Tag Archives: Catholic Church

The Ordinariate – eight years on from that article …

Posted on 02/03/2024 by Scott Anderson

While clearing out in preparation for my move back to the UK later this year, I came across an article in the Catholic Herald, written in August 2016 by Damian Thompson entitled ‘The Ordinariate Mk II.’ It seems to me … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | 2 Comments

Synodality and the General Synod

Posted on 12/10/2023 by Scott Anderson

Catholics of the Ordinariate (i.e. former Anglicans) may be forgiven for their nervousness about the process of Synodality which is being encouraged by Pope Francis. The actions of the General Synod of the Church of England in the 1990’s and … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Language and translation

Posted on 01/09/2023 by Scott Anderson

Just after writing my last post I came across this ‘Translator’s note’ at the beginning of a 1954 edition of ‘Introduction to the Devout Life’ by St François de Sales. Fr Michael Day, an Oratorian, writes: The present translation into … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

The language of liturgy (2)

Posted on 24/08/2023 by Scott Anderson

It was decided early on that the Ordinariates, created to receive Anglicans wishing to enter into the full communion of the Catholic Church, should have liturgical books which expressed their Anglican patrimony. Divine Worship Daily Office (Commonwealth Edition) expresses it … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

The rise and fall (and rise?) of the Prayer Book Office

Posted on 18/04/2023 by Scott Anderson

The English Prayer Book of 1549 introduced to the people of England a new daily Office. The monastic Breviary with its eight-fold daily Office (upon which pattern the Breviary recited, at least since the 11th century, by the secular clergy … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Liturgical colours and the rhythm of the Christian year

Posted on 13/10/2022 by Scott Anderson

One of my hopes for the Ordinariate in the UK is that it would introduce into the Catholic Church something of the Liturgical Revival which overtook the Church of England from the end of the 19th century until the 1960’s. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Pope Francis and the Extraordinary Form

Posted on 02/08/2021 by Scott Anderson

Like many Catholics I was at first taken aback by the Pope’s recent Motu Proprio, Traditionis Custodes – On the Use of the Roman Liturgy Prior to the Reform of 1970. I had been aware of problems around the use of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Renewing the Catholic Parish

Posted on 19/07/2021 by Scott Anderson

In 2009 a group of Anglo-Catholic clergy in the Diocese of London, encouraged by the then Bishop of Fulham, now Monsignor John Broadhurst, met to discuss a plan for parish renewal. I have kept the aide mémoire circulated after their … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

New French Missal

Posted on 28/06/2021 by Scott Anderson

At long last the Catholic Church in France (and the other francophone countries) is to have its new translation of the Missal, which comes into use on Advent Sunday 2021. At last I shall not be the only priest in … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Communion on the tongue – why the controversy?

Posted on 23/06/2021 by Scott Anderson

Last Sunday I was confronted at the moment of Holy Communion by a young woman insisting on receiving the consecrated host on the tongue. Currently this is not permitted in France, as part of the COVID precautions. In the liturgical … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , | 2 Comments