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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
As my Lenten journey for 2011 draws to an end and my reception into the Ordinariate begins I have been reflecting on some of the events since Ash Wednesday. It seems like half a lifetime ago that we sat for the first time in St Agnes to have the first of many lessons of instruction […]
Today
Tomorrow is the Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity, and Mass will be celebrated according to Divine Worship at 11:30am at Christ the King Church Langney. We’d love to see you! The pew sheet is available at the link below. We’re using the Missa de Sancta Maria Magdalena this weekend, the music for which is in the printed Mass booklets. This Sunday, we’re starting a Children’s Liturgy!
Jesus said to the chief priests and the elders of the people, ‘What do you think? A man had two sons. And he went to the first and said, “Son, go and work in the vineyard today.” And he answered, “I will not”, but afterwards he changed his mind and went. And he went to the other son and said the same. And he answered, “I go, sir”, but did not go. Which of the two did the will of his father?’
Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity
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The Solemnity of Our Lady of Walsingham
From Richeldis' vision in 1061, through the trials of the Reformation, to the restoration of the Catholic Shrine and the founding of our Ordinariate in 2011, this feast carries the whole of that story with it. Today we give thanks to God for the Mother He gave us, and for the countless prayers offered at England's Nazareth through the centuries.
Small as we are, we are part of something old, faithful, and still very much alive. Happy feast day to all our brothers and sisters in the Ordinariate.
O Mary, recall the solemn moment when Jesus, thy Divine Son, dying on the Cross, confided us to thy maternal care. Thou art our Mother, we desire ever to remain thy devout children. Let us, therefore, feel the effects of thy powerful intercession with Jesus Christ. Make thy Name again glorious in that place once renowned throughout our land by thy visits, favours, and many miracles. Pray, O Holy Mother of God, for the conversion of England, restoration of the sick, consolation for the afflicted, repentance for sinners, and peace to the departed. O blessed Mother of God, O Lady of Walsingham, intercede for us. Amen.
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Tomorrow is the Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity, and Mass will be celebrated according to Divine Worship at 11:30am at Christ the King Church Langney. We’d love to see you! The pew sheet is available at the link below. We’re using the Missa de Sancta Maria Magdalena this weekend, the music for which is in the printed Mass booklets. This Sunday, Fr Neil is away leading the parish pilgrimage to Poland, and we welcome Fr Nicholas Leviseur from Saint Anselm's Roman Catholic Church in Pembury to celebrate Mass.
Jesus told his disciples this parable, ‘The kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning to hire labourers for his vineyard. After agreeing with the labourers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard. He did the same at the third, sixth, ninth and eleventh hours. And at the end of the day he paid them. When those hired about the eleventh hour came, each of them received a denarius. Now when those hired first came, they thought they would receive more, but each of them also received a denarius. And on receiving it they grumbled at the master of the house. But he replied to one of them, “Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a denarius? Take what belongs to you and go. I choose to give to this last worker as I give to you. Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity?” So the last will be first, and the first last.’
Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity
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