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It is the saints — led by Mary — who continue to pray for us that we might be open to see and believe the way to eternal life that is in Christ, revealed by his word, lived by the saints, proclaimed in the magisterium of the Church and celebrated in the sacraments that enable us, by God’s grace, to embody our fullness as children of God.
Christ has faced death and triumphed over it so we might not fear the call to follow him through the way of the cross and dying to self.
The Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham has announced that Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, former Bishop of Rochester, was recently received into the Catholic Church.
It is only by letting go, and letting God act in our daily struggle, that we are able to have a foretaste of the manifold beauty of the life of the kingdom, and receive the riches promised by Christ.
Divine Worship: Daily Office (Commonwealth Edition) contains Morning and Evening Prayer from the Anglican prayer book tradition, now approved for use in the Catholic Church through the Personal Ordinariates. This post is a potted précis of how to pray the Offices, either in a short form or in the Prayer Book tradition. It’s for laypeople: clergy know what to do!
The sacrament of marriage provides one of the main models for, and language of, understanding the relationship between God and humanity in the covenantal promise, between Christ and his bride the Church, and the final consummation between heaven and earth in the renewed creation.
Today
Tomorrow is the Fourth Sunday of Advent. Join us for Mass celebrated according to Divine Worship at 11:30am at Christ the King Church, Eastbourne. The pew sheet is available at the link in the image below: notices will be added in due course. Details of Christmas services are available on the website at eastbourneordinariate.org.uk/archives/6948
In those days: Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country, to a town in Judah, and she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the baby leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit, and she exclaimed with a loud cry, ‘Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!
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