Posts by Andrew Leach

The Ordinary speaks on Ukraine

Saturday 26 February 2022

Statement by The Right Reverend Mgr Keith Newton, Ordinary of The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, on the situation in Ukraine

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Synod 2021–2023

Saturday 29 January 2022

The Ordinary, Msgr Keith Newton, introduces the start of the process in the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.

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Announcement of Easter and the Moveable Feasts 2022

Saturday 8 January 2022

The announcement of the year’s liturgical calendar, following an ancient tradition, is made after the Gospel reading in the Mass of the Epiphany.

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Blessing of the House at Epiphany

Saturday 8 January 2022

It’s customary to bless the house each year at Epiphany, with chalk and water which has been blessed for the purpose. You may have been able to obtain some; it’s generally distributed after Mass at Epiphany, and many churches make it freely available during the days afterward. Even if you’re isolating and can’t get it […]

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The language of the Ordinariate

Saturday 18 December 2021

The language of Divine Worship is one of the most obvious parts of the patrimony we have inherited and brought into the Church. Fr Stephen Hill is an Ordinariate priest and doctoral student at the University of Vienna who is undertaking a research project on the language of Divine Worship and its pastoral implications. The […]

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Divine Worship : Daily Office — A very short guide

Tuesday 12 October 2021

Divine Worship: Daily Office (Commonwealth Edition) contains Morning and Evening Prayer from the Anglican prayer book tradition, now approved for use in the Catholic Church through the Personal Ordinariates. This post is a potted précis of how to pray the Offices, either in a short form or in the Prayer Book tradition. It’s for laypeople: clergy know what to do!

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