Tag Archives: Catholic Church

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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Chaplains to the faithful – or missionaries to convert England?

Posted on 02/01/2014 by Scott Anderson

“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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Celebrating the Ordinariate liturgy – some initial thoughts

Posted on 06/12/2013 by Scott Anderson

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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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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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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