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REGINA: How are laypeople getting involved?
FR DE MALLERAY: The preparation of the ordinations gave our congregation an opportunity to be involved in various ways: preparing the canopy for the Archbishop, rehearsing the ceremony and the chant, creating magnificent flower compositions, organising the food and drinks for hundreds of visitors and, last but not least, providing accommodation for nearly thirty clerics.
REGINA: A huge day, no doubt.
FR DE MALLERAY: Yes. After a meal for three hundred, newly ordained Fr Alex Stewart (who begins his ministry at St Paul Minneapolis) presided at Vespers. The following day, after his first Solemn High Mass, Fr Stewart led the first Corpus Christi procession across town organised in Warrington for decades.