Houston, Texas, Mar 30, 2008 / 15:22 pm
The "stunning" Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart will be dedicated in Houston by Cardinal Daniel DiNardo next Wednesday, ABC affiliate KTRK reports.
"It is as though, in an analogy, we are baptizing the building," Cardinal DiNardo said, describing the consecration of the new cathedral.
The cardinal also explained how he will dedicate the altar:
"I will take the oil of chrism, which is a type of holy oil, olive oil mixed with perfume, and pour it, literally, all over the altar, and it will be spread all over the altar as a sign of its dedication. Then we will take that same chrism and we will anoint twelve places in the building, symbolic of the twelve apostles, the foundations of the Church."