By Daily Press staff
The Reverend Dr. Lloyd J. Ogilvie, former chaplain of the U.S. Senate and an internationally recognized author and speaker, will return to St. Monica Catholic Church to deliver the homily at Good Friday services in both the afternoon and evening.
Dr. Ogilvie will speak at the 12:15 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. services, which will include the reading of the Passion, veneration of the cross and communion. He also spoke at last year’s services, as part of the parish’s ecumenical outreach.
Non-Catholics as well as St. Monica parishioners and other Catholics are invited to join the services.
Dr. Ogilvie, who has given talks around the world and is the author of more than 50 books, served as Senate chaplain from 1995 to 2003, a period that included a presidential impeachment, the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the launch of the Iraq war. As chaplain, he served 6,000 legislative workers on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
A Senate resolution passed in January of this year honored Dr. Ogilvie as “someone upon whom Democrats and Republicans, men and women of different religious faiths, can count as a sympathetic and trusted advisor.”
Dr. Ogilvie, who served earlier as senior pastor of Hollywood Presbyterian Church, is president of Leadership Unlimited. Sunrise service led by local pastor
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on March 24, 2005. Read the original PDF.