Reese’s history-making will continue when Bishop Steven J. In full communion with the Church, the ordinariate is able to maintain its Anglican spiritual heritage in its worship-and in having married men ordained as priests. The ordinariate functions like a diocese for former Anglicans and Episcopalians in the United States and Canada. Peter, which was established in 2012 by Pope Benedict XVI. They and two other families were the first from an Anglican background in central and southern Indiana accepted as members of the Houston-based Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. At the same time, they’ve been a family of firsts. Since the Reese family was received into the full communion of the Church in 2012, they’ve sought to live out their faith as many Catholic families strive to do. “I look forward to the adventure of it all.”

“I’m really excited about it,” said Deacon Reese, who was ordained to the diaconate on May 31. Soon after, Deacon Reese will begin ministering in parishes in central and southern Indiana, another step in a winding spiritual journey for him and his family. On June 29, transitional Deacon Luke Reese, a former Anglican priest, will become the first married priest in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis when he is ordained in a liturgy witnessed by his wife Gina of 24 years and their seven children. Father McCarthy is pastor of Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary Parish in Indianapolis, where members of the ordinariate in central and southern Indiana worship. Ryan McCarthy, left, places a deacon’s dalmatic on transitional Deacon Luke Reese during a May 31 ordination Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham in Houston in which Deacon Reese and two other men were ordained for the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Former Anglican priest to make history as first married priest in archdioceseįather C.

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