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Tag Archives: Catholic Church
Chaplains to the faithful – or missionaries to convert England?
“The Ordinariate will grow – God willing.” When someone said this to me recently I reflected immediately that, of course, God wills it to grow! To put it round the other way, could God ever will his Church and his … Continue reading
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Tagged Catholic Church, Church Growth, Evangelisation, Ordinariate, Renewal, Unity
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Celebrating the Ordinariate liturgy – some initial thoughts
The season of Advent has been marked by many Ordinariate groups in the UK beginning to celebrate Mass according to the Ordinariate Use. We were no exception in the Ordinariate Parish of the Most Precious Blood at Borough, in South … Continue reading
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Tagged Catholic Church, English Use, liturgy, Odinariate, Ordinariate Use
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Models for Mission in the Ordinariate
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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Tagged Catholic Church, Christianity, Church Planting, Evangelism, Fresh Expressions, growing new churches, Ordinariate, Religion
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A society which has lost its memory
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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Tagged Catholic Church, Lewis, Macaulay, media, Morse, redemption, TV
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Understanding the Ordinariate
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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Tagged Catholic Church, conservatives, liturgy, Ordinariate, progressives, TEC, traditionalists, Vatican 2
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Holy Saturday, this day of waiting
No, Easter does not banish tragedy and suffering; it does not signal the end of all our striving, the drying of our tears. Instead it takes us and shows us deep down into the heart of things where Christ is … Continue reading
A priest for the world
Once again, the world is surprised by the Catholic Church. We have a Pope, and there is a wonderful feeling of excitement. He asked us to pray for him and bowed quietly before us all – and then gave us … Continue reading
The Ordinariate: Pope Benedict’s vision of unity
In recent times the Holy Spirit has moved groups of Anglicans to petition repeatedly and insistently to be received into full Catholic communion individually as well as corporately. The Apostolic See has responded favourably to such petitions. Indeed, the successor … Continue reading
Sunday in France
I regard myself as fortunate in that, when I am in France on a Sunday, I can walk to Mass in the next village: every Sunday at 11 am. I am told that in one parish in this Diocese the … Continue reading
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Tagged Catholic Church, Charismatic, France, Priesthood, Renewal, Unity
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Mother of the Incarnate Christ
A Thanksgiving for the Virgin’s Part in the Scheme of Redemption from an Anglican priest & poet of the early 17th century For that fair blessed Mother-maid, Whose flesh redeem’d us; That she-Cherubin, Which unlock’d Paradise, and made One … Continue reading
Ordinariate Pilgrim 