02-24-2013, 11:21 PM
So a close friend of mine, whose son attends the prep school at St. Michael's Abbey in Orange County, has informed me that the newly installed bishop, the Most Reverend Kevin Vann, has been spending time with the Norbertine canons at their abbey since coming to California and trying to learn from them the TLM and aspects of their own unique liturgy. It also seems that he may have taken the abbot there as his confessor as well. The canons there feel that changes may be in the wind for the diocese! As a side note, Bishop Brown, whom Bishop Vann succeeded, visited the abbey all of ONE TIME during his tenure. Another good sign for California!