News from The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of in Scotland www.ordinariate.scot Pilgrimage 2016 Issue

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Ordinariate Pilgrimage to St Andrews ??Pilgrimage ??New Ordinariate he Ordinariate is on Monsignor Keith Newton writes: members TPilgrimage throughout the UK “Pilgrimage holds a special place ??Bl John Henry during this Jubilee Year of Mercy. in the Ordinariate of Our Lady Newman ‘miracle’ They began in North Wales at the of Walsingham. For many of us, ??New Ordinariate Shrine of St Winifrede at Holywell, pilgrimages to the shrine from Mass routine and as you read this, Mgr Keith which we take our name have been Newton, will be in Rome and central to our spiritual life. Loreto with a group of Ordinariate Pilgrims. “Our entry as members of the Ordinariate into the full communion of the Catholic ??First Ecumenical Church was in itself a pilgrimage Chapel in – travelling together, often at some Scotland personal cost, to answer God’s ??Mgr Newton’s call and to receive His grace. It is Scottish visit natural therefore that pilgrimage should be at the heart of our observance of the Year of Mercy.”

The Apostle Andrew was the first disciple to follow Jesus. He was present during the Last Supper and in the Garden at Gethsemane. He saw the Risen ??The Oratory Christ after the Resurrection ??Lent Appeal and was amongst those who ??On-line Shopping received the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. According to ??Welcome tradition, Andrew left the Holy ??Holy Land and Land after Pentecost to spread Poland the Word in Greece and Asia ??Abbey establishes This will be followed by a Minor. In 60 AD, during the pilgrimage Pilgrimage to the Shrine of St reign of Emperor Nero, while ??Tobias Parker Boniface in Crediton in , working in Patras, Andrew was ??The Prayer Book and then comes the turn of crucified on a cross in the shape and the Catholic Scotland when, on Saturday of an X on the 30th November. Church 18th June we are on Pilgrimage ??Ordinariate in St Andrews in Fife, honouring The bones of the martyred Flying Missionary! Saint Andrew the Apostle. Saint were buried in Patras and News from The Personal Ordinariate of in Scotland Page 2 remained there the city. In 1879, until 357 AD, when a year after the most were removed restoration of the to Constantinople Catholic hierarchy at the command in Scotland, of the Emperor the Constantine. of Amalfi gave Legend has it a Relic of the that the Relics of Apostle Andrew St Andrew were to the Cathedral brought to Scotland in Edinburgh. A by St Rule from second Relic was Patras but more given in 1969 by probably, they were Pope Paul VI. brought from Rome by St Augustine in Pilgrimage Programme Pope Saint John 597 AD as part of Saturday 18th June Paul II visited his great mission to 12.30pm Introduction and Devotions by St Rule’s Tower in the ruins of the Cathedral Scotland in 1982. bring the Gospel to 12.45pm Pilgrimage Walk with a Relic of Saint Andrew to St James’ Church, entering Recalling the through the Porta Sancta, the Holy Door the Anglo-Saxons. 1pm Confessions - Priests will be available to hear Confessions Parable of the 1.30pm Solemn Pilgrimage Mass and Veneration of the Relic of Saint Andrew Loaves and Fishes, In 732 the Relics 2.30pm Picnic lunch in St James’ Parish Hall (tea and coffee will be available) the Holy Father of Saint Andrew 3pm Talk on Saint Andrew and St Andrews by local historian, Colin McAllister stressed that were brought from 3.45pm Final Pilgrimage Devotion and Benediction 4pm Depart anything is possible Hexham to Fife by with God. Enter by the North Street gate to Acca who the Cathedral was seeking asylum (no entrance fee) He said: “St straight ahead to St Rule’s Tower and walk with the Pictish King Andrew gave Oengus (Angus). Jesus all that was The Relics were held available, and Jesus at Kilrymont, which miraculously fed was later renamed those five thousand St Andrews. The people, and still Relics were initially had something left housed in St Rules Church defining of the Scottish Nation. over. It is exactly the same and eventually in the great It was commonly believed with your own lives. Left alone medieval Cathedral of St that the Apostle Andrew had to face the difficult challenges Andrews. chosen the Scottish people to of life today, you feel conscious care for and honour his Relics, of your own inadequacy and In the 11th century St and so the Patron Saint, the afraid of what the future may Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Saltire Flag, the Relics and hold. I say to you this: place endowed a Ferry Service across the See of St Andrew became your lives in the hands of Jesus. the River Forth and Hostels at crucial symbols of nationhood. He will accept you and bless North and South Queensferry you, and will make such use for Pilgrims. On 14th June 1559 the great of your lives as will be beyond Cathedral at St Andrews, your greatest expectation!” Through the dark ages and including the Shrine and medieval period of Scottish Relics, was destroyed Our Pilgrimage will be led by history, the Apostle played a by reformers who had Monsignor Keith Newton, our major role in the creation and accompanied John Knox to Ordinary and will begin from News from The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland Page 3

the ruined church behind St where we will begin to recite after which we will hear again Rule’s Tower in the ruins of the the Processional Psalm. from local historian, Colin ancient Cathedral. McAlister. The Pilgrimage Local historian, Walk, with a Our Pilgrimage will end Colin McAlister, Relic of Saint at around 3.45pm with will first set Andrew, will Benediction of the Blessed the scene and follow the Sacrament in St James’, after explain why we road along the which we will all begin our are standing on cliff top, past journeys home. that exact spot. He the Castle ruins and will go into more detail through the Porta An invitation is extended to about Saint Andrew and Sancta, the Holy Door, all who wish to join us ... not St Andrews after lunch. into St James’ Catholic Church just Catholics who are part for the Pilgrimage Mass. of the Personal Ordinariate Mgr Keith will then begin of Our Lady of Walsingham, The Liturgy of Penance after After Mass we will go into but everyone will be most which we will move in silence St James’ Parish Hall to eat welcome! to the crossing point in the the picnic lunch each Pilgrim Saturday 18th June Nave of the ruined Cathedral will have brought with them at 12.30pm New members of the Ordinariate in Scotland

his year so far we In 2011 Michael was received the Personal Ordinariate of Thave received seven new into the Greek Catholic Our Lady of Walsingham. members of the Personal Melkite Church in London, Although he lives in Norfolk, Ordinariate of Our Lady of but subsequently was ordained Michael spends much of his Walsingham. in the Traditional time in Scotland and will be Church of part of the Scotland group. So Michael Chenery . Last year welcome Michael ... at last! Michael Chenery, he began Baron of Horsburgh, his journey James Reed a good friend to back into At the start of the Ordinariate in the fold the year James Scotland and a frequent of the Reed was received Michael Chenery worshipper with us, was Catholic into the Catholic restored to full communion in Church with the Church through the the Catholic Church. Michael intention of becoming Ordinariate in the James Reed has an interesting history. He part of the Ordinariate. Church of St Peter was a member of St Michael’s However, because he began his and St Benedict in Fortrose. Episcopal Church in Inverness Catholic life with the Greek Fr Len first came to know until his work as a Senior Melkite’s he had first to become James at St Michael’s Episcopal Community Mental Health part of the Catholic Church of Church, Inverness. James Practitioner took him south the West before he could then is an experienced church to Norfolk in 1985. He is also be part of the Ordinariate. organist and choirmaster, a Councillor serving on both having studied the organ at Norfolk County Council and At the beginning of May, Mgr Peterborough Cathedral and The Borough Council of King’s Keith confirmed that all had at Christ Church, Oxford. We Lynn & West Norfolk, having been resolved so that Michael welcome him as a member of served since 1987. could become fully part of the Ordinariate. News from The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland Page 4

Simon and Sarah he explained, “I trained as an Beveridge into the Catholic amateur jockey at the British Church through the Racing School at Newmarket Ordinariate. The date is attending the Amateur important because on that National Hunt Course together day, Simon celebrated his with riding out regularly for 55th birthday, bringing the Race Horse Trainer, Jimmy to an end his service as a Frost, in Devon enjoying my Chaplain in the Royal Navy! first full season racing Point Cameron and Elaine Macdonald to Point 2006-7 and achieved Simon was ordained in a winner at Wadebridge in Cameron & Elaine Macdonald the Church of England in 1987 Cornwall. On our last Sunday at and served as Curate at St Fortrose, Cameron Macdonald Brannock in Braunton, North “That season culminated was also received. Cameron Devon, before being appointed in me representing the Royal was ordained in the Scottish as Team Vicar in the North Navy in The Grand Military Episcopal Church in 1990 and Greedy Team in Crediton, Gold Cup at Sandown Park served as Priest-in-Charge of Devon. In 1993 he became a where I met a spectacular end St Columba’s, Nairn, before Royal Navy Chaplain and lately by being run out into the rails becoming an Army Chaplain. served as Chaplain at the Naval by two loose horses when On leaving the Army he served Base at Faslane on the Clyde leading nine lengths clear of as a prison Chaplain and then before his retirement this year. the rest of field! as Mission to Seafarers Chaplain in Aqaba and then “I continued to ride out on the Humber. with other trainers and race Point to Point until 2010. I Cameron’s wife, Elaine, was have since retired from the received into the Catholic racing saddle, my last race Church by Canon Duncan being under rules at Stratford. Stone in Inverness in 1995 I have firm intentions to while Cameron was serving provide a home for a couple as an Army Chaplain in war- Simon and Sarah Beveridge of retired race horses to join inside their new home torn Bosnia (with Cameron’s us once the Mill is completed support and encouragement). In 2011 Simon and Sarah and the paddocks are ready.” Elaine had remained at home purchased an old ruined water in Nairn so that their son, mill, Stonehouse Mill, at Simon and Sarah have been James, could continue his near in Galloway. warmly welcomed by the education uninterrupted. Simon has been working on parishioners of St Martin and Elaine has now, as a “Member the Mill for the past 5 years St , Whithorn, which of the Lay Faithful of the during his summer leave with has become their spiritual Catholic Church originally of his brother Mark. Now, in home. We wish them well in the Anglican Tradition” been his retirement, Simon and their new life in Galloway. admitted as a member of the Sarah, while living in a mobile Ordinariate. We welcome them home beside the mill, are busy Alan Grüber both into the Ordinariate. turning the ruined building The most recent person to into a splendid home. become part of the Ordinariate Simon & Sarah Beveridge is Alan Grüber who worships On Saturday 12th March There is one ‘secret occupation’ in the Catholic parish of St in St Martin and St Ninian’s, that Simon is very proud of ... Margaret’s, Dunfermline. Alan Whithorn, Fr Len received he was an amateur jockey! As was a Church of Scotland News from The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland Page 5

minister for ten student at New Catholics before, or since years before being College. the Ordinariate began now received into the joining the Ordinariate. This Catholic Church. “Much of is something that many people my inspiration are unaware of, namely that Fr Len first came through “a Member of the Lay Faithful came in contact reading Anglo of the Catholic Church who with him in Catholic authors. is either, Originally of the 2011 when Alan I believe that the Anglican Tradition or, who is a worked for the St Alan Grüber Ordinariate brings Member of a Family Belonging Barnabas Society, great treasures into to the Ordinariate” may a wonderful organisation the Roman Catholic Church, apply to become part of the which provides pastoral and from the Caroline Divines, Ordinariate. financial help on behalf of the through Blessed John Henry whole Catholic community Newman and via Hope Patten” This does not affect the fact to former clergy from other (who was responsible for that they may well continue churches who have been led by reviving the Anglican Shrine at to worship in the Catholic faith and conscience to come Walsingham). parish they attend at present. into full communion with the They can continue to do so Catholic Church. The Society We warmly welcome Alan to while also being present at gave great support to Fr Len the Ordinariate in Scotland and an Ordinariate Mass when and to other former Anglican delighted that he feels comforted occasion permits. Fr Len clergy when they began their by the Ordinariate Mass from will be happy to supply journey into the Catholic Divine Worship: The Missal more information and an Church in 2011. as well as enjoying singing Application Form. wonderful hymns! As for Alan, he explains that All this surely disproves his journey to Rome began It is very encouraging to rumours being spread by with High Mass at Old St Paul’s see more Anglicans and some that the Ordinariate in in Edinburgh while he was a Episcopalians who became Scotland “dying” ... untrue! Vatican investigates 2nd Newman ‘miracle’ he Archbishop “It would be a great joy to Tof Birmingham see him take a step closer has welcomed reports to being named among that the Vatican is the saints and would be an investigating a possible encouragement to all who second “miracle” have been inspired by him which may lead to the to seek the truth by seeking canonisation of Blessed Christ. John Henry Newman. “At the same time, and Archbishop Bernard especially during this Longley said it was a Jubilee Year of Mercy, I “great joy” to know that the legacy — not least through the am sure that Blessed John Cause was making progress. two Oratory communities in Henry Newman would want “Blessed John Henry Birmingham and Oxford - as us to continue praying for Cardinal Newman has left an well as to the Church nationally the canonisation of Blessed extraordinarily rich spiritual and internationally. Dominic Barberi, the News from The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland Page 6

Passionist priest who first conclude that the healing is case at the present time. enabled Newman to receive the a divine sign of Newman’s Sacrament of Confession at his sanctity the Pope will be invited Blessed John Henry Newman, reception into full communion to canonise him as the first the esteemed 19th century with the Catholic Church at English saint since 1970 and the Anglican theologian, founded Littlemore in 1845, and who first British saint since 1976. the Oxford Movement which gave him a new insight into the tried to return the Church of merciful love of God.” Two healing miracles are England to its Catholic roots normally required for a before he converted to the The archbishop spoke after candidate to be declared a Catholic faith. The Tablet, the Catholic weekly, saint. Cardinal Newman reported that the Archdiocese was beatified in Cofton He was renowned for his of Chicago had investigated the Park, Birmingham, by Pope virtue and for his reputation inexplicable healing of a young Benedict XVI in 2010 after as a brilliant thinker and Pope American mother who prayed the Vatican approved the first Leo XIII rewarded him with a for the Victorian cardinal’s miracle, which involved the cardinal’s red hat. He died in intercession when she became inexplicable healing of Jack Birmingham in 1890, aged 89, afflicted by a “life-threatening Sullivan, an American deacon and more than 15,000 people pregnancy”. who recovered from a crippling lined the streets for his funeral spinal condition which had left procession to pay tribute to him. Doctors who treated her him “bent double”. have reported that they have He was beatified on 19th no explanation for her sudden An earlier alleged healing of September 2010 by Pope and complete recovery. The a baby in Mexico at Newman’s Benedict XVI who at its file on her case has been passed intercession was dismissed creation in January 2011 to the Congregation for the by the Congregation and the declared him to be Patron of Causes of Saints, and if Vatican Vatican is refusing to disclose the Personal Ordinariate of theologians and doctors further details about the latest Our Lady of Walsingham. New routine for the Ordinariate Mass he new routine for the Ordinariate TMass in Scotland is settling down well, despite one or two minor hiccups!

The monthly routine is now: First Sunday: Oratory of St Joseph, Inverness; Second Sunday: Royal Northern Infirmary Chapel, Inverness; Third Sunday: St Columba’s, Edinburgh and St Mary’s, Stirling; Fourth and Fifth Sundays: Royal Northern Infirmary Chapel, Inverness.

Our first Ordinariate Mass in the Royal Northern Infirmary Chapel on the banks of The Highland Ordinariate Group the River Ness was on Easter Sunday. All went who also use the chapel had told him that they very well until the Offertory, when two fire have no problem with incense), the incense had engines arrived! Despite the fact that Fr Len set off the hospital smoke alarms. Black had checked the week before that it would be possible to use incense (the Orthodox Group Not only did two fire engines arrive, but six News from The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland Page 7

other fire crews were called out so we hope before long to be grateful to is Jim Roche who from being on standby, one enjoying the sweet savour of is our regularly Altar Server further crew from Inverness incense once again. at our Mass, as well as a very and two Nairn and Dingwall, useful resource as to how the each 20 miles away in opposite Mass on the 3rd Sunday Catholic Church in Scotland directions. After the fire of the month in Edinburgh operates. His advice has been officers had checked that all and Stirling are also settling most useful and helpful to Fr was well, they were able to down well despite the fact that Len. Thank you, Jim. call off the other fire engines, the month of May with five whose crews were no doubt Sundays caused some problems In Edinburgh, moving the relieved that there was no for the people in Stirling who Mass to the 3rd Sunday has major hospital fire in Inverness. usually come to the Ordinariate caused problems for Pat and Mass. Thinking that the third Gordon Kendal. Gordon After a short break while Sunday on 15th May was only plays the organ in his local all this happened, the Mass the ‘second Sunday’, numbers Catholic Church, St Lunan’s carried on from the Offertory were well down! in Alyth. When he took - without incense. Afterwards, on the task, he deliberately one of our group told Fr Len We are also most grateful to kept the 2nd Sunday clear that when the Fire Officer asked two other people in Stirling. for the Ordinariate Mass in him who was in charge, he gave Especially to Peter Murphy Edinburgh, playing on the first the name “Monsignor Keith who is Principal Sacristan at and third Sundays. Newton”! All in all, Easter Day St Mary’s is always there to for the Ordinariate group in the welcome us on the 3rd Sunday Not wishing to let the parish Highlands was an exciting day. and to make certain that down, our move to the 3rd everything is prepared. Thank Sunday has meant that they Consultations with the you Peter, we are most grateful have been unable to be at hospital management team for all you do for us. the Ordinariate Mass. He is continue and they have assured hopeful of finding a solution in us that a solution is possible, The other person we are most the not too distant future. The first Ecumenical Chapel in Scotland he Royal Northern Infirmary TChapel, also known officially as the Tweedmouth Memorial Chapel was completed in early 1898 in memory of Baron Tweedmouth.

Dudley Coutts Marjoribanks was the son of Edward Marjoribanks of Greenlands who was a senior partner in Coutts Bank. Dudley was a Scottish businessman and a Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1853 until 1880. He was also a noted dog breeder and Royal Northern Infirmary Chapel, Inverness created the Golden Retriever breed at his estate at Guisachan, near Cannich. made a bequest in May 1896 for a memorial chapel to be built for the principal hospital He died at Bath on 4th March 1894 and to for the Highlands, the Northern Infirmary, at commemorate his love of the Highlands, and to Ness Walk, Inverness. As a practising Anglican provide something practical as a memorial, his and Episcopalian he had a strong interest in widow, Isabella, Dowager Lady Tweedmouth, ecumenism and this would be reflected in the News from The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland Page 8

way the chapel was to be used. harmonious and ecumenical “Royal Northern Community nature of its dedication, less Hospital”. The façade of the The Tweedmouth Memorial than three weeks had elapsed old hospital remains and is Chapel was opened by from the opening when one now the headquarters of the Lady Tweedmouth in May local minister wrote to the University of the Highlands 1898. As part of the opening Inverness Courier newspaper and Islands. The “RNI Chapel” ceremony it was dedicated by to protest at the chapel being however remains in use as a Presbyterian, Catholic and opened to Catholics. This Hospital Chapel for the new Episcopalian clergy, since the resulted in a sharp comment Community Hospital and has building had been designed from the editor against the over the years been used for for ecumenical use, the first correspondent’s remarks! weddings, many being health such purpose-built ecumenical service staff, and more than a worship space in Scotland. It The Northern Infirmary few funerals. was designed so that the nave was given prefix “Royal” by is for Presbyterian worship and King George V in September It is also used by the Quakers, the transepts for Catholic and 1930. Most of the old hospital the Highland Orthodox Episcopalian. has been demolished and Fellowship and now by the new buildings have been Highland Catholic Ordinariate It is reported that, despite the added and become the Group. Monsignor Keith Newton’s Scottish visit s you will Sunday 19th We appreciate that he has a Ahave read, June at 11.30am very busy schedule but if he Monsignor Keith in St Columba’s, is able to be with us for either Newton, our Edinburgh, and at Ordinariate Mass it would be Ordinary, will be 4pm in St Mary’s, wonderful. with us to lead Stirling, as the the Ordinariate main celebrant Fr Andrew Kingham, Parish Pilgrimage to with Fr Len, and Priest of St Mary’s, Stirling, St Andrews, will also give the will also be with us for the honouring Saint Mgr Keith Newton homily. Stirling Mass. Fr Andrew has Andrew, on been most kind in welcoming Saturday 18th June. An invitation has also been us to St Mary’s and hopes to extended to Archbishop Leo concelebrate with Mgr Keith, He will also be with us for Cushley of the Archdiocese of whom he has met before, on the Ordinariate Mass on St Andrews and Edinburgh. Sunday 19th June. Oratory - Lent Appeal - On-line Shop - Welcome

he Ordinariate During the week Mass is said TMass is celebrated on the in the Oratory on Tuesday first Sunday of the month and at 4.30pm and Thursday at during the week in the private 10.30am but please check the Oratory of St Joseph in Fr website first - www.ordinariate. Len’s garden in Inverness. The Oratory of St Joseph scot/midweek. reason we are unable to have the use of the Royal Northern Orthodox Fellowship are Lent Appeal Infirmary Chapel on the first there in the morning and the Thank you to all who Sunday is that the Highland Quakers in the afternoon. supported our Lent Appeal. News from The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland Page 9

£86 went to the money for UK charities. Gift Aid your donation! Ordinariate Clergy Relief It is quick and simple to Trust. The Ordinariate sign up and start giving In testing over the past few has no Pension Scheme at no cost to you. months we have already raised for its younger priests £52.53 for the Ordinariate in and the purpose of this Go to www. Scotland, so please Join The Trust is to care for them in ordinariate.scot/shop and click Giving Machine and help us their later years ... thank you. on “Click here to sign up now”. raise even more ... at no cost to When you have signed up and you! Shop & Donate nominated Scotland The On-line Shopping page Ordinariate as your Leslie Swan on our website has changed. preferred charity We are delighted We no longer use the service you will generate a to welcome Leslie offered by Amazon but now free cash donation Swan from St use The Giving Machine along with every single Lawrence’s Dingwall with over 8000 other churches, purchase at stores who has become a schools and charities. like Amazon, Ebay, regular attender our M&S, NEXT, Tesco, Leslie Swan Ordinariate Mass in The Giving Machine is a Sainsbury, John the Royal Northern UK registered charity, whose Lewis and hundreds more. You Infirmary chapel. It is very sole aim is to facilitate raising will even be given the option to good to have you with us! On Pilgrimage: The Holy Land and Poland ilgrimage is very Michael Thrusfield, while Pmuch in the thoughts not exactly ‘on pilgrimage’ is of many. First, in Poland and our Pilgrimage writes: “I have to St Andrews been lecturing at honouring Saint Warsaw University Andrew with and now have a Mgr Keith is on few days’ holiday. ... in Poland Saturday 18th June. At present I am in the deep south, in “Last night, for dinner, Then Simon and Krynica which is we had our main course in Sarah Beveridge only ten minutes Slovakia (better wine there) ... in the Holy Land will be going on from Slovakia. and dessert in Poland!! Pilgrimage to the Holy Land in June with the “I have found church life in . Southern Poland to be very complex. The churches (all The Pilgrimage, led by made of wood) swop between Bishop , will Roman and Greek Catholic, visit all the usual places such the former keeping the latter’s as Bethlehem, the Sea of iconostasis.” Galilee, the Mount of Olives, the Via Dolorosa and the Thank you Michael, it Church of the Holy Sepulchre sounds and looks fascinating in Jerusalem. We wish them a ... especially the wonderful holy and happy Pilgrimage. ... in Poland Baroque architecture. News from The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland Page 10 Abbey establishes pilgrimage luscarden Abbey, near Elgin, is Pplanning a Pilgrimage tracing the journey that led to its founding nearly 800 years ago.

The 1230 Pluscarden Pilgrimage next year will retrace steps taken by Valliscaulian monks from Burgundy to north-east Scotland. The aim is to raise funds towards the £5 million costs of rebuilding the abbey’s South Range, and is the idea of retired Gordon Highlander, Lt Col David Broadfoot MBE. News from Tobias Parker any of you will “I shall always be grateful Mremember Tobias for, and remember fondly, Parker who was part of the my time in formation in Ordinariate in Scotland while Oxford, and especially all of at seminary in Oxford. After those, in the Ordinariate, at taking some time out to Blackfriars and at Greyfriars discern his future he writes, who made my time there both “After much prayer and so enjoyable and also such a discernment I have decided to time of growth and deepening continue my theological studies of my faith. in the USA, and therefore wish to formally cease the priestly “I shall continue to keep formation with the Ordinariate. you, and the work of the Ordinariate in Scotland in my “I believe that God wills that I prayers, and will hope to see continue my study further, and you again at some point in the also that I continue to pursue near future.” the liturgical printing which I have begun to undertake here We assure Tobias of our with my cousin, and that the continuing thoughts and Tobias with Tess, the Schoenstatt Catholic priesthood is not what prayers. dog during our 2014 Ordinariate he is calling me to pursue. Scotland Pilgrimage there The Prayer Book and the Catholic Church r David Stafford, “I am a former Church Prayer Book Society. Fof the Sheffield Ordinariate of England Priest who, for Group, wrote about Divine doctrinal reasons, entered the “Since I am now a Catholic Office: The Missal, Divine Catholic Church as a member I remain as an Associate Office: Occasional Services and of the Ordinariate (established Member, particularly since the The Customary, the liturgical for former Anglicans in 2009). Ordinariate Use of Liturgy is books of the Ordinariate Throughout my life I treasured based on traditional Anglican in The Prayer Book Society the Book of Common Prayer prayer books from around magazine. and was a member of the the world. The Congregation News from The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland Page 11 for the Doctrine the Church of step of consecrating Samuel for the Faith England and Seabury at Aberdeen in 1784 as requires the clergy catholicised it. the first Anglican Bishop of the and people of United States of America. the Ordinariate the Anglican to ‘maintain Communion “In this way, it can be said the liturgical, “However, that the Episcopal Church in spiritual and further the United States owes much pastoral traditions consequences of its origins to the Scottish of the Anglican of history have Episcopal Church. As a result Communion also made their of the liturgical reforms during within the mark on the the second half of the twentieth Catholic Church, Fr David Stafford Ordinariate Use. century, traditionalists as a precious gift At this point it produced the American nourishing the faith of the is important edition of the Anglican members of the Ordinariate as a to note that Missal that followed closely treasure to be shared’ (Apostolic the Apostolic the English Missal, with the Constitution Anglicanorum Constitution, exception that it included Coetibus, Article III). Anglicanorum three Canons, namely the Coetibus, does American Canon, the Canon prayers from another not refer to of 1549, and the Gregorian denomination the liturgical Canon, said to be based “This, I believe, is an traditions of on the Canon brought by important development the ‘Church Saint Augustine to England. in the history of of England’ but to the Whatever its origin, the Anglicanism and a ‘liturgical traditions Gregorian Canon is central recognition by the of the Anglican to the Ordinariate Use, and Universal Church Communion’. This reflects the ancient tradition of of the importance includes the rites the Catholic Church. of the Book (s) of favoured by Anglo- Common Prayer Catholics in this the diversity of the and the noble land such as the Universal Catholic Church language of classical English Missal and Divine Office: The Missal English. the Anglican Missal and Divine Office: Occasional but also rites used by the Services and the Customary of “The Ordinariate British Colonies Daily Prayer brings Use is unique since throughout the the richness of its this is the first time, world. Anglican traditions as far as I am aware, that the to the diversity of the Congregation for the Doctrine Scottish Episcopal Universal Catholic of the Faith has approved a Church Church. liturgy that has taken prayers “The influence of and shape from another the Episcopalian “The experience of denomination. It is however rites used in the past, on which important to recognise that the the USA have the Ordinariate Use Ordinariate Use is a thoroughly particular draws its ethos, can Catholic Rite. Simply put, the importance. After help question the present compilers of the Ordinariate the independence of the and inform the future. Its Use took the shape of Thomas Thirteen Colonies, the Scottish contribution to the Catholic Cranmer’s 1549 Rite for Episcopal Church took the Church is invaluable.” News from The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland Page 12 Ordinariate Flying Missionary!

r Stanley Bennie, our Ordinariate Scotland Flying Priest Fhas again been assisting the Diocese of and the Isles in the Western Isles having just returned from a week in Barra, while Fr John Paul MacKinnon (did you see him on “An Island Parish” on the BBC) was on a Pilgrimage to Lourdes. Fr John Paul is the Parish Priest of Barra and Vatersay with it’s 5 churches. Fr Stanley said Mass in three, Our Lady, Star of the Sea in Castlebay, St Brendan in Craigston, St Barr in Northbay. The population of the Island of Barra was 1,300 in 2014. The journey from Fr Stanley’s home in The northern parts of the Western Isles, Lewis Stornoway began with a walk to the bus station and Harris, are dominated by Presbyterian (10 mins), the bus out to Stornoway Airport churches and have been described as “the last (15 mins) and then the short flight (20 minutes, bastion of Sabbath observance in the UK”, while although the time table says 40 mins!) to the southern islands of South Uist and Barra Benbecula Airport. Next was a mini-bus trip are the last remnant of native pre-Reformation from Benbecula Airport to the Scottish Catholicism. Barra Eriskay slipway (1 hour 40 min). was once dubbed “the island The CalMac Ferry then took the Reformation did not reach”. him from Eriskay to Ardmhor The 2011 Census showed on the Island of Barra (40 that Barra was 70.9% Catholic, mins) where he was collected by South Uist, the second- car and driven to Castlebay (30 most populated of the Outer mins). His total journey time by Hebrides, was 67% Catholic Bus, Plane, Minibus, Ferry and while the sparsely populated Car was 3 hours 35 mins. islands of Eriskay was 84.8% To drive from Stornoway and Vatersay 80% Catholic. to Castlebay would take 3½ Benbecula was evenly divided hours plus 2 ferry crossings between Catholics (40.6%) Leverburgh to Berneray (1 and Protestants (40.1%), hour) and Lochboisdale to making the southernmost Castlebay (1 hour 45 mins) a of the Western Isles the total of 6 hours 15 minutes. No most Catholic parts of all of wonder Fr Stanley does not drive! Scotland. Ordinariate Scotland Mass Centres Inverness Edinburgh Stirling

Royal Northern Infirmary Chapel St Columba’s Church St Mary’s Church Ness Walk, Inverness IV3 5SF 9 Upper Gray Street, Edinburgh EH9 1SN 15 Upper Bridge Street, Stirling FK8 1ES 2nd, 4th and 5th Sundays THIRD Sunday THIRD Sunday of of each month at 3pm of each month at 11.30am each month at 4pm The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland, 49 Laurel Avenue, Inverness IV3 5RR Telephone: 01463 235597 www.ordinariate.scot Charity Reg No: 1141536