By Kiply Lukan Yaworski, Catholic Saskatoon News
On the First Sunday of Lent, Bishop Mark Hagemoen celebrated Mass with the parish community of St. Joseph Catholic Church in Kindersley, including special prayers for the installation of Fr. Francis Appiah-Kubi as pastor of the parishes at Kindersley, Marengo, Eston, and Eatonia.
The bishop has explained that the installation prayers for pastors is a way “to celebrate the liturgical and sacramental priesthood that the pastor gives and presents to a parish community as an ordained ministerial priest, to the baptized who also share in the priesthood of Christ – called the common priesthood – and there is an intimate, vital relationship there.”
The installation ceremony highlight the priest’s sacramental ministry through a series of prayers at different spots throughout the church building: the altar, the ambo, the tabernacle, the baptismal font, the entrance of the church, the confessional, and so on.
Prayers at the ambo at St. Joseph Parish in Kindersley for the installation of Fr. Francis Appiah-Kubi as pastor. (Submitted photo)
Prayers at the altar at St. Joseph Parish in Kindersley for the installation of Fr. Francis Appiah-Kubi as pastor. (Submitted photo)
Prayers at the tabernacle at St. Joseph Parish in Kindersley for the installation of Fr. Francis Appiah-Kubi as pastor. (Submitted photo)
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