Posts by Andrew Leach

Ordinariate Festival 2026: Beauty, Truth and Goodness

Wednesday 6 May 2026

Details and booking for the Ordinariate Festival 2026 are available.

Bishop David, speaking to the Anglicanorum Coetibus Society

Bishop David’s Pastoral Letter: Eastertide 2026

Thursday 30 April 2026

Bishop David writes about Easter and introduces The Spring, one of whose first articles is about the Eastbourne Mission.

Alleluia!

Sunday 5 April 2026

Alleluia! Christ is risen! He is risen indeed. Alleluia!

Renaissance silver book-cover

Services on Easter Day

Wednesday 1 April 2026

Details of Easter Day 2025 — 4 April. Members of the Ordinariate and the diocesan parish worship together celebrating a single Sacred Triduum with Fr Neil at Christ the King, Langney.

Christ on the Cross, Bronzino (1503–1572) , c.1589; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nice

Services during Holy Week

Wednesday 1 April 2026

Details of Holy Week 2026 — Maundy Thursday, 2 April; Good Friday, 3 April. Members of the Ordinariate and the diocesan parish worship together celebrating a single Sacred Triduum with Fr Neil at Christ the King, Langney.

St Peter's Basilica behind the Ponte Sant’Angelo, Rome

“A Precious Gift”: Rome affirms the Ordinariate’s Mission

Thursday 26 March 2026

There is a core shared identity evident among Ordinariate communities wherever they are found, rooted in a common path of following Christ that has led them into full communion with the Catholic Church. The Bishops have identified several traits that they consider to be characteristic of the spiritual and pastoral heritage of the Ordinariates, which have been received by the DDF in Rome as a part of a worthy patrimony.