Posts by Andrew Leach

Called to be One: the Video

Thursday 11 September 2014

A feature of Called to be One nationwide was the video presentation featuring the Ordinary, Msgr Keith Newton, and clergy and laity of the Ordinariate. It’s designed to answer a number of frequently-asked questions which you may also have had in your mind. It’s in two parts. Called to be One : Part 1 Called […]

Called to be One

Saturday 30 August 2014

Called to be One is an exploration day designed for people who are not currently members of the Ordinariate but who are interested in the vision for truth and unity in communion with the successor of Peter which it offers, and who wish to learn more about it. Ordinariate groups across the country are organising […]

The Ordinary writes on the Assisted Dying Bill

Thursday 17 July 2014

The Assisted Dying Bill has its Second Reading in the House of Lords on Friday 18 July. If it became law it would make incitement to suicide routine in our society, thereby putting pressure on the most vulnerable to see themselves as a burden to society. The Church’s teaching is clear: that human life, from […]

Week of Guided Prayer 6–13 July

Friday 2 May 2014

A week of guided prayer — a sort of “retreat at home” — is being offered to members of all the communities at St Agnes in July. We have a page of details and a form to sign up. Because arrangements have to be made with prayer guides from outside the parish, there’s a deadline […]

Two new Saints of the Church

Sunday 27 April 2014

The enrolment of new saints happens at the start of the Canonisation Mass, so that the newly-recognised saints are included in the Canon of the Mass and acknowledged throughout the celebration. At the Mass, the reading from 1 Peter 1:3–9 was read in Polish. The Order of Service has been published by the Vatican, and […]

The Ordinary’s Easter Message

Thursday 17 April 2014

The Ordinary, the Rt Revd Msgr Keith Newton PA, published his Easter message on Maundy Thursday. In her liturgy from Palm Sunday until Easter Day, the Church gives us the opportunity not only to hear the story of the Lord’s passion, but also the experience of participating in it. We are there, watching with excitement, […]