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Holiness and Love

Thursday 9 June 2011

“This Church who, ‘clasping sinners to her bosom, [is] at once holy and always in need of purification, [and] follows constantly the path of penance and renewal.’” Lumen Gentium 8§3. This quote from the second Vatican council touches on a two-fold reality that anyone, journeying into the heart of God, will encounter. The first reality […]

Thoughts on the Passion

Thursday 9 June 2011

Recently, I had one of those moments where things I had been holding, in different parts of my brain, suddenly seemed to fit together. I was writing an assignment on the part of the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises where a person contemplates the crucifixion. Part of this is to be with Christ as he suffers in […]

Journeying on

Wednesday 11 May 2011

Having been received, confirmed and some baptised, in a variety of combinations, we are now Roman Catholics and members of the Ordinariate. Yet I am wary of triumphantly pronouncing that the journey is now over. We have moved from the Anglican Church that, how ever problematic it has been, was our home. We have moved […]

Three new deacons

Thursday 5 May 2011

Diaconal Ordination of Revd Neil Chatfield, Revd Geoff Cook and Revd Ronald Robinson within the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, by Kieran, Bishop of Arundel & Brighton, in his Cathedral Church of Our Lady and S Philip Howard, attended by the Ordinary Mgr Keith Newton. Feast of the English Martyrs, 4 May 2011. Revd […]

Welcomed home

Friday 22 April 2011

The new members of the Catholic Church were pictured before the Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Maundy Thursday. Fr Raglan, parish priest at Our Lady of Ransom with S Agnes, is authorised to confirm, so we were privileged to be able to celebrate joining the Church in the local church with those who […]

Why, What and How?

Wednesday 20 April 2011

There have been many questions asked about the Ordinariate. Here I have attempted to answer some of them: The Anglican Church was unique among the post-reformation churches. It was reformed but also wanted to hold on to the catholic orders of bishops, priests and deacons. Those twin traditions of catholic and reformed have shaped its […]