Pope Benedict expected to name Bishop Jose Gomez to succeed Mahony in Los Angeles

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To say nothing of the brilliance of naming an Opus Dei archbishop to succeed Cardinal Mahony’s often-time goofy liturgical sense.

Good for you, City of Our Lady, Queen of the Angels!
 
Wow! This news comes as a shock to me. Archbishop Jose Gomez has been a true blessing to those of us in the Archdiocese of San Antonio. He will be very much missed. Only having been Archbishop now for a few years, he has really brought about a resurgences in vocations and laity involvement. Archbishop Gomez is very close to the people here and very involved in the community. Extremely humble and very accessible, I actually had the privilege of meeting him at San Antonio’s Theology on Tap. To any Angelinos in here I say take care of him, he truly is a great servant of our Lord Jesus Christ.
 
I have fallen to my knees and am chanting Te Deum!

I cannot help but imagine the Archbishop’s impression when he is officially welcomed at the Taj Mahony.
 
Diaconia said:
To say nothing of the brilliance of naming an Opus Dei archbishop to succeed Cardinal Mahony’s often-time goofy liturgical sense.

Good for you, City of Our Lady, Queen of the Angels!
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No doubt that there will be an effect on liturgical practices in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and the suffragan dioceses.

But keep in mind that Opus Dei is not a liturgical organization but one which promotes the work and role of the laity. Not such a bad thing for an archdiocese with a low ratio of priests to laity. …a laity which takes expects to take an active role in the daily life of the Church.
 
JKirkLVNV said:
You are, of course, quite correct, PNewton, quite correct. Nonetheless, whaddya wanna bet that the liturgical dancers of LA have begun to rend their leotards in grief? Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!

Sorry, sorry…my glee got the better of my charity.😛
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I’m incredibly happy for L.A., but, unfortunately, in my experience a good, orthodox Archbishop doesn’t mean the end of liturgical dancing. Here in St. Louis we’ve had Raymond Burke and now Robert Carlson, and we are still having to put up w/ liturgical dancing. :mad: At my parish they’ve renamed it “Ministry of danced prayer” :rolleyes: and it was being restricted to just the processional and recessional, but they’ve gotten bold again and are back at it during the Alleluia and Gloria as well. Luckily, it’s only a few times a year. My guess is that the Archbishop has “bigger fish to fry” and the liturgical abuses get placed on the back burner to be dealt with at a later time?

In Christ,

Ellen
 
Sword_Brethren said:
I don’t think so. The Latin Mass community here in San Antonio have been greatly persecuted by our Catholic leaders of San Antonio.
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Really? Archbishop Jose Gomez as well as former Archbishop Patrick Flores both have expressed their desire for the Tridentine or Latin mass to be celebrated in the San Antonio Archdiocese.:highprayer: The only problem is that most priests do not know exactly how to celebrate or preside over the Latin mass and most lay Catholics are not familiar with it either.

olof-sanantonio.com/
acatholiclife.blogspot.com/2009/05/tridentine-latin-mass-in-san-antonio.html

I’ve personally never heard of San Antonio Catholic leaders “persecuting” the Latin Mass, and also I attend services at the Cathedral in S.A. once a month and never heard congo’s or bongo’s being played inside the Cathedral. :confused:
 
Sword_Brethren said:
I don’t think so. Say hello to the Mariachi Mass. Maybe congo drums too because I have seen them being used in the cathedral here is San Antonio.
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You will not find more conservative Catholics/Clergy than ones that are members of Opus Dei.
 
ALLGIRLS said:
I’m incredibly happy for L.A., but, unfortunately, in my experience a good, orthodox Archbishop doesn’t mean the end of liturgical dancing. Here in St. Louis we’ve had Raymond Burke and now Robert Carlson, and we are still having to put up w/ liturgical dancing. :mad: At my parish they’ve renamed it “Ministry of danced prayer” :rolleyes: and it was being restricted to just the processional and recessional, but they’ve gotten bold again and are back at it during the Alleluia and Gloria as well. Luckily, it’s only a few times a year. My guess is that the Archbishop has “bigger fish to fry” and the liturgical abuses get placed on the back burner to be dealt with at a later time?

In Christ,

Ellen
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The problem is there are not enough Priests to replace those Priests who have made all the inventions. It takes time.
 
I have had the priviledge of working with Archbishop Gomez for the past year and I am saddened by our loss. I know he will be a wonderful blessing for LA. I pray we, too, will be blessed with an equally wonderful successor.
 
Thank God that the Holy Father has named such a fearless leader to an area in great need of spiritual and liturgical reform!

When will Archbishop Gomez be elevated (is that the proper term?) to Cardinal?
 
There is no guarantee it will happen, but it is a good possibility. For Cardinal Mahony it took six years.
 
Sorry – I was so exuberant that I didn’t read all of the preceding posts carefully! I guess it will be at least the six years because, as David has posted, Cardinal Mahony will retain his voting privilege for that long. Hope there will be no need for a vote for many more than six years!!!

I wonder how the dominoes will fall in naming a successor to Archbishop Gomez in San Antonio. A good bishop will become an archbishop and that will make room for a new bishop somewhere. Perhaps Chaput will go to Texas and someone from Colorado will have a new hat! Just speculation, of course!
 
ABp. Jose Gomez’s appointment is GREAT news! I think it will have a profoundly positive influence on future Los Angeles Religious Education Congresses! Now it will not only be by far the biggest such gathering, it will also be the best – at least in the USA. Thanks be to God! 👍
 
barb_finnegan said:
Oh, I think you can be excused…😃

But oh happy day for LA! I hope that the new Archbishop will TERMINATE that travesty of a ‘religious education congress’! :extrahappy:
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I agree that it is a happy day for the LA Archdiocese, where I live. I think Archbishop Gomez, from what I have read, will be very favorable to the Anglican Use and a possible ordinariate (and, on a more personal level, to my possible vocation as a consecrated virgin living in the world: my pastor has been discouraging me from pursuing the vocation so far because Cardinal Mahony is not interested in it).

However, Barb, there are some good, small-o orthodox lectures at the Religious Education Congress (I’ve been attending it every year for the past five years): just a few lectures and some liturgies are objectionable. It would be nice to have more orthodox speakers at Congress and more traditional liturgies (even though I commute to Congress from home and usually leave when the lectures end in the late afternoon, I might stay more often if the liturgies were less, uh, innovative :rolleyes:).
 
Alamo_Catholic said:
Really? Archbishop Jose Gomez as well as former Archbishop Patrick Flores both have expressed their desire for the Tridentine or Latin mass to be celebrated in the San Antonio Archdiocese.:highprayer: The only problem is that most priests do not know exactly how to celebrate or preside over the Latin mass and most lay Catholics are not familiar with it either.

olof-sanantonio.com/
acatholiclife.blogspot.com/2009/05/tridentine-latin-mass-in-san-antonio.html

I’ve personally never heard of San Antonio Catholic leaders “persecuting” the Latin Mass, and also I attend services at the Cathedral in S.A. once a month and never heard congo’s or bongo’s being played inside the Cathedral. :confused:
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It was Fr. McHugh that invited The Latin Mass Community to have the Latin Mass at his church. Before that for over 8 years we had no parish church to celebrate the Latin Mass. None of the Many Catholic Churches in San Antonio would let of celebrate the Latin Mass in their Church. We had a very small chapel behind an old folks home to celebrate the Latin Mass. The air conditioning was not adequate in the hot San Antonio summer. Also Fr. Kloster our leader who has a great love for the Latin Mass has been banned from celebrating Mass at the diocese chapel that is televised. Also, Fr. Kloster has not been given work as a parish priest. No Catholic parish will take him here.
 
Just to clarify an earlier posting.

Cardinal Mahony, like all bishops, must submit his resignation to the Vatican upon turning 75 (for him that’s 27 Feb 2011). But the Holy Father can accept his resignation as he sees fit.

So yes, Cardinal Mahony may retire and Archbishop Gomez then succeed him on 27 Feb 2011. But it could be sooner or it could be later.

Typically Coadjutors serve between 6 and 18 months before becoming the ordinary. So I think its a safe bet that Archbishop Gomez will become the ordinary of Los Angeles sometime next year and I do think its likely to happen before August (Vatican holiday month).
 
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