Archives for August 2013

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 […]

Philip’s Ordination to the Transitional Diaconate.

Saturday 17 August 2013

For all of those who were unable to make Deacon Philip’s Ordination at Our Lady of the Assumption, Warwick Street in London, here are some photos. These were taken by Jenny’s brother.            

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 […]

Greyfriars: Historic Mass

Sunday 11 August 2013

In the sunshine, yesterday, priests and laity from Ordinaraite groups along the south coast gathered for mass at Greyfriars church in Priory Park, Chichester. Built in 1269, the chapel was originally a Franciscan Priory until the dissolution of the monasteries. Since then it has been the town hall, a court building, used for the army […]