Bishop Buddy Scrapbook 1938-1940

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Bishop To Invest Msgr. Forristal As Domestic Prelate Ceremonies for Chancellor of Diocese to Be Held Sunday Afternoon at St. Agnes' Church, Pt. Loma, Priests Of Diocese to Be Present. Formal investiture in the purple robes of a Mon- signor v.ill be made by the Most Rev. Bishop Charles F . Buddy Sunday afternoon upon the Rt. Rev. Laurence Forristal, Chancellor of the Diocese of San Diego, \\ ho was created a Domestic Prelate by the Holy Father, Pope ---•i•Pius XII on May 17. j

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• • • I E1·eryone was happy and thank- rul-especially the Bishop of the Diocese who presided and said in I part: "The elevation of our be- · loved f'hancellor to the rank of I Domestic Prelate of the Vicar of Christ, gives nPw lustre to the link that binds San o;ego to Rome and Point Loma to San Diego. It is another evidence that the I Church is a wise, loving and pru- dent Mother. .She recomizcs the same genuine worth that we all recognize. Indeed, it would J;eem on th is solemn day that the golden chain of Our Blessed :Mother's Rosary unites ur, in even deeper affection under her maternal protection."

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Investiture ceremonies. w it h His Excellency acting as the per- sonal representative of the Holy Father, will be held at St. Agnes Church, Point Loma, where Msgr. Forristal has been pastor since coming to San Diego to take over the office of chancellor. The ceremony has been set for 4: 00 p.m. and will be open to the pub- lic, the first such ceremony since the formation of the Diocese and the only one held in San Diego since January, 1933 , when the Rt. Rev. Msgr. John M. Hegarty. V. G .. was installed in that office on the appointment of the late Holy Father. Priests of the Diocese will be in attendance and will take part in the procession from the rectory to the church. Upon the Most Rev. Bishop taking his place on the Predella the new Domestic Prelate will approach vested in his purple cassock and stand at the foot of the Altar while the authorization from Rome for his investiture is read then kneeling at the feet of the Bishop he will read the Profession of Faith. Blessing the Rochette and Man- taletta, the Bishop will present them to Msgr. Forristal His Ex-• cellency will then speak and a response will be made by the new Domestic Prelate. Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament will close the ceremonies. I Following the investiture cere- monies a dinner will be held for the clergy at 6:00 p.m. at the S. E. S. hall. The affair will be in- formal. l!'he Apostolic brief by which the Holy Father named the chan- cellor a Domestic Prelate reached San Diego June 8, through the Apostolic Delegate in Washing- ton, D. C., and the Bishop noti- fied the new monsignor of the signal honor by telegram aboard the S. S. Vulcania as he was en route to Europe. Investment in the robes of his office was delay- ed until his return, although the privilege to be invested in Lon- don, where Msgr. Forristal's two sisters are superiors of convents or in Ireland where another sis- te and brother reside, was extend- ed by the Most Rev. Bishop. Msgr. ForrisLal returned to San Diego early last week in time for the Silver Jubilee Mass celebrated by the Most Rev. Bishop.

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