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Elizabeth502
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The current bishop of the Oakland diocese is administering the diocese only. He is actually retired, and is serving in the interim, between Cordileone having left Oakland and moved to his San Francisco position.
Pope names Jesuit to lead Oakland diocese (Michael C Barber, SJ)
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Havard
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He’s celebrated Mass at my parish at least once that I’ve attended. Possibly many times?!? I get him confused with his brother, Fr. Stephen Barber, S.J. … It’s hard for me to tell them apart!
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Havard
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Okay, just found a picture of his brother… Fr. Michael’s the one I’m more familiar with, but I have been to a Mass where his brother concelebrated with him. His brother is (or was) a chaplain at San Quentin prison.
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larsont7
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This promising endorsement came from a message board about Fr. Barber’s new appointment:
Steve Phoenix says:
May 3, 2013 at 2:10 pm
Well, I have had the happy opportunity to have known soon-to-be Bp. Barber, God bless and protect him, from long, long past,in a galaxy far, far away; and Oakland could hardly get a better choice for a strong traditional Catholic leader and an excellent priest. He in fact was put through some difficult times in the Jesuits, even starting from novitiate, many years ago, for being “too rigid” (yes, you may roll your eyes at this stock “slam”) and inferentially “pre-Vatican II,” and yet he stayed with it despite all the flak. He had a very good theological training at Toronto, at the Pontifical Institute there, so he is not a “Berkeley Jesuit”, with all the theological malformation therein. He has always loved the TLM, the true Catholic cultic priesthood, is fluent in trad Latin, would always spend time available to him to travel and study monastic roots and foundations and well as to study true Catholic theology (Aquinas) and know it, and Catholic tradition, and know it too. He is deeply dedicated to a life of prayer and saying the Office, esp. the traditional office. He knows something bad went wrong in the Catholic Church over the last 1/2 century, and he has studied long and hard to analyze and understand it and counter it. Yes he will have his work cut out for him in the abyss of Oakland Catholicism but he is tough as nails and more than equal to the cause — but also most very charitable, kind and smart. I am sure in some recesses of the California Jesuit houses there are knees knocking loud as fire alarms at this appointment… and I AM LOVING IT!!!
cal-catholic.com/wordpress/2013/05/03/father-michael-barber-sj-named-as-bishop-of-oakland/
Steve Phoenix says:
May 3, 2013 at 2:10 pm
Well, I have had the happy opportunity to have known soon-to-be Bp. Barber, God bless and protect him, from long, long past,in a galaxy far, far away; and Oakland could hardly get a better choice for a strong traditional Catholic leader and an excellent priest. He in fact was put through some difficult times in the Jesuits, even starting from novitiate, many years ago, for being “too rigid” (yes, you may roll your eyes at this stock “slam”) and inferentially “pre-Vatican II,” and yet he stayed with it despite all the flak. He had a very good theological training at Toronto, at the Pontifical Institute there, so he is not a “Berkeley Jesuit”, with all the theological malformation therein. He has always loved the TLM, the true Catholic cultic priesthood, is fluent in trad Latin, would always spend time available to him to travel and study monastic roots and foundations and well as to study true Catholic theology (Aquinas) and know it, and Catholic tradition, and know it too. He is deeply dedicated to a life of prayer and saying the Office, esp. the traditional office. He knows something bad went wrong in the Catholic Church over the last 1/2 century, and he has studied long and hard to analyze and understand it and counter it. Yes he will have his work cut out for him in the abyss of Oakland Catholicism but he is tough as nails and more than equal to the cause — but also most very charitable, kind and smart. I am sure in some recesses of the California Jesuit houses there are knees knocking loud as fire alarms at this appointment… and I AM LOVING IT!!!
cal-catholic.com/wordpress/2013/05/03/father-michael-barber-sj-named-as-bishop-of-oakland/
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amsjj
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Bishop-elect Barber was the spiritual director for the Cardinal Newman Pilgrimage in 2010 and was a celebrant at the Beatification Mass with Pope Benedict, and also at the first mass at Newman Shrine celebrated the day after. His was a very calm presence, kind.
Particularly I remember him saying a lovely Mass for us at the Little Oratory in Brompton, and then afterwards blessing us with the “Calefornia” ring which Blessed John Henry received from California Catholics during the Achilli trial; that gold nugget was enormous!
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Regarding the ordination-installation Mass, the diocesan web site says it’ll start today at 11am Pacific:
oakdiocese.org/diocese/bishop/episcopal-ordination-and-installation
and will be live-streamed at:
ustream.tv/channel/diocese-of-oakland
EWTN will also broadcast the ceremony:
Cathedrals Across America: The Mass of Ordination and Installation of Fr. Michael Charles Barber as the 5th Bishop Of Oakland.
The Installation of Father Michael Barber, SJ as the fifth Bishop of Oakland, California from the Cathedral of Christ the Light. LIVE.
Saturday, 05/25/2013 11:00 AM (live) ; 09:00 PM (encore)
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Jesus, God and man,
imprisoned by love in Thy most holy Sacrament,
have mercy upon us.
ese Cristo con su Cuerpo, con su Sangre, con su Alma, y con su Divinidad,
prisonero de amor.
St. Justin the Martyr. He says ‘Jesus often said, “They who are near Me are near a fire”’.
Particularly I remember him saying a lovely Mass for us at the Little Oratory in Brompton, and then afterwards blessing us with the “Calefornia” ring which Blessed John Henry received from California Catholics during the Achilli trial; that gold nugget was enormous!
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Regarding the ordination-installation Mass, the diocesan web site says it’ll start today at 11am Pacific:
oakdiocese.org/diocese/bishop/episcopal-ordination-and-installation
and will be live-streamed at:
ustream.tv/channel/diocese-of-oakland
EWTN will also broadcast the ceremony:
Cathedrals Across America: The Mass of Ordination and Installation of Fr. Michael Charles Barber as the 5th Bishop Of Oakland.
The Installation of Father Michael Barber, SJ as the fifth Bishop of Oakland, California from the Cathedral of Christ the Light. LIVE.
Saturday, 05/25/2013 11:00 AM (live) ; 09:00 PM (encore)
amsjj
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Jesus, God and man,
imprisoned by love in Thy most holy Sacrament,
have mercy upon us.
- Blessed John Henry Newman, December 22, 1851
ese Cristo con su Cuerpo, con su Sangre, con su Alma, y con su Divinidad,
prisonero de amor.
- San Josemaría Escrivá, 1 junio 1974
St. Justin the Martyr. He says ‘Jesus often said, “They who are near Me are near a fire”’.
- Abp. W. B. Ullathorne, August 1st 1886
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