Tag Archives: Catholic Church

Back to Church at Christmas: opportunities for evangelisation

Posted on 13/01/2015 by Scott Anderson

There is  a story told of an Anglican priest who surveyed the substantial congregation which had turned up for the Evening Service on Harvest Sunday (it was some years ago when they still did).  Marching up to the tabernacle and … Continue reading →

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Our Church Schools are worth fighting for

Posted on 16/12/2014 by Scott Anderson

Why does a section of our society – including some politicians and some teachers – get so angry about Church Schools? Last Saturday’s Question Time had one of the panel asserting that we are a secular society and there is … Continue reading →

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The music of Advent

Posted on 30/11/2014 by Scott Anderson

  Compared with the carols and hymns of Christmas, the music of Advent is less well known. Yet it is among the loveliest – and most singable – of the Church’s year.  As part of the restrained liturgy of this … Continue reading →

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What shall we sing at Mass?

Posted on 26/09/2014 by Scott Anderson

I have been re-reading “Anglicans and Catholics in Communion”, a collection of articles and essays published by the Catholic League in August 2010. Looking back even over four years at the hopes and fears for the Ordinariates is fascinating, instructive, … Continue reading →

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Ordinariate Groups: Mission Stations – or Rest Homes

Posted on 02/06/2014 by Scott Anderson

Those of us who had the pleasure and privilege of knowing the late Bishop Brian Masters (Area Bishop of Edmonton in the Anglican diocese of London) have a fund of his witty  – and very much to the point – … Continue reading →

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That they may be one

Posted on 26/04/2014 by Scott Anderson

In the parish lounge at Most Precious Blood, the Ordinariate church in South London, we are building a collection of photographs. They are images of Popes and Archbishops of Canterbury, meeting each other: they are a constant reminders of the … Continue reading →

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I vow to thee my country

Posted on 30/03/2014 by Scott Anderson

The unravelling of the relationship between the Church and the State in Britain has accelerated rapidly in the last thirty years. But the process has been going on rather longer than we care to remember. I don’t mean that disestablishment … Continue reading →

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Ordinariate Pilgrims of faith

Posted on 18/03/2014 by Scott Anderson

At the beginning of Lent around 500 people were present at Southwark Cathedral for their Rite of Election. Among these 500 are Catechumens – those who have come from unbelief and are to be baptised at Easter – and Candidates … Continue reading →

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Anglican Patrimony: the voice of the laity (2)

Posted on 27/02/2014 by Scott Anderson

Fr Philip North has described the General Synod of the Church of England as “clumsy, dysfunctional and dangerous”. As an Anglican – and an Anglo-Catholic – Fr North has reason to use these harsh terms, given the way that the … Continue reading →

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A Tale of Two Ordinariates

Posted on 18/01/2014 by Scott Anderson

I have been really grateful to those people who have sent me in short descriptions of the life and mission of their Ordinariate groups. What it reveals is what I have suspected: that there are significant differences between England and … Continue reading →

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