Blessed Father Rother Memorial added to Liturgical Calendar

In early March, Robert Cardinal Sarah, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship in Rome, approved a request by Bishop David Konderla to add a memorial for Blessed Father Stanley Rother to the Liturgical Calendar in the Diocese of Tulsa and Eastern Oklahoma. As is the case already in the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City and the Diocese of Little Rock, Father Rother’s optional memorial will be celebrated on July 28, the anniversary date of his martyrdom.

Optional memorial days are unlike feast days solemnities in that they are optional, draw from common weekday prayers and readings and are never celebrated if they fall on a Sunday, solemnity, feast, Ash Wednesday, Holy Week or during the Octave of Easter.

Cardinal Sarah’s decree was sent in English, Latin and Spanish and included a Collect and a second reading from an address of Pope Saint John Paul II.

To view or dowload Cardinal Sarah's official decree, click HERE.