{"id":160636,"date":"2026-04-08T17:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/160636\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T17:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:36:10","slug":"chrism-mass-at-the-cathedral-basilica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/160636\/","title":{"rendered":"Chrism Mass at the Cathedral Basilica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By CatholicPhilly Staff \u2022 Posted April 8, 2026 <\/p>\n<p>Archbishop Nelson J. P\u00e9rez celebrated the annual Chrism Mass on April 2 at the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul in Center City, Philadelphia. Priests from across the Archdiocese of Philadelphia gathered to concelebrate the Mass with the archbishop and to renew their priestly promises.<\/p>\n<p>During the liturgy, Archbishop P\u00e9rez blessed the Oil of Catechumens and the Oil of the Sick and consecrated the sacred Chrism. These holy oils will be distributed to parishes throughout the archdiocese and used in the celebration of the Sacraments during the coming year. (Photos by Sarah Webb)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By CatholicPhilly Staff \u2022 Posted April 8, 2026 Archbishop Nelson J. P\u00e9rez celebrated the annual Chrism Mass on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2387,15571,72542,72543,72544,72545,72546,72547,72548,69,71,70,26747],"class_list":{"0":"post-160636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-archbishop-nelson-j-perez","9":"tag-cathedral-basilica-of-saints-peter-and-paul","10":"tag-chrism","11":"tag-chrism-mass","12":"tag-holy-oils","13":"tag-holy-thursday","14":"tag-oil-of-catechumens","15":"tag-oil-of-chrism","16":"tag-oil-of-the-sick","17":"tag-philadelphia","18":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","19":"tag-philadelphia-news","20":"tag-priests"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}