St. Leo Oratory

02/03/2026

01/19/2026

Video of Christmas Midnight Mass 205 at St. Leo Oratory. Video credit: https://www.mascarivalephoto.com/

01/04/2026

We're glad to be hosting our Canons participating in the FOCUS Catholic's SEEK 2026 conference in Columbus.

12/26/2025

Merry Christmas from St. Leo Oratory! "Grant us, we beseech Thee, almighty God, that we on whom the new light of Thine Incarnate Word is poured, may show forth in our works that brightness, which now doth illuminate our mind by faith." (Collect, Christmas Mass at Dawn)

12/03/2025

Last week, two new oblates of the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest received the cassock from the Prior General, Msgr. Gilles Wach, at Kloster Maria Engelport, one the apostolates in Germany. One of them is from Columbus and served Holy Mass at St. Leo Oratory. Congratulations to the new oblates and their families! Let's keep them in our prayers and pray also for many more vocations!

12/01/2025

At St. Leo Oratory, we were honored to receive a visit from our Bishop, Most Reverend Earl Fernandes, on Saturday, November 29 for the opening of our Solemn Novena in preparation for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. We are grateful to Bishop Fernandes for visiting our Oratory community, preaching the Novena sermon, and giving Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament during the Novena devotions.

11/15/2025

Happy Feast of St. Josaphat, and a warm welcome to the newest apostolate in the Institute of Christ the King's growing spiritual family! Bishop Brennan, then Bishop of Columbus, established our own St. Leo Oratory as an apostolate of the Institute five years ago, so it is a particular joy for us to see that the Institute can be of service to him now in his current Diocese of Brooklyn at St. Josaphat Oratory.

Happy and blessed Feast of St. Josaphat! At the invitation of the Most Reverend Robert Brennan, Bishop of Brooklyn, the Institute has been entrusted with St. Josaphat’s in the Bayside neighborhood of Queens. Last Sunday, the Prior General of the Institute, Monsignor Wach, celebrated the solemn Mass at the newly established Oratory. Canon Andreas Hellmann, who celebrated his 25th anniversary of priestly ordination earlier this year, has been appointed as the Oratory’s Rector by Bishop Brennan.

at the Oratory of St. Josaphat

11/14/2025

Canons of the Institute of Christ the King's U.S. Province during this year's convocation at Epiphany of Our Lord Shrine - Tampa, Florida

Please pray for these priests! May God continue to guide them in their endeavor to bring souls to Christ.

11/12/2025

Requiem Mass at St. Leo Oratory for the deceased of the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest: priests, sisters, oblates and lay members of the Society of the Sacred.

11/11/2025

All Souls' Day at St. Leo Oratory.

11/09/2025

During the month of November, let us continue to pray for the faithful departed. "Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis."

10/31/2025

Feast of Christ the King on October 26, 2025. Christus vincit! Christus regnat! Christus imperat!