{"id":277874,"date":"2026-09-03T04:28:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T04:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/277874\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T04:28:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T04:28:28","slug":"red-mass-of-the-holy-spirit-set-for-oct-19-at-st-john-the-evangelist-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/277874\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Mass of the Holy Spirit Set for Oct. 19 at St. John the Evangelist Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By CatholicPhilly Staff \u2022 Posted September 2, 2026 <\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-228929 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/red.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" height=\"465\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The 2026 Red Mass of the Holy Spirit will be celebrated at 5:15 p.m. Monday, Oct. 19, at St. John the Evangelist Church, 21 S. 13th St., Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>The annual Mass calls upon the guidance of the Holy Spirit for the legal community of Metropolitan Philadelphia as the new judicial year begins.<\/p>\n<p>Retired Auxiliary Bishop Michael Fitzgerald, a member of the Pennsylvania Bar, will preside, and Father Sean Bransfield, chancellor of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and a canon lawyer, will deliver the homily.<\/p>\n<p>The Mass provides an opportunity for prayer, reflection, fellowship and a renewed commitment to justice.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the legal community and the faithful are invited to attend.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/stjohnsphilly.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stjohnsphilly.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By CatholicPhilly Staff \u2022 Posted September 2, 2026 The 2026 Red Mass of the Holy Spirit will be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116375,69,71,70,20863,116376,116377],"class_list":["post-277874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-most-reverend-michael-fitzgerald","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-red-mass","tag-red-mass-of-the-holy-spirit","tag-reverend-sean-bransfield"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277874","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=277874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}