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Archbishop Henning to receive special vestment from Pope Leo XIV Sunday in Rome
Henning will be one of eight archbishops from the United States, and 48 from around the world, who will receive the pallium from the pope during a 9:30 a.m. Mass in St. Peter's Square, the archdiocese said.
CatholicTV will air the Mass live at 3:30 a.m. Boston time and then rebroadcast it on Sunday at 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., according to the statement.
The pallium, a narrow white band with black crosses, is mostly worn when an archbishop is principal celebrant of a Mass for a special occasion, such as ordinations, confirmations, and church dedications, among other events, the archdiocese said.
Separately, the archdiocese announced a special concert series starting on Sunday to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the
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Gavin Klein, a junior organ scholar at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, will perform the first concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, the archdiocese said.
Built by the prominent 19th-century Boston firm E. and G.G. Hook & Hastings, the cathedral's organ is the largest surviving instrument from the company, according to the church's
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Its 5,292 pipes — ranging from pencil-thin flutes to bass pipes over 32 feet tall — fill a large room at the rear of the cathedral, according to Richard Clark, music director at the cathedral.
Though the organ has been updated to operate electronically rather than manually, the historic instrument has been tonally preserved, meaning 'the people who hear the organ now are hearing the same beautiful sounds that people heard when the cathedral first opened in 1875,' Clark said in an email to the Globe.
Other recitals to celebrate the organ's milestone will feature performances by Leo D. Abbott, former director of music at the cathedral, who was instrumental in the organ's restoration; James Kennerley, municipal organist of Portland, Maine; and Rosalind Mohnsen, organist at Immaculate Conception in Malden, the archdiocese said.
The dates and times of those concerts will be announced later, the archdiocese said.
A view of some of the pipes inside the organ that was built in 1875 for the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in the South End.
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