Summer 2019 Edition – Issue 11 Friends of the Ordinariate Supporting the Holy See’s Vision for Christian Unity © Carmen Gowie New deacons for the Ordinariate Evensong and Benediction at St Edmund’s College, Cambridge Blessed John Henry Newman Our Guide for Tomorrow Friends of the Ordinariate – Summer 2019 From the Honorary President Dear Friends, The Friends This November marks the 10th on Social Media AnglicanorumAnniversary of Coetibus the publication which The Friends of the Ordinariate are active on social media, ofmade the provisionApostolic forConstitution the erection of “Friends of the Ordinariate”! to enter the full communion especially on Facebook.www.friendsoftheordinariate.org.uk Please like our Facebook page: Ordinariatesof the Catholic for Church groups whilst of Anglicans retaining some traditions, pastoral, Mgr Keith Newton The website is: liturgical, and spiritual which are www.flickr.com/photos/friendsoftheordinariate IfWe your post address pictures has of changedevents on recently Flickr: please notify us at great interest in the Church press at the time not least because [email protected] init was conformity unexpected with and Catholic it provided doctrine. for Itssomething publication in the caused will be a Mass of Thanksgiving to mark this anniversary on Catholic Church which was entirely new and exciting. 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Nor will we use it for anything Yours in Christ, except to furtherMgr our Newton work anoints of fund a raising. next ten years. consecration cross at the dedication of Precious Blood, London Bridge. 1st July, 2019 Richard Hawker Editor: © Carmen Gowie © Carmen The Right Revd Monsignor Keith Newton Design: GADS Limited ThePage Friends2 of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham www.friendsoftheordinariate.org.uk Friends of the Ordinariate – Summer 2019 Chairman’s Message Contents From the President by 2 The Friends of the Ordinariate Mgr Keith Newton became a registered charity on 1st Chairman’s Message held our biggest fund-raising event by 3 July– a reception 2011. Shortly in the afterwards Throne Room we of Peter Sefton-Williams Lord, I am not Worthy 4 & 5 Archbishop’sCardinal Levada, House, the PrefectWestminster, of the New deacons for the Ordinariate inCongregation the presence for of the William Doctrine Joseph of with extensive coverage in the on his ordination day 6 The Rev’d Michael Thompson reflects the Faith. It was a huge success, those present to be generous towards this visionary project Evensong and Benediction at St Edmund’s College, Catholic press. The Cardinal urged Cambridge income today is derived mainly from the regular standing Keir Martland of Pope Benedict XVI. And they were. Our regular monthly by 7 & 8 weorders have set been up inable 2011. to use this money to support projects Visit to Trinity 8 Asranging well asfrom paying extending stipends and towards converting newly-ordained presbyteries; priests, helping towards the cost of new church lighting; ensuring all Fr Ignatius Spencer: “dirty, mad mendicant” part 1 Ordinariate groups have at least one copy of the Ordinariate 9 But while the material needs of the Ordinariate – with around Fr Gerard Skinner explores the life of this deeply Missal and buying new vestments. influential 19th century priest 100 priests – have steadily grown, the income of the Friends Easter around the Ordinariate 10 & 11 hasexpanding failed to requirements, keep pace. Since we needJanuary a growing, we have and granted regular, The Church’s Restoration… in 2018 – new priests a total of £48,000 in stipends. To match these Part 2 12 & 13 particularly important as they allow us to commit funds to the income. 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To find out more about our work, please visit our website www.friendsoftheordinariate.org.uk Page 3 Friends of the Ordinariate – Summer 2019 Lord, I am not Worthy By a layman. One of the many interesting features of the Ordinariate liturgy (Divine Worship, the Missal, 2015, promulgated by our Holy Father Pope Francis) is the retention from immemorial tradition at Holy Communion of the triple “Domine, non sum dignus”, “Lord, I am not worthy that Thou shouldest come under my roof, but speak the Novus Ordo word only, and my soul shall be healed.” The of the Roman Rite, the first Missal in which these words Englishwere codified translation for the somewhat Faithful as diminished a formal part its deeper of the Mass, meaning,had reduced translating this to a thesingle text invocation. in a literalist The way earlier applying 1970 only to the Faithful at Mass, and obscuring the link to the Gospel passage and the words of the Centurion which these quote . The contribution of the Ordinariate Missal is Through years in the pews (and occasionally to my shame therefore significant. watching those around me at this sacred moment) I have been struck by the number of people who at all Masses, even the most modern interpretations of the vernacular Mass, continue discreetly to say a three-fold “Domine, non sum dignus”, nearly imperceptibly striking their breast are people of all generations, not just the young whose traditionalthree times.