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Bishop Flores to celebrate Mass on eve of Our Lady of Guadalupe
by Robert Delaney of The Michigan Catholic
Published December 5, 2008
Detroit – Auxiliary Bishop Daniel Flores will celebrate "una peregrinacion y vigilia" (a pilgrimage and vigil), as well as Mass at the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament on Thursday, Dec. 11, the eve of the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
Bishop Flores said Cardinal Adam Maida approved his request to hold the services, even though it meant Bishop Flores would not be able to attend Bishop John Quinn's reception as the new coadjutor bishop of Winona, Minn., that day.
"I told him that I thought we needed to try to establish a custom of pulling the community together the night before Guadalupe, at the Cathedral, as a sign of the importance of the feast for the whole Church, and as a way of encouraging unity within the Hispanic Catholic community," Bishop Flores said in a statement.
The vigil is to begin at 6:30 p.m. at the cathedral, 9844 Woodward Ave., just north of Boston Boulevard, Detroit, with Mass at 7 p.m.
"I think we have a good chance of establishing a strong tradition of celebrating the Feast of Guadalupe as a celebration of great archdiocesan significance. I am hoping that people will be able to come the night before to a celebration at the cathedral, and then celebrate in the parishes in the morning and in the evening of Dec. 12.
"It seems to work in other dioceses, and I hope it can work here," Bishop Flores added.
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