Did you know that St. Josemaria was ordained on a Saturday of the fifth week of Lent? Tomorrow, 28th of March, is again the Saturday of the fifth week of Lent! The following Monday (30th) was his first Mass, which was not a solemn Mass but a low Mass because it was on the Monday of Passion Week, with purple vestments, and was for the repose of the soul of his father. The Mass was in the Holy Chapel of Our Lady of the Pillar in Saragossa, at 10:30 in the morning. This of course again coincides this year of 2015.
St. Josemaria was only 23 years old. By canon law, the age required for ordination was 24. Being 10 months short, he requested a dispensation from the Pope. On February 20th, 1925, he received the good news from Rome. On March 4, San Josemaria sent to the vicar general the formal request.
90 years ago, on Ember Saturday, March 28th, 1925, the ceremony of priestly ordination was celebrated in the church of the Priestly Seminary of San Carlos Borromeo, Saragossa, with Bishop Miguel de los Santos presiding.
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