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Welcome back Heather!

Monday 19 August 2013

Yesterday our intention at Mass is for the safe return of Sharon and Graham’s daughter, Heather. She has been working in an Orphanage in Malawi, with Project Trust since last summer. Having seen her amazing fundraising efforts the year before and followed her progress this year it is good to see her home safe and […]

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 […]

“Do you wish to see her?”

Thursday 15 August 2013

Today is the Assumption of Our Lady. The reading, today from the Customary of OLW (the Ordinariate office book) was from Revelations of Divine Love by Lady Julian of Norwich: “And with this same appearance of mirth and joy our good Lord looked down on his right and brought to mind where our Lady stood […]

A Flash mob wedding?

Tuesday 13 August 2013

A little while ago a video of a wedding went viral on the Internet. The vicar had organised a ‘flash mob’ to perform a dance at the end of the ceremony. The reaction was mixed but many of those were positive about it thought those who didn’t were old fashioned or lacking a sense of […]

Different Types of Parents.

Friday 9 August 2013

Last month, while staying with friends, Neil celebrated mass on the feast of St Joachim and St Anne. He introduced the mass by talking about how St Joachim and St Anne were parents to Our Lady and asked us to consider the parents we have. Our parents are the first teachers of their children in […]

It is good to be here.

Tuesday 6 August 2013

Today is the feast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord. I was struck by the reading from the Saints, this morning when Neil and I prayed the office together. Coming from a sermon by St Anastasius, I particularly noticed that the disciples, in experiencing the Transfiguration, were being called by God to enter into the […]