Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham

PRESSPRESS RELEASE RELEASE 1027 May October 20212 2013

SeventeenHistory will men be made were inordained the Catholic for service Church in othen Thursday Personal 10 Ordinariate October when of Our a Ladynew textof Walsingham for the Mass in Londonwhich includ today.es traditional Anglican words is officially introduced in London.

AtThe the new largest text singlehas been ordination devised in for the use UK by for Ordinariates many years, throughout the men - allthe former English-speaking Anglican clergy world - were as a ordainedway of putting as deacons into practice at the request Pope Benedict of Monsignor XVI’s visionKeith Newton,of allowing the former Ordinary Anglicans of the Personal who wish to Ordinariateenter the full of communionOur Lady of ofWalsingham, the Catholic by Church Auxiliary to doBishop so whilst of Westminster retaining aspects and former of their Anglican, spiritual Bishop Alan Hopes. and liturgical traditions. Benedict XVI described these as “precious gifts” and “treasures to be shared”.

TheThe celebrationnew liturgy marks- the work the second of a special year commissionof ordinations established for the Ordinariate, by Rome whichand now was approved established by thein 2011Holy Seeto allow - includes Anglicans material to enter from into the the Anglican full communion Book of Common of the Catholic Prayer Church (1662) whilstas well retaining as the Roman essentialRite. It will elements be unveiled of their with liturgical a Mass and followed spiritual by heritage.a media launch at the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption and St Gregory, Warwick Street, Soho.

AfterThe Mass the service will be Mgr celebrated Newton by reflected the Ordinary on the ofday, the saying, Ordinariate “It is wonderfulof Our Lady to ofsee Walsingham these men ,ordained asMonsignor deacons Keithfor service Newton, in the and Catholic the preacher Church, will within be Monsignor the Ordinariate. Andrew As Burnham,we continue Assistant to grow to and the beginOrdinary our andwork a ofmember faithful ofwitness the commission to the Gospel, which it is devised important the for Use us. Music,all to be drawn reminded entirely of the from charism the of the Deacon: proclamation, service, and Christian charity”. English tradition, will include pieces by Howells, Elgar, and Bairstow.

Mgr Burnham said: “For some time, the Ordinariate has had its own liturgy, approved by the Holy AmongstSee, for marriages those ordained and funerals were former and the Anglican Customary clergy of from Our Scotland,Lady of Walsingham Darlington, alreadyPortsmouth, provides a Northamptondaily office in and the Oxford.Anglican tradition. But the introduction of this new Ordinariate Use is very important because it means that we now have our own distinctive liturgy for the Mass which brings to the Roman rite beautiful Anglican words which have been hallowed for generations. It gives the TheOrdinariate homily was unity given and bya corporate Mgr Andrew identity. Burnham,” former Anglican bishop of Ebbsfleet and now an Assistant to the Ordinary. The Roman Rite in both its ordinary and extraordinary forms remains available for use by Ordinariate

priests and there will be no requirement for them to adopt the Ordinariate Use. However, all TheOrdinariate ordination clergy brings will the be totalexpected number to familiariseof clergy in themselvesthe Personal with Ordinariate it. Some topriests nearly are 80. expected A further to groupuse it regularly,of diaconal while ordinations others –is especiallyexpected overin parishes the summer. with a large concentration of “cradle” Catholics in the congregation – may only wish to use it from time to time.