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Pope Francis on the Ordinariates

Posted on 20/06/2013 by Scott Anderson

                “I am grateful, too, for the sincere efforts the Church of England has made to understand the reasons that led my Predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, to provide a canonical structure able to … Continue reading →

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Corpus Christi

Posted on 02/06/2013 by Scott Anderson

  We said that breaking the bread is an act of communion, an act of uniting through sharing. Thus, in the act itself, the intimate nature  of the Eucharist is already indicated: it is agape, it is love made corporeal. … Continue reading →

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The future of Anglo-Catholicism

Posted on 31/05/2013 by Scott Anderson

A nobleman went into a far country to receive kingly power… but his citizens hated him and sent an embassy after him saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’    Luke 19:12,14. Fr Philip North has better … Continue reading →

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Small groups: a model for growth through the Ordinariate

Posted on 30/05/2013 by Scott Anderson

‘Groups of Anglicans’ – that’s what ‘Anglicanorum Coetibus’ means. So ‘groups’ is an important word for us; it’s part of who we are as Catholics in the Ordinariate. As Anglicans we had lots of groups! Lent groups, home groups, Group … Continue reading →

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Models for Mission in the Ordinariate

Posted on 13/05/2013 by Scott Anderson

Last year I wrote an article for the ‘Catholic Herald’ in which I suggested that the insights of the Church Planting Movement might be useful for the newly established Ordinariate.  In particular I imagined that an Ordinariate group of lay … Continue reading →

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A society which has lost its memory

Posted on 02/05/2013 by Scott Anderson

On my recent visit to Rome I took to read ‘The Towers of Trebizond’ by Rose Macaulay. Two themes are intertwined: the hilarious world of an Anglo-Catholic mission to Turkey led by Father High Chantry-Pigg and Aunt Dot on her … Continue reading →

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The Ordinariate and the search for unity

Posted on 27/04/2013 by Scott Anderson

I wrote this article  in January for the Magazine of my local Catholic Parish. One of the parishioners told me that it had helped her to understand what the Ordinariate was all about. On 2nd February 2012 I was received … Continue reading →

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The Holy Spirit and the Council

Posted on 27/04/2013 by Scott Anderson

  In a recent homily Pope Francis spoke words which will bring joy to all who see the Holy Spirit at work in the continuing implementation of the Second Vatican Council. Indeed, the Holy Father spoke of work still incomplete … Continue reading →

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Understanding the Ordinariate

Posted on 20/04/2013 by Scott Anderson

In my time as a Catholic I have discovered two things. First, that most ‘cradle’ Catholics assume that fomer Anglicans in the Ordinariate are conservative, liturgically and otherwise.  Second, that the English in the Ordinariate do not grasp the importance of the Book of … Continue reading →

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The governance of the parish: an Anglican perspective

Posted on 17/04/2013 by Scott Anderson

Now there are varieties of gifts but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; and there are varities of working, but it is the same God who inspires them all in every one.                                                                    I … Continue reading →

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