Archbishop Celebrates Mass at the Basilica

On September 25 at 10 am, Prague Archbishop Dominik Duka celebrated Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine with over 500 people from the community, including a group of Czech-Americans who traveled from New York to meet the Archbishop. The Mass celebrated the 170th birthday of Czech composer Antonín Dvořák as well as the 200th anniversary of the year of St. John Nepomucene Neumann's birth. During the Mass, the choir of the Basilica sang Dvořák's Mass in D Major under the direction of Peter Latona. The Catholic Standard wrote the "Mass celebrates the best of the Czech culture." Click here to read an article about the Mass in The Catholic Standard. Czech Television also reported on the event, click here to read the article (in Czech only).