PROVIDENCE — Bishop Thomas J. Tobin was the principal celebrant at the annual Chrism Mass on Monday night at the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul, and Auxiliary Bishop Robert C. Evans was the homilist.
The Mass, offered in Providence annually on the day following Palm Sunday, is the celebration at which the precious sacramental oils used throughout the diocese each year — the Oil of Catechumens, the Oil of the Sick and the Sacred Chrism used for Baptism, Confirmation and the Holy Priesthood — are blessed. It is also an occasion for priests to celebrate unity with their bishop as they renew their priestly promises.
“When our days have run their course and the pilgrimage of our life comes to its end, may we be judged worthy of that eternal, heavenly banquet, prefigured each and every time we were privileged to celebrate Holy Mass,” Bishop Evans said of the priesthood in his homily.
