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Tag Archives: Ordinariate
A Tale of Two Ordinariates
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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Tagged America, Catholic Church, Church Planting, Evangelisation, Ordinariate
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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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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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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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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
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
L J White and his music
I was coming back from the Ordinariate Pilgrimage to Walsingham with a couple of friends who have been Catholics for years. They had enjoyed the day greatly, and in particular the music and the hearty hymn singing. I would not … Continue reading
Sing we of the blessed Mother
Many Anglicans know the hymn, ‘Her virgin eyes saw God incarnate born’. Some forty years ago I found and memorised this verse: I think that it is by Thomas Ken and belongs with that hymn. The verse teaches both the immaculate conception of Mary, and … Continue reading
The Ordinariate and the New Evangelisation
You are the light of the world. A city built on a hilltop cannot be hidden… your light must shine in people’s sight, so that, seeing your good works, they may give praise to your Father in heaven. Matthew 5:14-16 … Continue reading
Give thanks with a grateful heart
On February 2nd 2012 I was received into the Catholic Church through the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. I was 62 years of age and had been ordained in the Church of England for 37 years. I have the … Continue reading
