Tag Archives: Ordinariate

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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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English music & English Churches – trying to define the patrimony

Posted on 09/06/2021 by Scott Anderson

Between the end of the 19th century until the 1970’s English music enjoyed a period of greatness perhaps not seen since the time of Purcell, maybe even since the flowering of English music under the Tudors. Composers such as Elgar, … Continue reading →

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Were we really Catholics?

Posted on 29/03/2021 by Scott Anderson

Soon after the vote in the General Synod of the Church of England in 1992 to ordain women to the priesthood, a colleague of mine expressed his sense of anger: “Once I was a bitter Catholic; now I am just … Continue reading →

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Geoffrey Kirk

Posted on 27/04/2020 by Scott Anderson

Yes, I was always a bit scared of Geoffrey. I had no reason to be as he was always attentive and charming. The first real personal contact I had with him happened like this. I had noticed the growing use … 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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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 setting of the Liturgy

Posted on 20/02/2015 by Scott Anderson

In the 1930’s the Kelham Fathers built the Great Chapel for their monastery and theological college near Newark-on-Trent in Nottinghamshire. The architect was Charles Clayton Thompson, and to my knowledge he built no other churches. Yet it is one of … Continue reading →

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