Providence, R.I., Dec 19, 2009 / 16:17 pm
Bishop Robert C. Evans was ordained the seventh auxiliary bishop for the Diocese of Providence on Tuesday afternoon. Among those in attendance at the ordination Mass were his ailing mother Lolita and his friends in the priesthood from throughout the country, the Rhode Island Catholic reports.
Bishop of Providence Thomas J. Tobin delivered the homily, explaining that a bishop is anointed to be a prophet “imbued with the Word of God and commissioned to preach that word to the Church and the world.”
The “Word of God” is “sometimes comforting, sometimes directing, and sometimes challenging” and should be preached “fearlessly and boldly” in season and out of season.
He encouraged Bishop Evans to take to heart the example of the Virgin Mary.