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‘Songs of Praise’ does it again!

Posted on 03/08/2015 by Scott Anderson

Surely a trailer for ‘The Moral Maze’? But no – there it was in the ‘Sunday Telegraph’ guide to Radio and Television (Sunday 2 August 2015): Songs of Praise A woman who acted as a surrogate mother for her sister … Continue reading →

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‘Song of Praise’ and the faith of Christians

Posted on 30/07/2015 by Scott Anderson

My caller last Sunday evening was not angry but rather puzzled. “Have you watched ‘Songs of Praise’ this evening?” I explained that it was not something I often watched these days. My caller continued: “The theme was marriage, and after … Continue reading →

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A possible way into the Ordinariate liturgy

Posted on 05/07/2015 by Scott Anderson

Like many former English Anglican clergy of my generation I grew up at a time of liturgical change. I can still recite by heart some of the liturgy of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer which I learnt as a … Continue reading →

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How the liturgy bridges the centuries

Posted on 30/06/2015 by Scott Anderson

I had the privilege of presiding at Mass today in the Catholic Church where my sister and brother-in-law belong; the Parish Priest is on holiday at the moment. We celebrated the First Martyrs of the Church at Rome, honouring those who gave … Continue reading →

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Catholic – or Christian?

Posted on 30/06/2015 by Scott Anderson

Last week I stopped off, mid-morning, to have a cup of coffee in Wimbledon. The cheerful waitress asked me if I was a Catholic priest. Then she went on to tell me that she was a Catholic, but her friend … Continue reading →

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Religious education – or running scared?

Posted on 16/06/2015 by Scott Anderson

When I was at Grammar School in the 1960’s the demolition of Christianity had already started. Assemblies were perfunctory – a hymn, a Bible reading, and a couple of prayers. There was one period of Religious Education for every class, often ‘single-sex’ … Continue reading →

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Catholic attitudes on abortion

Posted on 11/06/2015 by Scott Anderson

Since my  Catholic ordination I have said Mass on a regular basis for the Good Counsel Network, which promotes Catholic pro-life teaching , and gives practical and emotional support to couples and single mothers choosing not to abort an unplanned pregnancy. … Continue reading →

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Another model for Ordinariate life and mission

Posted on 16/04/2015 by Scott Anderson

In the early days of the Ordinariate I tried to identify some ‘models’ which might be appropriate for groups with their pastors. My initial experience was of the ‘church-planting’ model, successfully applied at the Most Precious Blood at Borough in … Continue reading →

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The Sunday worship of the People of God

Posted on 21/03/2015 by Scott Anderson

I went recently to Sunday Mass outside London: a modern church, a congregation of about a hundred, and a relatively new parish priest; three hymns (two ‘trad’ and one ‘mod’) and the Kyrie, Gloria and Agnus sung to the simple … Continue reading →

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Obedience

Posted on 21/03/2015 by Scott Anderson

  I came across this story relating to Fr Benson, the founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist. SSJE, often known as the ‘Cowley Fathers’, after their Mother House in Oxford, was the first men’s religious community in the … Continue reading →

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