2018 Spring/Summer Edition – Issue 9 Friends of the Ordinariate Supporting the Holy See’s Vision for Christian Unity

Ten New for the Ordinariate! Fr Hunwicke on the Diaconate News from the Ordinariate Monastery The Ordinariate in Russia Friends of the Ordinariate – 2018 Spring/Summer Friends of the Ordinariate – 2018 Spring/Summer

From the Honorary President Chairman’s Message Contents

Half-Awake From the President by Mgr Keith Newton 2 was A Spiritual Aeneid (1918) by Mgr. Dear Friends of the children to school from their new locations. Less obvious RonaldThe book Knox. that In most it he influenced makes the my analogy own conversion of slowly waking to the Ordinariate, was the loss of access to sources of additional support that up and, in his somnolence, being convinced that the bundle Chairman’s Message are available to clergy in the . There This year marks seven of sheets in front of him might perhaps by Peter Sefton-Williams 3 were no such funds for Ordinariate Clergy families. The years since the Ordinariate be a polar bear. But, as he returns to Ordinariate Families Fund seeks, in a small way, to begin to was erected on 15th consciousness, it looks less and less Thoughts on the Diaconate January 2011; much has like a bear. When fully awake, he cannot year and we have already set up a restricted fund and sought been achieved, while imagine how he had ever seen it as a by Fr Hunwicke 4 grantsfill this to gap. begin It was to resource formally it. launched in the early part of the much remains to be done. bear. In this manner he describes his There have been many As you see, the Ordinariate is busy raising funds but we are gradual awakening to the fullness of the Our New Deacons 5 – 7 still very grateful for and reliant on the continued generosity Catholic faith. Mgr Keith Newton encouraging signs over the past twelve months. We of the Friends of the Ordinariate. This describes my own experience. I Nuncio reception at Golden Square 7 With prayers best wishes for 2018 cannot now remember how I was ever raised the money to build a proper presbytery within one of convinced by the claims of authentic Yours sincerely in Christ theestablished existing ourchurch first halls personal on the parish site of in our Torbay church and there. have We Catholicity within the Anglican Ordinariate Announces Major have also strengthened our presence in the north of England Communion, even though I did so Lay Conference for 2018 7 with new initiatives in York and in South Manchester. Much devoutly at the time. As the Church of England sails, in most of this work has been made possible through the generous respects, away from the Barque of Peter, my amazement contributions of the Friends of the Ordinariate. grows at those still sustained and consoled by this belief. News from the Monstery

The highlight of last year was the of ten deacons The recent decision to appoint The Right Rev Dame by Reverend Mother Winsome SBVM 8 & 9 The Right Revd Monsignor Keith Newton by Bishop Robert Byrne Cong. Orat at St James’s, Spanish Sarah Mullally as the new Bishop of London can only be Place in London. It is these that this edition of Hon. President interpreted as an act of provocation towards those who The Ordinariate in Russia! the Friends newsletter focusses on in particular. Two of The Friends of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham are putting their trust in the various provisions designed by Nicolas Ollivant and Ivan Fadeyev those deacons, Simon Beveridge and Cameron Macdonald, to protect the Catholic-minded minority. But in light of this 10 & 11 have already been ordained to the priesthood to help with unexpected appointment, how long can it before the General the growing Ordinariate mission in Scotland; they joined Fr Synod of the Church of England, or even the State itself, The York Ordinariate Ian Westby as our new in 2017. The remaining eight Have you Gift-Aided your strikes out these protective measures? And, when they do by John Konstantin Tee 12 men will be ordained on 30th June at the Birmingham so, who can blame them since they represent a majority Oratory, and I hope as many people as possible will be there Donation? view within the Church of England? to support these men as they take this important step. The Ordinariate Concelebration set If you are a UK taxpayer and donate to the Friends of the Now is the time to remind those who are starting to A distinguishing mark of a mature organisation is that Ordinariate, we can claim 25p from HMRC for every £1 question their long-term security within the Anglican by Anthony Delarue 13 that you give us. For this reason, we urge all our donors Communion that there is, indeed, a thriving and viable Ordinariate is extremely generous but, unlike the dioceses, alternative. The Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham Forthcoming Events 14 weit properly have no finances endowments its activities. which we The may giving draw within upon. theWe are offers a sanctuary to those with doubts over the validity of therefore entirely reliant from day to day upon the good this Newsletter, returning it to us at: to fill in and tear off the Gift Aid form on the back page of their Sacramental life; where their previous ministry and will of the members of the Ordinariate and the fundraising witness will be valued and applauded, and where they will Ordinariate Lapel Badges 14 efforts of the Friends who, for the most part, are not Mrs Judi Broadhurst be able to rejoice in their Anglican heritage. The Friends of registered members of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady the Ordinariate undertake to do all they can to extend the The Administrator Please support the Friends of the Ordinariate of Walsingham; your support is very generous and I thank hand of friendship to those within the CoE who are seeking you for this with all my heart and ask that you will continue Friends of the Ordinariate an alternative during this turbulent period. How to Donate: 15 to support our work in bringing about Pope Benedict XVI’s 19 Spencelayh Close vision for the unity of the Church. Wellingborough Peter Sefton-Williams Within the Ordinariate we will also focus on particular Northamptonshire Chairman, Friends of the Ordinariate fundraising objectives, including the introduction of two NN8 4UU of Our Lady of Walsingham second collections in Ordinariate congregations, one around the feast of St. Augustine and the other near the feast of Our The prostration of the ten candidates of Lady of Walsingham. These will be for the Clergy Training the diaconate during the Litany of the THE PORTAL is a free on-line publication and is aimed at those Fund and the Clergy Relief Trust for the sick and retired. would appreciate it if you were to complete this form Saints at Spanish Place on 17th June 2017. in the Personal Ordinariates of the Catholic Church, Anglicans Even if you have already filled in a Gift Aid form, we We have also established a new fund: the Ordinariate again for our records. 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Thoughts on the Diaconate: Our New Deacons Fr John Hunwicke offers some insight into the purpose of the Ten men were ordained to the diaconate at St James’s Spanish Place in May last year. We asked for some of them to tell us what it was that brought them to the diaconate in the church Catholic church

What a splendid event an Leonard Cox Jonathan Creer ordination is! When God takes a “I have come home!” was my My journey to the Catholic Church man and marks his soul with the immediate thought after I was was in one sense only a short of Holy Order. Rather as character step, although it took me rather at a wedding, one feels that it is an ordained in June. I dare a long time to make it. I was born essentially prosecco occasion. But … say many who have travelled into a mixed family - my father is what exactly is a deacon? from the CofE to the Catholic Church have experienced that Catholic and my mother is Anglican This is an extremely interesting sense of ‘homecoming’. However - although my father had lapsed question, not least because, by the time he married and had my reasons and theological in Western Christendom, children, so we were not brought convictions are underpinned the twentieth century saw a up as Catholic. As a teenager I revolutionary change in how this with deep personal connotations. became involved in a ‘high’ Anglican ministry is perceived. We are very often told … you, dear Suffice to say I was wearing my church in Shropshire, and when I went to university I went reader, may already have been told this … that Diaconia is Catholic mother’s rosary when Bishop Robert Byrne to St Mary Magdalen’s, then the main Anglo-Catholic church ministry to the poor, the needy, the disadvantaged. It images conferred the sacrament of ordination at St James’s in Oxford. I left university, joined the civil service, moved the Ministry of the Son of Man himself, who came, not to Spanish Place. to London, and began to worship at St Michael’s Croydon, receive service, but to give it. And it beautifully matches and another church in the Anglo-Catholic tradition. symbolises the role of the Church herself. As Pope Francis I am what is sweetly called a ‘late entrant’ to ordained ministry. And though I try not to give too many clues At university I had thought about conversion and also about mirrors the well-known saying of our own Archbishop about my age (!), I won’t be hiding my delight next year ordination, but neither seemed the right thing for me at Temple,has put it,that the the Church Church is tois bethe a only ‘field institution hospital’. Thiswhich neatly exists Catholic High Mass, every ritual step was “O’Connell” except the time. Then as I hit my mid-forties I began to wonder for those who are not her members. The Servant Church! when I am priested at the ‘home’ of Blessed John Henry that we had the Deacon administering the Chalice. This again about ordination, so I spoke to my parish priest and The World is no longer impressed by the Church as Queen was deeply authentic and rooted in the praxis of the early Newman, on the very day (as at the time of writing) of my contacted the Anglican Diocese of Southwark. At around and Mother and the Venerable Teacher of Divine Truth and centuries when the People of God still received the Chalice. 10th anniversary of CofE ordination. this time, in November 2009, as I was thinking and praying of Moral Laws. But it may yet be impressed by a repackaging But Diaconia is not an exclusively cultic ministry. The deacon of the Church as an institution designed to get its hands My sending church was St Martin in the Bull Ring where about my future, Pope Benedict issued Anglicanorum might very well ‘serve’ his bishop in other matters, not dirty doing good in a world in which there is so much good I have worked as CEO for its operational unit and also Coetibus, establishing the Personal Ordinariates. This seemed a sign as to what I should do, so in a relatively brief that needs to be done. served as a lay reader. My curacy was at the flourishing space of time I joined the Ordinariate, took redundancy, and Well, be that as it may, the embarrassing fact is that the electedleast those to be concerning bishop without finance ever and having property. served That as is a why, priest. Anglo-catholic parish of St Luke’s, Kingstanding following offered myself for ordination. After the normal interviews account I have just given of Diaconal Ministry is a modern in the first centuries, a senior deacon was not uncommonly a year as the lay mission partner. Andrew Burnham and checks I was accepted and started as a seminarian in and impotent people of the parish, to intimate their estates provided Episcopal oversight and priested me on the October 2012, initially at Blackfriars in Oxford, and then the earlier centuries. In fact, as you browse through the namesMoreover, and the places deacon’s where office they isdwell “to search to the Curatefor the, sick,that bypoor Feast of St Benedict 2009. I have since been clothed an at Oscott near Birmingham. I was ordained deacon in June prayersinvention in for the which present it isOrdination difficult to Service, find much whenever evidence you in his exhortation they may be relieved with the alms of the oblate at Belmont Abbey. come across phrases like “concern for the sick and the parishioners, or others” (BCP). In other words, the Deacon will be ordained priest in June 2018. does indeed have a ministry of “service”, but it is of service After curacy I was appointed vicar of St Peter’s West 2017 at the end of my fifth year of study, and God willing, insertions that were added in the decades after Vatican II to the person of his Bishop/priest. A deacon is no more Bromwich where I enjoyed ministry with a wonderful David Hathaway andpoor” have you little can beor prettyno basis confident in the ancient that you traditions have hit and upon rites ordained to have a “concern for the sick and the particularly group of faithful souls who we were very sad to leave. of the Church. poor” than is any other Christian. I met my wife Helen at Cardiff Thankfully Janice and I still enjoy lovely relationships University, we married in 1972 and So what was the earlier concept of Diaconia? In the present I hope this will be a reassurance to newly ordained deacons. with our former parishioners. now have three married children, Catholic Prayer of Ordination, a modern interpolation It would be very natural for them to wake up on the morning three granddaughters (the third after their Ordination with a nasty hang-over accompanied My humble efforts to be responsive to God’s call on my arriving in November) and a followed immediately by a phrase from the and very by an uneasy, guilty feeling that they should be up and original life have taken me on an amazing journey. Even though grandson. early(“In the Roman first daysPrayer of ofyour Ordination: Church … “Lord, serving look at tables”)with favour is about, ministering to any “sick and poor” persons they can I struggled with the ever increasing liberalising agenda In my spare time I enjoy visiting on this servant of yours, whom we now dedicate to the lay their hands on. Worry not. Turn over, and go back to of the CofE I will always acknowledge its generosity to gardens with my wife – Helen to minister at your holy altar”. That is what sleep. If, however, your Ordinary or Priest bangs on your loves gardening whereas I only a Deacon is for. He is ordained to ‘minister to’ the Bishop door crying “Get up and put your dalmatic on because I’m me. But when I finally concluded it was untenable for me love gardens. I also enjoy visiting oroffice the ofPresbyter deacon “in divine service, and especially when he going to be singing High Mass in three minutes”, then you do to continue ministering in a Church so distant from my preserved railways, like to watch ministereth the Holy Communion” (BCP). So this ‘service’ need to get moving. theological convictions, Catholic heart and spirituality, I knew I had to act decisively. American Football (New England Patriots) and I am really Recommended reading: Diakonia Re-interpreting the Ancient enjoying my Formation studies (though, it isn’t easy for me). never more a deacon than when he is standing at the right Sources John N Collins, 1990. It surveys the rise of the modern handis firstly of the and eucharistic principally celebrant; cultic and offering eucharistic. with A him deacon the is errors from the 1930s onwards, and discusses the relevance or Thank you Blessed John Henry Newman, thank you Pope Most of my ministry as an Anglican priest from 1972, apart Chalice and saying together with him “We offer unto thee otherwise to these studies of the “seven” who were appointed Benedict, thank you the Ordinariate. To God be praise from a curacy in Oakham in Rutland, was spent in the Diocese O Lord the Chalice of Salvation ...”. And in our old Anglo- by the Apostles, Acts 6, to serve at tables. and glory. of Monmouth in the Church in Wales; I had additional duties

Page 4 www.friendsoftheordinariate.org.uk www.friendsoftheordinariate.org.uk Page 5 Friends of the Ordinariate – 2018 Spring/Summer Friends of the Ordinariate – 2018 Spring/Summer as a Territorial Army Chaplain for twenty-four years, twice posted to Germany with the Royal Green Jackets going on a ordained deacon and priest by the late Bishop David Thomas being mobilised in support of the Regular Army. Tour of Duty to Bosnia and then with the 39 Engineers and in (the ‘Provincial Assistant’ or Welsh ‘Flying Bishop’), and Nuncio reception at Golden When I am asked why I became a Catholic, the question Cairo, Gibraltar, America, Oman and Canada. served a curacy in Caerphilly, South Wales. It was during this I am really dealing with in my mind is why on earth didn’t On leaving the forces I served as a Prison Chaplain and Square I become a Catholic sooner. then as Port Chaplain for the Mission to Seafarers in Aqaba, with many others, of course) that at some point in the future Jordan and Immingham. I live in Nairn, near Inverness, difficultI would betime received that I came into theto the Full inevitable Communion conclusion of the Holy (along Many years before becoming a Catholic I discovered what a Catholic Church. As a married man with a young family, I was gem the Catechism of the Catholic Church was in my ministry with my wife, Elaine, and was received into the Catholic Church in March 2016, commencing two years of studies on also resigned to the fact that my ordained life was effectively as Vicar of an Anglican parish in the catholic tradition. I over. Or so I thought … turned to it as a resource for understanding, teaching and, the Ordinariate’s Formation for Priesthood Programme in London in September 2016. I was ordained a priest for the on many occasions, reassurance – reassurance that what The rest is now history: with the establishment of the I believed and handed on to others was informed by Holy Ordinariate in St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh, by the Most Rev. Leo Cushley on 16th December 2017 and will serve the Ordinariate a few years later, a new opportunity presented Scripture and Sacred Tradition, was indeed what the Church itself. By then I had already taken the plunge and been believed and taught. Ordinariate in Inverness and throughout Scotland. received into the Church via the local RCIA program, which Eventually, taking time time to think about my relationship was the only option locally. I transferred into the Ordinariate with the Catechism, it was a natural step to embrace (with a Thomas Mason glad heart) the Catholic Church or, maybe it would be better Having been raised in a vicarage, Catholic, and have never looked back. to say let myself be embraced by the Catholic Church. faith has always been a part of at the first opportunity. It is fair to say that I love being a And I hold in veneration, life for me; however, it was as Following various conversations with Monsignor Newton and For the love of Him alone, my group Pastor, my petition to Rome was received favorably, much to my surprise! It was with a great sense of joy - not to Holy Church as His creation, encountered anglo-catholicism mention humble trepidation – that I was ordained Deacon And her teachings as His own. (Bl JH Newman) andan undergraduate that a fully-lived that faith I first became Since its foundation in 2011, the Ordinariate in this this summer. I have been actively involved with the Wales central. It was also at this time that I country has always enjoyed a warm and close relationship David Jones (South East) Group of the Ordinariate since its inception, and with the Apostolic Nuncio to the Court of St James. This I also assist across the Metropolitan Archdiocese as and when I was brought up in a Calvinistic has in no way diminished with the arrival of His Excellency, of a vocation to the priesthood, but I required; my arrival at the various churches on my BMW Methodist family with chapel Edward Adams, who was appointed nuncio to this country didfirst not began feel to able consider to pursue the thispossibility in the motorcycle does seem to generate a lot of interest amongst every Sunday and strict Sabbath in April of last year. Church of England which left me in the Catholic faithful … observance, but as a teenager was something of an ecclesiastical limbo. We were happy to be able to cement this relationship with drawn to the Catholic Church, feeling I look to the future (and with it, God willing, priestly a fund raising reception on 28th November last year at the a call to the priesthood but secretly Following graduation, I worked in a university for a few years home of the Ordinary, Monsignor Keith Newton, from attending Mass, so as not to offend occasionally wondering about the possibility of ordination pre-reformation times to the present. the family. As a student I opted for but without any sort of path which would make it feasible for 2nd best and became an ordination) with great hopeMichael and confidence. Ward The Friends were overwhelmed by the support received, me. The announcement of Anglicanorum Cœtibus was a clear Anglican, married, was ordained I served as an Anglican clergyman both from attending guests, but also from those who, being watershed: there was a clear invitation from a Pope whom and had a family. But through the from 2004-2012, working as a unable to attend, responded with very generous donations. next 40 years serving parishes in I greatly admired to join him in a new venture. It was an We raised well over £10,000 in total. UK and abroad my frustration grew with the inconsistency, invitation which I could not in conscience decline. Cambridge, then at St Peter’s College, The trustees would like to thank those who supported ill discipline and theological fudging within . So collegeOxford. chaplain,The decision first to at become Peterhouse, a this event so generously, so as to allow the Ordinariate to on the Feast of the Assumption 2015 I was received into the Having been received into the Church, the barriers to Catholic was twenty years in the Catholic Church, a happy and liberating occasion. With the ordination seemed to have disappeared – a strong sense encouragement of the Ordinariate group here in Nottingham of being ‘home’ and a clear conviction that whatever may by a quest to understand how continue to grow and flourish. I offered myself for the priesthood of the Catholic Church and happen in the future, it will happen within the Catholic makingand where and Christ’s was motivated authority chiefly is much to my amazement was accepted. By the grace of God, 40 Church meant that I was free to offer myself. I now approach manifested in his Church. Having Ordinariate Announces Major plus yrs late, I am here to serve and respond to that teenage the end of the standard Catholic six-year formation; being worked at Peterhouse and St Peter’s, calling of the Lord. I ought to have realized where the answer lay (!), but it took Lay Conference for 2018 Ordinariate has not been without its challenges, but has Cameron Macdonald one of the first to explore priestly vocation ab initio in the words, “You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my Church I was born in Cirencester in 1951 certainly continue into the future. a… long I will time give for you me the to keys realise of the the kingdom full significance of heaven” of Christ’s (Matthew At the Ordinariate Festival in Wesminster on 23rd and was educated at Cirencester been an exciting and grace-filled journey so far – which will 16: 18-19). September details were announced of a Lay Conference to School before going on to study be held at Worth Abbey from 7th - 9th August 2018. The I was received into the Catholic Church in 2012 and spent in London as an Evangelist in the David Prichard title of the Conference is Being Ordinariate and sessions Church Army. I was commissioned as will explore the development of English Catholicism for Blackfriars Hall in the University of Oxford, and as Professor pre-reformation times to present day and the role of the of age, married to Nicki, who is a fiveof Apologetics years as a layman,at Houston earning Baptist my University, living as a FellowTexas (teaching of Ordinariate in its future, with a special emphasis on the role aat Church Southwark Army Cathedral, Officer and working admitted HeadI am currently Teacher, organistfifty-something and musician: years of the laity. in Canterbury and later as Chaplain we live with our daughter in Cardiff. particular focus on C.S. Lewis. to the Office of Evangelist in 1976 The conference is the initiative of the Ordinariate’s Assistant at Reading Hospitals and My previous working life has been online). My field of study is theological imagination, with a After a visit to Rome and Assisi in 2015, I felt it was time to national Pastoral Council and the organising committee are then in Middlesbrough. diverse, having held various roles explore the possibility of ordination, and, after discussions within NHS administration and particularly keen to involve Ordinariate members who live I completed the North Eastern with various priests and bishops, the Ordinariate presented (more extensively) the Police. some distance from the nearest Ordinariate congregation Ordination Course and was ordained itself as the right avenue. I admire the Ordinariate as an and can therefore feel rather isolated. Details of the As an Anglican of the ‘Church in example of ‘realised ecumenism’ and as a valuable thread priest in 1990 serving in Moray Conference are being circulated via the 43 Ordinariate Wales’ in the Catholic tradition, of continuity with the pre-Reformation English Church. I am diocese before becoming an Army Chaplain in 1995 serving in Groups around the country and will be available on the I trained for the priesthood at pleased to be able to serve the Church through the Ordinariate Suffolk with 3/4 Regiment Army Air Corp and then in Croatia Ordinariate website. as part of the United Nations Peace Keeping Force. Later I was St Stephen’s House, Oxford. I was while continuing my vocation as an academic.

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Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Our Continuing Journey…

Gloucestershire, founding Pluscarden in Scotland and Sister Rosemary had been in life profession for 53 years (so ensuring the continuation of monastic life in the old French shorter than Sister Deirdre Michael) but both sisters share house at Farnborough. These are all part of the Benedictine so much. Subiaco Cassinese Congregation who have traditionally The Mass for each occasion spoke to us of celebration: For welcomed converts which is perhaps one of the reasons Sister Deirdre Michael’s Jubilee Mass: a joyous remembering we have felt so at home with them. The formal process of of 60 years of faithfully following Christ’s call. For Sister our aggregation continues and our Ordinary, Monsignor Rosemary’s Requiem Mass: a joyous remembering of a Keith Newton, has already delegated some of his consonant completed life of following God’s call and the sense of responsibilities to the Benedictine Congregation, as is usual celebration that having completed her journey here on for Diocesan Bishops. earth, she was now looking towards the eternal joys of Indeed, the Abbot of Farnborough, on behalf of Monsignor heaven. Newton, presided over the election of a Reverend Mother on The Mass for each special occasion also spoke of loss: loss 8 November 2017, the feast of All Saints of the Benedictine for Sister Deirdre Michael (as for all of us) of the missed Order (a most appropriate day!). Father Simon Ellis, a opportunities during those 60 years of responding with local Ordinariate Priest, was also present on behalf of the alacrity to God’s call, missed opportunities for receiving Ordinary, the two thus providing a demonstrable sign of more of His graces. For Sister Rosemary, the Mass spoke of mutual support and encouragement for the sisters by both our loss of her, that this side of the grave, we will no longer our Benedictine and Ordinariate families. have the opportunity to give and receive love from the mortal Sister Rosemary. Anglican community in 2006 and was re-elected by the Both sisters were the same age – 87, in fact Sister Rosemary wholeI had first community been elected shortly Reverend before weMother were of received our former into the was only two DAYS older than Sister Deirdre Michael, which Church. When we then became a new Catholic community, over the years became an ongoing joke as to why Sister Monsignor Newton appointed me as Reverend Mother Rosemary considered herself the senior! Sister Deirdre for an initial period. SBVM now being settled, it was Michael, on the other hand, was able to point to the fact appropriate for us to elect a Reverend Mother. I am humbled that in Religious Life, seniority is measured from the date that you enter the monastery not age, so SHE asserted her demonstrated by their election of me as Reverend Mother seniority based on this! ofby SBVM.the continuing love and confidence all the sisters have I end as I began: in one respect, nothing has changed, which is in keeping with the Benedictine vow of stability; a salient professionWhat both sistersof their share Religious is a lifelong Vows of fidelity poverty, to chastity God, seeking and focus of Benedictine Religious Life. We move forward into obedience,to love and madefollow more Him throughthan half the a century fulfilment ago. of For the each “There is always something happening in a monastery” the next stage of our journey trusting in God’s continuing of them, this led into the full communion of the Catholic providence and following the example of the Blessed Virgin “Nothing changes in a monastery” Mary’s humility and faith. Sacraments of the Catholic Church. Church. Indeed, Sister Rosemary, died fortified by the For Sister Deirdre Michael, when she reaches the end by Reverend Mother Winsome SBVM Life and Death: Sister of her earthly journey, her prayer is that she too will be Catholic Church. In a particular sense, from the moment a Two views of monastic life, representing polar ends of a The clearest sight is hindsight and it is only by looking back sistersurrounded makes by her the vows, love, her prayers life is and focused final onSacraments the day when of the spectrum; yet both are true of our experience of life as that we can see how far God has led us as we have journeyed Rosemary SBVM and Sister she will meet her heavenly bridegroom, whether her life is Deirdre Michael SBVM long or short. She knows that our Lord’s call can come at any local Catholic community – indeed the local parish priests moment and as Scripture reminds us, “Watch therefore, for Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary (SBVM). The first day these last five years. We are now deeply embedded in the by Reverend Mother Winsome SBVM Lord’s call and were received into the full communion of the celebrate Mass for the parish in the sisters’ chapel six days a you know neither the day nor the hour.” (Matt 25: 13) Catholicof January Church 2018 throughmarked fivethe Personalyears since Ordinariate we followed of Our the week. On Sunday, we have a rota of Ordinariate priests who celebrate for us and those parishioners who join us. January 2018 has been a very special month in the life of the This January, the Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary give Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary. A very familiar antiphon thanks for the continuing life of Sister Deirdre Michael, and years: our life together follows the same monastic rhythm As Religious we have been welcomed into the wider Lady of Walsingham. In a sense, nothing has changed in five to us begins, “In the midst of life, we are in death…” which for the completed life and holy death of Sister Rosemary. We of prayer; worship; lectio divina; silence; monastic practical Benedictine family through our growing bonds with the poignantly summarises our experience of this new year, remind ourselves that between those two unique events, “in work of day to day tasks as well as the practical ministry Subiaco Cassinese Congregation of monks and nuns. The for on 10th January we laid to rest our Sister Rosemary the midst of life, we are in death…” and we journey on to the of hospitality to guests; providing spiritual support for the monks of Caldey made the same spiritual journey as we did and a week later, on the 18th January, celebrated with our from Anglicanism to full communion exactly one hundred Sister Deirdre Michael her 60th (diamond) Jubilee of life knowledge of the welcome that will be ours, when, like the postings on our website. years ahead of us. These monks moved to Prinknash in profession. prodigalcompletion son, of we our too, own one earthly day, reach pilgrimage, our heavenly confident home. in the public benefit, such as through our short daily meditation

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The Ordinariate in Russia! © Olga Hrul © Olga © Olga Hrul © Olga St Mary’s Cathedral at night Divine Liturgy in the Cathedral By Nicolas Ollivant and Ivan Fadeyev The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the Holy Blessed John Henry Newman. It consists mainly of Russian Because of the irregular schedule of the services, please Virgin Mary in Moscow was completed in 1911. It is one ‘cradle’ Catholics, interested in and attached to the Anglican of three Catholic churches in Moscow and is the largest Patrimony in the Catholic Church, and a member of the yahoo.co.uk. The group ask for your prayers in support of Catholic church in Russia. It was built in the Gothic style Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, Ivan Fadeyev. theircontact work. Ivan first via [email protected]. or fadeyev.ivan@ Supported by Una Voce Russia (unavoce.ru), a member- in 1997 it was in a very sorry state after 60 years of neglect association of the International Federation Una Voce, the and the material used was red brick. When I first visited it group organised two Evensongs to celebrate their patron, Soviet government and closed in the 1930s. Two concrete Bl John Henry Newman, in 2016 and 2017. and desecration. The cathedral had been confiscated by the Since April 2017, the group members have been meeting 1990’s. After the return of the church to the Catholic Church, relatively regularly for Evensong in the chapel of the floors were added and it was used as offices until the mid- it was restored, reopened and reconsecrated in 2005. Franciscan Monastery in Moscow, with the kind permission of Masses are celebrated in Russian, Armenian, Polish, Spanish, the friars. The group is happy to welcome any member of the Korean, English and Latin. In November 2017 the Friends of

© Olga Hrul © Olga three Ordinariates to their services on Saturday evenings. the Ordinariate sent a copy of the Ordinariate Missal, Divine St Mary’s Cathedral exterior Worship, to a small group who worship at the Cathedral. This group is led by Ivan Fadeyev who was formerly a member of the Church of England and worshipped at St Andrew’s Anglican Church in Moscow. We pray that this group will be welcomed at the Cathedral and that it will grow and become a focus point for Catholics in Moscow who were formerly members of the Church of England or of the Episcopalian Church of the USA. Members of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham (UK), of the Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter (USA) and of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross (Australia) will all be welcomed to St Mary’s Cathedral in Moscow. © Olga Hrul © Olga © Olga Hrul © Olga The Ordinariate support group in Moscow was formed Hrul © Olga Cathedral Interior less than two years ago, on October 9, 2016, the Feast of The Altar at which the Ordinariate liturgy is celebrated Members of the Moscow Ordinariate group with their new missal

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The York Ordinariate The Ordinariate Concelebration set

by Anthony Delarue by John Konstantin Tee

“Just get on with it”. With the Ordinary’s words still ringing in my ears I was faced with what appeared to be an impossible task. To form ex nihilo an Ordinariate group in the historic city of York. I wasn’t a Catholic priest, had no congregation and no church building. However, that is not entirely true. There was within the whole city of York that most rare of species, a member of the Ordinariate! I had met Duncan Scott, a young and personable fellow, at the Oratory in Formation in York where he often served at the Extraordinary Form Mass. It was a start at least. I was blessed to meet Father David Stafford on the 20th May 2017 following a Mass in the Ordinariate Use of the Roman Rite at the Oratory in Formation. Without further delay Duncan, Father David and I repaired to the Eagle and Child hostelry for refreshments and eager conversation. It was a portentous occasion. For not only was the will to form a group cemented but in attendance at the pub was also a well known character, Mike Forbester. Mike has a long history in The new chasuble is intended for priests of the Ordinariate providing traditional liturgical music either by himself alone of Our Lady of Walsingham to wear when together with of the Catholic Church; then they are the brambles of or through his most excellent choir, the Rudgate Singers. priests from the various dioceses, and has been designed theshowing English the hedgerow, Ordinariate representing as part of the the salvific English mission people

Plans were beginning to form in my head. Crane © Ron to whom the priests of the Ordinariate minister; and Myself and Mike had long associations with the oldest The York Ordinariate Group & Friends Westminster which were made in 2012, incorporating thirdly they can be seen as the tangle of sin and error of church in York, St Mary’s, Bishophill Junior. They in turn patternsto fit in with from the Bentley’s diocesan cathedral. vestments, such of those of the Reformation, from which following Newman’s Second have a long tradition of welcoming those of other traditions. of September 2017. This occasion went very smoothly The Ordinariate vestment, in a full gothic shape, has an Spring the Ordinariate continues to rise. The pure white Could I dare ask the Vicar and PCC of an Anglican church consideringStafford came myself, over to as celebrate Master of our Ceremonies, first Mass andon the Duncan 24th orphrey depicting the white lily of Our Lady of Walsingham lily is growing from the brambles, showing that there (as seen in the shield of the Shrine), the stamens of the is always hope even in the darkest hour. The colours of Catholic worship being beautifully appointed by generations Use Mass. Mike Forbester provided the accompaniment lily are black, and drawn like the nails of the Passion, to the orphrey have been chosen to allow it to be used on ofto Anglo-Catholics.host official Catholic I was services? not without Certainly trepidation. it lent itself to forScott our had Missa not previouslyCantata and officiated there were at ana goodly Ordinariate number show that we can only come to Jesus through Mary; this is vestments of all the colours of the liturgical year. The in attendance. I think I must add at this point that our I began to start asking permissions. I wanted authorities accompanied by the two red hearts taken from Blessed John background is always gold, representing the ultimate congregation is largely made up of regular Catholics, both Catholic and Anglican to grant approval to an Henry Newman’s arms and illustrating his motto “Cor ad Cor triumph of Christ the King. Ordinariate group using St Mary’s for both Mass and other some Anglicans and those of no religion at all. Everyone agreed that the Mass was most beautiful and enjoyed the loquitur” - “Heart speaks unto Heart”. So the pierced heart is the Sacred Heart of Our Lord, and the other is that of the regular service of Evensong according to the Customary righteous soul - yours. Newman is patron of the Ordinariate. ofservices. Our Lady With of theseWalsingham. speedily These obtained were we to plannedoccur every our first ‘Catholic’ Mass in the oldest church in York probably since The Parish Churches of theconvivialities Reformation afterwards. or at least The since fact the that days this of was Queen the firstMary the didn’t want to advertise as Mike Forbester and I wanted First did not go unnoticed. It was quite emotional. Greater London: A Guide includes details on aFriday ‘dry run’ and juststarted to make in July sure 2017. we hadThe everythingvery first service in place we And so we continue. Solemn Evensong each Friday followed The Parish Churches of Greater London and literally were singing off the same song sheet. From church architects, architecture, furnishings, monuments, Week 2 on we decided to advertise and the Sung Evensong monthly Masses are in place as we go from strength to stained glass, and many other interesting facts for over very quickly became a Solemn Evensong with smoke and strength.by communal I have fish been and slowly chips amassingand a bottle our of own sherry. kit asPlanned we do 420 churches. The book is sermon. Numbers began to increase and presently there not want to impose on the graciousness of our hosts and illustrated by over 1,340 are approximately 20 faithful who have been in attendance if God should bless me to serve at the Altar again as priest, colour photographs. at our services but up to 10 on any given day. This has we would be able to offer a weekly Mass. We have come a It is written from a broadly largely been done by a considerable amount of networking, long way in just a few short months and at some point in catholic point of view. particularly amongst the students of York University. We the future we would most warmly welcome an event in the Order forms can be found now have a Facebook Page and are represented on the main North on behalf of the Friends of the Ordinariate of Our Lady online. The book can Ordinariate webpage. of Walsingham. I would like to thank all who have come also be obtained from together to make this Mission possible, rarely have I met Michael Hodges (michael. with so many people of such goodwill. We are truly blessed. Oh, and by the way…we now have our own key! said,The Divine we then Office turned only our has attention so much to kerb the appeal celebration but our of / 0207-937-1601) at a Holyfledgling Mass. flock The have Friends become of the quite Ordinariate enamoured of Our of it, Lady that Laudate Dominum, omnes gentes; laudate eum, omnes populi; [email protected] of £25 plus £4.50 for of Walsingham were good enough to supply us with our quoniam confirmata est super nos misericordia eius et veritas postage and packing. very own Order of Divine Worship Missal and Fr David Domini manet in aeternum. theBoth Crown these ofsymbols Thorns flourish of the Passion within aof twined Our Lord crown Jesus of Christ, violet brambles which can be read at several levels: firstly they are

Page 12 www.friendsoftheordinariate.org.uk www.friendsoftheordinariate.org.uk Page 13 Friends of the Ordinariate – 2018 Spring/Summer Friends of the Ordinariate – 2018 Spring/Summer Forthcoming Events: Ordinariate Lapel Badges Please support the Friends of the Ordinariate First Friday of each month: 8am Mass at Our Lady of the How to Donate: Assumption & St Gregory, Warwick Street offered by the Ordinary for deceased benefactors of the Friends of the The Friends of the Ordinariate support the work Bank Transfer Ordinariate and mission of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady Here are our Bank Details if you would rather donate of Walsingham by providing financial and practical by BACS / bank transfer assistance. We warmly invite all those who share Bank: Lloyds Bank plc 21st February: in the Holy See’s vision of Christian Unity and who Sort code: 30-90-69 Bl. 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All are welcome to support the Ordinariate Scotland Retreat at Schoenstatt Friends of the Ordinariate, be they cradle Catholics, If you have any queries about the above, please do Scotland Retreat and Pilgrimage Centre former members of the Church of England, or those who remain within the Anglican tradition but want not hesitate to contact: The Administrator: admin@ the Ordinariate initiative to flourish. friendsoftheordinariate.org.uk 26th March: Ordinariate Chrism Mass at Our Lady of the Standing Orders Assumption & St. Gregory, Warwick Street For those familiar with the Anglo-Catholic movement Friends of the Ordinariate GIFT AID DECLARATION in the Church of England, lapel badges are an important The Friends encourage supporters to set up regular thing: the Society of Our Lady of Walsingham, The Standing Orders so that we can plan for the future on Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham (Charity No. 25th - 26th April: Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament, The Society of the basis of a regular, predictable, income. 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