Posts by Andrew Leach

Advent begins: Come, Lord, come!

Monday 2 December 2013

The beginning of Advent was marked by the Advent Carol Service at S Agnes. This was the third occasion the Ordinariate has celebrated what is a treasure of Anglican patrimony, and it was attended by a record congregation — around 100 — of members of the communities based at all three churches in the parish. […]

Hair today and … more tomorrow

Friday 8 November 2013

Support Fr Neil and Our Lady’s Tash Team this Movember in raising funds for men’s health programme investment; raising awareness and understanding of the health risks men face and how to act on them; provide men living with prostate or testicular cancer with the care needed to be physically and mentally well. Movember: Changing the […]

Synod of Bishops on the Family 2014

Sunday 3 November 2013

Family life will be the focus of an extraordinary general session of the Synod of Bishops that will meet at the Vatican between 5–19 October 2014. Around 150 Synod fathers will take part in the meeting to discuss the “pastoral challenges of the family in the context of evangelization.” It is expected to last two […]

A new liturgy for the Ordinariate

Sunday 29 September 2013

History will be made in the Catholic Church on 10 October when a new text for the Mass which includes traditional Anglican words is officially introduced in London. The text has been devised for use by the Personal Ordinariates — the structures established by Pope Benedict XVI which allow former Anglicans who wish to enter […]

Anglican Patrimony in the Ordinariate

Friday 16 August 2013

David Murphy, the group administrator for the Ordinariate Support Group for Expats in Europe, has written with a request for assistance: We are in the process of commencing an occasional series of posts on “Examples of Anglican Patrimony in the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham”. Many critics of the UK Ordinariate have suggested […]

Handling a Mystery

Saturday 22 June 2013

One of the purposes of the Ordinariate — even its principal object — was to allow Anglicans to join the Church bringing with them those parts of their patrimony which were not contrary to the Faith. In order to be able to do that, it’s necessary to examine each aspect of former practice and test […]