There were joint festivities for fans of Blessed Oscar Romero last Saturday as a National Mass of Thanksgiving for his beatification in May was celebrated on what would have been his 98th birthday. After Mass at St George’s Cathedral in Southwark, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, who wore one of the chasubles specially designed for the beatification ceremony at the Mass, led celebrations at the reception by cutting a special birthday cake. The cake cutting will have been good practi