With praise and thanksgiving to Almighty God,

the clergy, religious and faithful of the Diocese of Fort Worth

cordially invite you to attend the

Mass of Ordination and Installation

of

The Most Reverend Michael F. Olson, S.T.D.

as

Fourth Bishop of Fort Worth

Wednesday, the twenty-ninth of January, two thousand fourteen

two o’clock in the afternoon

Fort Worth Convention Center

1201 Houston Street, Fort Worth, Texas

PRINCIPAL CONSECRATOR

The Most Reverend Gustavo García-Siller, M.Sp.S.

Archbishop of San Antonio

PRINCIPAL CO-CONSECRATOR

The Most Reverend Kevin W. Vann, J.C.D.

Bishop of Orange

PRINCIPAL CO-CONSECRATOR

The Most Reverend Joseph A. Fiorenza

Archbishop Emeritus of Galveston-Houston

IN THE PRESENCE OF

The Most Reverend Carlo Maria Viganò, J.U.D.

Apostolic Nuncio to the United States

Live Stream: The Mass of Ordination and Installation will be live streamed on the Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth website, beginning at 1:30 p.m., Wednesday, January 29, 2014.



We thank thee, O God, for the spiritual nature of man. We are in nature but we live above nature. Help us never to let anybody or any condition to pull us so low as to cause us to hate. Give us strength to love our enemies and to do good to those who despitefully use us and persecute us. We thank thee for thy Church, founded upon thy Word, that challenges us to do more than sing and pray, but go out and work as though the very answer to our prayers depended on us and not upon thee. Then, finally, help us to realize that man was created to shine like stars and live on through all eternity. Keep us, we pray, in perfect peace; help us to walk together, pray together, sing together, and live together until that day when all God’s children, Black, White, Red, and Yellow will rejoice in our common band of humanity in the kingdom of our Lord and of our God, we pray. Amen.

Excerpted from:  "Thou, Dear God”: Prayers that Open Hearts and Spirits