would alternate where we would celebrate the Easter Vigil. One year we would attend the Vigil at St. Peter’s Basilica with Pope Saint John Paul II presiding. The next year, in order to have some firsthand experience of organizing, preparing and serving the Easter Vigil, we would celebrate in our humble basement chapel which was within a huge complex belonging to the Christian Brothers of St. John the Baptist de La Salle, from whom we used to rent out a block of rooms. While of course, the papal celebrations were unforgettable in their grandeur, solemnity and beauty, sometimes, the subtle symbolic significance of very profound liturgical gestures would become more apparent while celebrating the Easter Vigil in our basement chapel. There are two such moments that I would like to share with you here.

Bishop Michael Mulvey installed Corpus Christi seminarians Thomas Swierc and Daniel Flores, currently Theology I students at St. Mary’s Seminary in Houston, into the ministry of Lector.