Leadership

  • His Excellency Steven J. Lopes

    Bishop, Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter

  • Fr. Glenn Baaten

    Parochial Administrator, St. John Henry Newman

Welcome to St. John Henry Newman

We are a growing Catholic community in the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter dedicated to forming and nurturing disciples in Jesus Christ with our beautiful traditions of liturgy, prayer, biblically-rooted preaching, and fellowship.

The Mass is offered according to Divine Worship: The Missal, in the Ordinariate Form of the Roman Rite. As a community of the Ordinariate, we participate locally in the larger mission of the Universal Catholic Church for the salvation of souls and we participate in the single Church of Jesus Christ. This single Church of Christ which we profess in the Creed as one, holy, catholic and apostolic subsists in the Catholic Church, which is governed by the successor of Peter and by the Bishops in communion with him. Nevertheless, many elements of sanctification and of truth are found outside her visible confines. Since these are gifts properly belonging to the Church of Christ, they are forces which impel all of us toward Catholic unity. At St. John’s we seek to maintain the liturgical, spiritual, and pastoral traditions of the English Catholic Church, as a precious gift nourishing the faith of the members of the Ordinariate and as a treasure to be shared.

All people are warmly welcome to join us for Mass and for all of our community gatherings. “However, because Catholics believe that the celebration of the Eucharist is a sign of the reality of the oneness of faith, life, and worship, members of those churches with whom we are not yet fully united are ordinarily not admitted to Holy Communion. We pray that our common baptism and the action of the Holy Spirit in this Eucharist will draw us closer to one another and begin to dispel the sad divisions which separate us. We pray that these will lessen and finally disappear, in keeping with Christ's prayer for us "that they may all be one" (Jn 17:21).” Properly prepared Catholics in communion with the See of St. Peter are welcome to receive Holy Communion with us.

 

“I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: Go down again - I dwell among the people.”

— St. John Henry Newman