Summer 2019 Edition – Issue 11 Friends of the Ordinariate Supporting the ’s Vision for Christian Unity

© Carmen Gowie New for the Ordinariate Evensong and Benediction at St Edmund’s College, Cambridge Blessed 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 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 which was entirely new and exciting. There Have you Gift-Aided your Donation? If you are a UK taxpayer and donate to the Friends of the Saturdayparish is under9th November the care ofat theThe Ordinariate Church of the and Most the priest,Precious Fr Ordinariate, we can claim 25p from HMRC for every £1 Blood,Christopher O’Meara Pearson, Street, has in Borough,achieved Southa great . deal in theThis last 8

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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 of

with extensive coverage in the on his ordination day 6 The Rev’d 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 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. While all donations are welcome, standing orders are Blessed John Henry Newman Our Guide If at all possible, could you consider setting up a small, regular, for Tomorrow 14 – 17 standingOrdinariate order with to more help uscertainty. to fund the growing needs of the Forthcoming Events 17 Ordinariate? You will find the standing order form at the back Chairman,of this newsletter. Friends of the Ordinariate Edwin Ronald Barnes (1935-2019) Peter Sefton-Williams by 18 ofHow Our Lady we of Walsingham help the Ordinariate Please support the Friends of the Ordinariate How to Donate: 19 The Friends of the Ordinariate are predominantly non-

grants which help support projects of the Personal Ordinariate Catholics. They raise funds in order to make also organise events to raise awareness of what the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. The Friends

costOrdinariate of the installation is doing. of the organ at Most Precious Blood Church,Recent grantsLondon have Bridge included and a financegrant for to the cover purchase part of of the a whoTHE arePORTAL interested is a free in theon-line Ordinariate publication and and all Catholic is aimed friends at those in the Personal Ordinariates of the Catholic Church, Anglicans new white cope, stole, and humeral veil for processions. of every month of the year and has an average readership Theywe continue were used to support for the firsttwo newtime priestsfor the withinprocession the in of the Ordinariates. THE PORTAL is published on the first day central London on the feast of Corpus Christi. In addition, of 7,300 every month. It covers News, Events, Personalities,

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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. credentials Contrary to are what now one well may known imagine (if not these universally acknowledged!) but also the older generation, my own and above, who have willingly adopted so many

practised by numerous and , including Pope So, what was once a liturgical act has in effect become a other of the changes.

Over the centuries devotional practices and pious ChristologicalSt John Paul II. piety St Louis-Marie which go back, did not so inventhe tells this us, devotion;over pious private devotion. Why? interpretations have grown up around the various parts he only illuminated and codified practices of Marian-

700 years to Odilon of Cluny, and were followed by of the Mass. Many such have been lost in recent years; this several religious orders over the intervening centuries. one seems determined to stay. Let us look at some possible We are told by a writer in the 17th century that “English methods by which it may bring spiritual fruits. Catholics were noted for the practice of this devotion.” Montfort was born in the small town of that name in that it leads us to a deeper understanding of the Mass and Brittany;In the late he 17th was century to become one Louis-Marie of the great Grignion guides of de the toAs adorationMarian devotion of the Holy leads Eucharist, us to Christ, when so we arecan correctlysee that interior life, and zealous promoter of devotion to Our Lady through his texts ‘True Devotion to Mary’, ‘The Secret of devotion has its ultimate goal in Holy Communion, the Mary’ and ‘The Secret of the Rosary’. disposed. Thus it might be said that a person’s Marian founder of the Congregation of the Blessed-, and All are still in print. Sacrament of Salvation. As Saint Pierre-Julien Eymard (the devotion to Jesus Christ, as she exists only to give honour As St Louis-Marie would tell us, devotion to Mary is the Vatican Council), writes, “Mary has the mission to take canonised by Pope St John XXIII in 1962 at the opening of mother are inseparable, she derived all she has from her Sonto Him who from created whom her, she and received He derived everything. His humanity Christ andsolely His Saint Louis-Marie ends his treatise on Devotion with the us by the hand to lead us to the Tabernacle.” correct manner to apply these Marian exercises to our more closely united than any other human being can be to reception of Holy Communion, our daily encounter with from her body and blood; their flesh is one; their souls St Louis-Marie’s practice of “Total Consecration to Jesus the Godhead. the Godhead. through Mary” sums up all his teaching, and has been we can receive her Son there, because He desires always We are to implore our Mother to lend us her heart, so that

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to come to where she is, to unite Himself to her, just as He For the Faithful within the Ordinariates, before the “Lord, came to her in the womb at His Conception, and rested in I am not worthy” we shall have said the wonderful Prayer his bloodied way to His sacred Passion on Calvary, He could the same words of the Centurion, and combined with the her bosom in the stable in Bethlehem. Indeed as He made of Humble Access, which is of course derived in part from So as we are about to receive Holy Communion, we recite not neglect one last human embrace in her arms. Greek woman’s reply “Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children’s crumbs.” Yet this prayer, first found in Louis-Marie, we address to the Eternal Father, admitting Eucharistic doctrine, has the character of a liturgical prayer, Cranmer’s Communion Rite of 1548 for all its (surprising) ourthree unworthiness times “Lord, andI am our not evil worthy.” thoughts, The first,and asking following Him St to in addressing itself directly to Our Lord, taking advantage behold Mary, his handmaid, who acts for us, our advocate, beseeching His mercy on behalf of the whole Church, very particularlyof that confidence making which the prayer Christ for has “us”; given a corporateto His Church, prayer, and and who gives us singular confidence and hope before His The second “Lord, I am not worthy” we address to the Divine Majesty. private prayer and internal devotions, must surely do well Christ the Son, (“you will say to the Son”, as the Saint toas seekOur Lord also theHimself assistance gives us and the comfort Our Father. of that But Mother we, in andour instructs us ) that our unworthiness comes from our these words He gives us a mother with all the duties and about to bring Him into the house of His Mother, and ours, Advocate He has given us : “Woman, behold thy Son”; in idleness and infidelity, and beg His mercy, because we are and that we will not let Him leave until He comes to lodge way when we add the Hail Mary to the Our Father in our with her in our hearts, echoing the Song of , “till privateambitions prayer, of motherhood. alone in our We rooms, do this a thing in exactly which the never same I bring him to my Mother’s house and the chamber of her we wish to prepare effectively for Holy Communion, and we fruitfullyoccurs aloud do so in through the public this liturgy. meditation This we upon can the and “Lord, must Ido am if that bore me”. You ask Him to come into you as into the ark of His sanctification, taking no note of your merits, but only So we see that through these devotions we enter into the of the virtues of His Mother. Remember, this is where He not worthy.” yearns to be. fullness of our Faith, into the heart of the Holy Trinity, for assuring Him that we are not worthy to receive this Our Lady leads us to the Trinity by virtue of her perfection, masterpieceThirdly, we say of His“Lord, charity, I am notbecause worthy” of our to thelukewarmness Holy Ghost, and our resistance to His spiritual inspirations, but that moment of her Conception, and where now, by the great for it is there that she herself wishes to dwell, from the first saying with St Bernard, “She is my greatest security, she we place all our confidence in Mary His faithful spouse, “throughprivilege grantedwhom we to haveher at been her countedAssumption, worthy she to intercedes receive the Himself into Mary his inseparable spouse, into her heart authorfor us for of alllife”, eternity. we prepare In this our way, hearts, by the which intercession are by the of effecther whichis the source is pure of and all burningmy hope.” with We love can for ask Him, Him because also to come worthy dwelling-place meet for her Son”, and to receive Him inof sinthe somanner terribly that unready she herself for their receives Holy Him,Guest, and to therebybecome “a without the Holy Spirit neither Jesus nor Mary will find a Then when we make our Holy Communion, with our heart worthy dwelling in our hearts. directed towards its true Hope, we introduce Jesus into In this way, so we may hope, by the example of excellence “receive the joys of everlasting life.” Mary’s bosom, like placing the infant Jesus lovingly into the so desired by Pope Benedict XVI, both in piety and liturgical Crib at Christmas, adoring Him and loving Him perfectly, in a spirit of homage unknown to us if we remain alone review of the Roman Missal, and help to restore more widely apractice, worthy Divinereception Worship: of the TheHoly Missal Eucharist, may inenrich many a placesfuture so we might in a garden, silently watching the King speaking toin thehis Queen,darkness and of marvel our own that feeble this efforts.miracle Or is happeningwe will sit asin So let us encourage priests of the Ordinariate, who it seems badly needed. of Jesus for the coming of His kingdom on earth, through have a very particular devotion to Our Blessed Mother — Hisour holyheart, Mother, because or theyask Himwill forit to wisdom, happen. love, Or we pardon, will ask or who else led them into the Church, if not her? — to use the option given in Divine Worship, The Missal to say the “Lord, I or saying with Saint John-the-Baptist, “My Jesus, you must am not worthy” three times , that they, and we, may daily at specific graces; and ask him “Lord, look not at my sins”; Holy Communion enter deeper, with Mary, into the mystery increase and I must decrease.” As Saint Louis-Marie tells Our Lady of Walsingham, Mother, Daughter and Spouse of the of the Holy Trinity. us “there are an infinity of other thoughts which the Holy Most Holy Trinity, intercede for us. Ghost furnishes… if we are thoroughly interior, mortified and faithful.” www.friendsoftheordinariate.org.uk Page 5 Friends of the Ordinariate – Summer 2019

New deacons for the Ordinariate

TheThe diaconal Rev’d ordination Michael of January Thompson was quite simply an reflects on his ordination day

relocatedThis journey with has much led meupheaval from my and native anxiety Ireland to , to Wales inspiration. Benedictines for our pre-ordination retreats; they aand land . I had not Most known recently, since almost my undergraduate three years ago, days I in Alastair Ferguson, John Tee and I each sought out the

to Buckfast and Ampleforth respectively and I to St Andrews. All culminated on that Saturday morning in Farnborough. My chequered past had taken me there Warwick Street. before and the generous Abbot had observed my ‘ups and Mgr Newton was disarming and gracious as ever, downs’; or perhaps my ‘ins and outs’! - with patience, foraffirming a Celt suchhis three as I to(rather be ordained elderly) by candidates the titular as he of generosity, and prayerful friendship. a true powerhouse of prayer where the liturgy is offered Lindisfarne,introduced us and to howBishop good John and Wilson. gracious How that moving bishop it waswas inFarnborough that same spirit Abbey, and that observance little piece which of France has so in informedSurrey is The Mass was heady, the music tremendous, the support to we three. It was with extraordinary nervousness that on the of so many friends present, and the prayers of so many what we call ‘The Anglican Patrimony’. morning of Saturday 18th January I donned clerical dress again after six years and travelled by Tube to the ordered by Father Elliot Smith and Richard Hawker; underthere only the watchfulin spirit, iftangible. sympathetic The liturgy gaze (from was superbly the nave) of the Ceremoniere whenAssumption in cassock and andSt Gregory, collar I Warwickmade my Street. way to My Llandaff head was of the London Oratory. I believe we filled (I have a long memory) with parallel events in 1979 It would always have been a most special day for we Ordinariate types passed the test. Cathedral to seek ordination as an Anglican . Cathedral, and the ministry which followed them, had happily proceeded to priestly ordination in June (Deo broughtThe precious untold events blessings of June and 1979 graces, and and 1980 for in them Llandaff I gratiasthree but I suspect more so for me. While the other two priestly apostolate intended for me when application as made to) IRome did not. for Medicalmy ordination opinion and advised so it is against that I willthe ordinationhad only thankfulness. as a Catholic What deacon I had because sought of to them, do then and I was seeking to do now. I was only on the threshold of one for which I remain eternally grateful as I recall a very likely remain a deacon. That is a great privilege; of the many people whom God had so often sent as his messengers in bringing them. never-to-be-forgotten day.

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Evensong and Benediction at St Edmund’s College, Cambridge

Keir Martland

EvensongOn 29th April and 2018,Benediction the Friends in the of Chapel the Ordinariate of St Edmund’s and the design: two friends from the Chaplaincy, and a few members Cambridge Ordinariate Group put together a service of Scholarof the Peterhouse of Homerton Choir. College, At the who organ, gave as us usual Howells’ for the Paean as a Cambridge Group, was Christopher Baczkowski, Senior Organ College, Cambridge. The service was to mark – in the form The setting, which is where we have for the last two terms of First Evensong of the Solemnity, i.e. the day before – the voluntary, and accompanied the chant quite beautifully. transferred St George’s Day; the Rev’d Professor Allen Brent, pleasing for Evensong and Benediction for at least two Patristics scholar and Cambridge Group Pastor, presided, had our Divine Worship Vigil Masses, was particularly and the recently priested Rev’d Dr Michael Ward, C.S. Lewis scholar and Assistant Priest at Holy Rood, Abingdon Road, The music and general feel of the service, for a number of groupsreasons. worship First and in foremost,Catholic churches this is both and a chapels,College Chapelbecause Oxford, preached and precented. reasons – including the last-minute nature of the organisation and a Roman Catholic chapel. It is essential that Ordinariate and the size of the Chapel – was that of what we might call that’s where Christ is reserved in the Tabernacle. Even if the perhaps appropriate for our small but tight-knit Ordinariate local Anglican church is prettier; what a joy to have such a ‘parish Evensong’ rather than ‘cathedral Evensong’, which was setting which is also an Oxbridge Chapel. Second, the Chapel or can be, more’; the nuts and bolts of the service came is not unattractive, it being in the Neo-Gothic style, with a decent-sized sanctuary. fromGroup. Frere Musically, and Briggs’ we worked Manual on of the Plainsong, principle the that Magnificat ‘less is, collected by yours truly earlier that day from Blackfriars and Nunc Dimittis were set to a couple of well-known The very fine cope worn by Professor Brent had been while until he returned with “the goods”, a not very old but Priory. Fr Aidan Nichols parked me in his study for a short Anglican chants by Parry and Nares respectively. We sang singingonly the O office Salutaris hymn Hostia at Evensong, to Jerusalem and had in a hymn Catholic tunes chapel! at lovely red cope and stole, which I was to return at 7.30pm TheBenediction. makeshift There choir was was something all-male, though rather notsplendid necessarily about by immediately after the service! The Group is very grateful to Fr Aidan and the friars for the loan of these valuable vestments. Why, the inner-Anglican in you might ask, did www.friendsoftheordinariate.org.uk Page 7 Friends of the Ordinariate – Summer 2019 we need to borrow a cope? Surely the vestry at St Edmund’s

Saidwould humeral have one! veil, No, naturally, we left allwas that acquired behind by when our Ordinariatewe left the CofE. Said vestry does, however, have a humeral veil in stock.

Group Pastor during his spell as Acting Dean of the College. inAh, his yes, cheek)! humeral veils and copes – Patrimony we must share with the wider Roman Church (he said with his tongue firmly For many of us, the delightfully eccentric, academic, yet romp,accessible preaching sermon on from the textFr Ward from will the beBook what of Revelation,we remember “I most clearly. The scholar-priest gave us an Inkling-ridden will write on him who conquers in the name of God.” To whet your appetite, the sermon began: andHave this you boy, ever whose wondered name what was Dan,the name and who of God had is? a brotherA little boy in Sunday school was once asked what was the name of God, Visit to Trinity short for Daniel, and Mike was short for Michael, and Liz was Mike, and a sister Liz, put two and two together. If Dan was short for Elizabeth, God must be short for Godfrey! On Tuesday 19th March 2019 Peter Sefton-Williams and But God’s name is not Godfrey. What is God’s name? Nicolas Ollivant accompanied the Ordinary Mgr Keith Newton (President of the Friends of the Ordinariate) Perhaps you would say the name of God is “I AM WHO I AM”. Thison a visitportrait to Oxford. was a copy Our firstmade stop by thewas daughter Trinity College of to The name revealed to at the Burning Bush. “I AM view the portrait of the Bl John Henry Newman. theWHO top I AMof the . . . classThis is– andmy namejump foroff (asever Spike and thusMilligan I am liked to be to remembered throughout all generations.” Good answer. Go to the then President of Trinity in 1878 to celebrate the George say). But that’s not the answer I’m looking for. Birminghaminstallation of Oratory the Bl JH and Newman a copy isas in an the honorary Church fellowof Our of the college. The original of this portrait hangs at the God’s name is… . And the full text can be found on the Cambridge Ordinariate Lady of the Assumption and St Gregory, Warwick Street, website, https://cambridgeordinariate.wordpress.com/ inLondon which W1. the HeCardinal was the was first held person at Oxford to be but so honouredalso the factby Trinity that the and young it reflected John Henry not only came the up very to Trinity high regard in After the service, we repaired to the Huddleston Room to empty several bottles of wine. (Or at least, everyone else did. I had a cope to return…) There, I saw a few familiar faces: a The Portal 1816 as an undergraduate at the age of 15. Outside his Continuing(both trustees Anglican of the ministerFriends); friend Richard of mine,Hawker, the and editors Robert of Followingformer rooms our invisit the to Garden Trinity Quad we met stands up for a bronze lunch at bust magazine; Nicolas Ollivant; Peter Sefton-Williams of the Bl John Henry. Tickle. Quite a few people, then, had come a long way for the service. But many more had not (indeed, one congregant Quod with three members of the Oxford Newman had only to come downstairs from his room in College). Society, Giovanni Pala (President), Jamie Wilmore (past was quickly nabbed by Ronald Crane for a Portal startedPresident) his andacademic Peter careerJuhasz. when After helunch became we walked a fellow over of When, at length I got to the Huddleston Room for a drink, I to Oriel College to visit the chapel. The Bl John Henry are cradle Catholics, one or two English, but most interview. of them Italian,I explained Spanish, to him Polish that etcthe bulk of the Cambridge Group VirginOriel in on 1822. the High Street where the Bl John Henry was university town like Cambridge, non-English Catholics We also visited the University Church of St Mary the . In a multiculturalEnglish yet historic The canonisation of the Bl John Henry later this year will other services of the Ordinariate in Cambridge, we are told, University Chaplain until he resigned his post in 1843. are looking for something, well… . The Masses and of course lead to a number of major events in Oxford founded by Sir Thomas Pope during the reign of Queen provide just that. This, it seems to me, gets right to the Maryto celebrate I as a place this important for the education event. Trinityof young College (Catholic) was someheart offamily Pope heirloom, Benedict’s but vision a “treasure of how to the be Ordinariates shared” with fit the priests following the example of Durham College which into the New Evangelisation; our liturgical patrimony is not it – I am thinking in particular of the York Mission – because that a college which was a Catholic foundation should wider Church. The Cambridge Mission, and other groups like haveformerly played occupied such an the important site of Trinity role in College. the life Itof is one fitting of this country’s foremost theologians and a soon to be theyof their will size, come’; are therenecessarily has to ‘atbe thea demand mercy’ for,of sympathetic a sympathy cradle Catholics. It’s not simply a case of ‘buildDeo itgratias and , in October 9th the day of his reception into the Catholic canonised saint. The feast day of the Bl John Henry is towards, and an interest in our patrimony. Cambridge, there is. We’re all immensely grateful to the Church in 1845. The Bl John Henry died in 1890. FriendsPage 8 for their continued support. www.friendsoftheordinariate.org.uk Friends of the Ordinariate – Summer 2019

Fr Ignatius Spencer: “dirty, mad mendicant” part 1

Son of a former First Lord of the Admiralty, brother of Catholic Church and was sent to English College, Frboth Gerard a former ChancellorSkinner of explores the Exchequer the and life of the of this Rome,deeply for two influential years of studies 19thbefore being century ordained priesta priest governess to Queen Victoria’s children, the Reverend & Honourable George Spencer (Ignatius was to be his name later in life) was received into the Catholic Church on 26th May 1832. His Rector, , had the fifteen years before Blessed John Henry Newman. Fr tohighest the truth, opinion not ofonly him, for writing his own ‘He sake, is candour but for the and salvation openness of Spencer has mostly been known as a great, great, great itself... I have no doubt that Divine Providence has brought him uncle of Princess Diana and a great uncle of Sir Winston For most of the next seven years of his life, Spencer worked Churchill. That he may well be Britain’s next beatus others, so that in his conversion “many shall rejoice”.’ suggests that there is much more that we can learn away the income which his father had made provision for his about this remarkable nineteenth century figure who on the mission in , living an ascetic life, giving for some was ‘a dirty, mad mendicant’ and for others no less than a saint. son. A convert of Spencer’s from this time recalled, ‘his sublime instructions taught me how to pray for the grace of God to heguide was me going to his to truevisit Church.the poor He and was sick, ever he persecuted had to pass and a boys’ inBy British the time Society of George with Spencer’s regards political, birth on social 21st Decemberand cultural nobly overcame his enemies. I remember one morning when 1799, the Spencers were one of the most prominent families seeing he did not take any notice, they came into the road and - was, at this time, First school, at Hill Top. They used to hoot after him low names but, influence. George Spencer’s father – the second Earl Spencer butthrew went mud on and all daystones as usual, at him: through he took Oldbury, no notice. Tipton Then Dudley, they Lord of the Admiralty and took hold of his coat and ripped it up the back. He did not mind it was at Admiralty House Havingin London been that baptised George, a his poorand Hill sick, Top, and visiting return his home poor about people. six inHe the used evening, to leave without home memberyoungest of son, the was Church born. of takingevery morning, any refreshment and fill his all pocketsday, though with he wine might and have food walked for the

earliest years were spent gave all his clothes away to the poor, except those that he had betweenEngland, theGeorge family’s Spencer’s twenty miles in the heat of the summer. One winter’s day he on, money was soon given away.’ Other accounts recall how great houses of Althorp in Spencer ‘visited the sick constantly’ and, should he ever see ParkNorthamptonshire, in London and Spencera villa someone come to his church whom he did not recognize ‘he House on the edge of Green Towardswould find the them end outof 1838 at their Spencer own houses.’,initiated the a campaign writer reflecting of educated at prayerthat ‘I believe for the thatconversion he brought of England, many that a theme way into that the he Church.’was beforein Wimbledon. being sent He to was live and study with a private anxious not only to solicit the prayers of English Catholics but,to preach during passionately the following about decades for the he resttoured of his northern life. He Europewas promoting prayers for this intention, the campaign itself tutor, the Rev’d Dr Charles Blomfield, the future reforming Bishop of London. At the age of 17, Spencer continued his From an early age Spencer felt called to ministry in the education at Trinity College, Cambridge. reaching as far as British Guyana, Jamaica and Persia. He also Spencerencouraged is considered Anglicans, by such many as Newman as the pioneer (in 1840), of ecumenical to join in the prayer campaign, seeking unity in the truth of Christ. , finally being ordained as an Anglican for England, touring around Ireland for months at a time hepriest became in 1824. increasingly For next fiverestless and asa half he soughtyears he to ministeredunderstand preachingprayer. Most of ofthe all, value he sought of the prayersto enlist of the a peopleprayers that of the felt Irish in the parish of the family estate at Althorp. During this time tireless in his ministering to the spiritual and physical needs the mysteries that are revealed in Sacred Scripture. He was persecuted for their oppressors. timesof his parishioners.he gave them Oneall the account money of he this had, time and records, stripped ‘His himself great Another distinctive aspect of Spencer’s spirituality was ofcharity his clothes to the topoor give and them wandering to the distressed; beggars was and unbounded. when he had At thanksgiving: ‘He always came and went rejoicing and andthanking amongst God hisand brother trying topriests, make thisothers was do clearly so too.’, a notewrote of Spencer’sone friend. spirituality Throughout that his grew many ever letters stronger of spiritual as his directionlife henothing would to call give, forth he wouldtears from thank the God poor he objectshad only of his misery holy whotruth to impart, and would speak of the love of God so fervently, that progressed. Father Ignatius Spencer came many miles to beg money or clothes of him.’ To be continued. – English Noble and Christian Saint, Spencer’s quest for truth finally came to a head thanks to his Fr Gerard Skinner is the author of becoming acquainted with the 21 year old Phillipps Gracewing Publishing, de Lisle. On 30th January 1830 Spencer was received into the www.friendsoftheordinariate.org.uk £17.99. Page 9 Friends of the Ordinariate – Summer 2019

Easter around the Ordinariate

Palm Sunday at Warwick Street

Maundy Thursday at Pembury

Good Friday at Pembury Good Friday at Most Precious Blood

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Southend Good Friday Easter Vigil at Most Precious Blood

Easter Vigil at Pembury Easter vigil Southend

Warwick Street Easter Sunday Southend Easter garden

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The Church’s Restoration… in 2018 – Part 2

The Ordinariate and Parish Church of the Most Precious Blood (MPB) is located in a vibrant part of London just south of London Bridge near to Borough Market, the Globe Theatre and Tate Modern. The , , placed the Parish in the care of the Ordinariate in January 2013. This is the second report on the extensive renovation which has been taking place.

As the last edition of this magazine went to press the stone flooring was nearing completion at the Ordinariate and Parish Church of the Most Precious Blood, London SE1. This simple limestone and marble floor has brought a great feeling of light and calmness to the Nave and dignity to the Chancel and Sanctuary. To protect the floor from scaffolding poles and stray paint experiencethe floor had throughout to be covered the winterwith plywood. months Thebut ittemporary has been hearteninglighting, flooring to welcome and seating worshippers made for on a Sundays grim worship and during

The electricians (CES Lighting LLP) installed all the trunking the week who have braved the conditions. and cabling before the painting was done so that as much as with many layers of paint of various types and vintages possible could be concealed. The contract painters battled loose paint was chipped off and stabilizing treatments which had adhered in some places and not in others. All Font and High Altar done during Lent which brought to mind a fundraising applied before repainting. Most of the painting work was own the Parish Priest, in particular, was overjoyed to be able to depute a server to push just one button to bring the poster seen outside an Anglo-Catholic Church in New York lights from zero to full brightness smoothly in 5 seconds (Smokey Mary’s) - Sinners repaint; go and thin no more. lighting installed for Easter and indeed we were able to use The goal was to have the decorating finished and the audible gasps! at the Easter Vigil. There were unconfirmed reports of duringthe lighting the singing system of for the the Pange first timelingua on helped Maundy to Thursday.shift the A very gradual pre-programmed dimming of the lights Around half of the cost of the lighting and rewiring was met generousby a grant support of £49,500 and from to the Viridor Friends Credits of the under Ordinariate the Landfill who mood and focus of worshippers from the High Altar to the agreedCommunities to be our Fund. sponsoring We are very “Third grateful Party to Contributor” them for their for place of reposition. on of lights from different locations and coping with the the Viridor grant; making a contribution of £5,000 to the Having struggled for 6 years to coordinate the switching vagaries of flickering fluorescent tubes with a mind of their project. Thank you! Page 12 www.friendsoftheordinariate.org.uk Friends of the Ordinariate – Summer 2019

The restored pews installation and lighting system is that it has been possible, withA pleasing a little aspect imagination of both and the persuasion,earlier sound to systemhide all the andwiring not and seen! to place the fittings where they are not visually obtrusive. As a general rule, sound systems should be heard The pews returned from their period of refreshment and refurbishment in Scarisbrick (Ormsby’s Ltd) joined by six new pews and front kneelers ready for Easter. Altar rails/ kneelers are also on order. Ormsby’s have also refurbished the brass “Big Six” Altar candlesticks and the Paschal Candle Stand. They are currently restoring a recently acquired Eagle The church in twilight (All photos by Christopher Smith) Lectern for us. natural focus of the building and the lighting scheme has The Altar, Tabernacle and Baldachino rightly form the been designed to emphasise this. The Baldachino is being newThe Archbishopstone consecration of Southwark crosses is andto consecrated candle sconces the churchbrought on 1st July 2019, to a packed church. The installation of the artisticdecorated decoration and paint which removed promises from theto be High quite Altar visually to return it to a stone finish. Mr Stephen Bellion is undertaking this However, there is always more to do and we are currently to a close this phase of the restoration of the interior fabric. forming a worthy home for the Most Holy Sacrament of the striking; the Baldachino, Altar and Tabernacle together Please consider contributing, there are many other generous donor who is a member of the Ordinariate as an raising funds to install a pipe organ in the West gallery. Altar. This considerable piece of work is being paid for by a www.preciousblood.org.uk/restoration.html (smaller!) items listed on the Parish website: act of thanksgiving. . www.friendsoftheordinariate.org.uk Page 13 Friends of the Ordinariate – Summer 2019

Blessed John Henry Newman Our Guide for Tomorrow

On the 15th October, 2018, as part of the gathering of the three Ordinaries of the Personal Ordinariates in London, Fr Ignatius Harrison, Provost of the Birmingham Oratory, gave a keynote address, which was followed by a Q&A session and then a reception with the three Ordinaries. This highly successful event was organised by the Friends of the Ordinariate, and we are pleased to be able to publish the text of Fr. Ignatius’s talk in full.

It is always a privilege to be associated in any way with the

person,In this connexion working hard the greatest not just threatto make of humans all is human better, cloning. faith and witness of the Ordinariates. I would like to suggest ‘They’ are already working hard to improve the human some frontsof the waysthe future that Newman, of our species your isPatron, looking can perilous, help and humanity to face our dangerous future. Why? Because on but far more dangerously, to make better humans. This is disturbingly reminiscent of Friedrich Nietzsche’s mad considerwe’re going two to current need all examples the help ofwe the can dangers get. To illustratethat humanity why race,ideology a race about of supermen, the future the of humanity. übermensch Because God was the world of tomorrow needs Newman’s influence, let us dead, Nietzsche said, we humans had to become a super or ‘overman’. We First, the future of our race is threatened by our is now facing. no longer needed God because we would now shape reality and control the world using our own super powers. super-humans with super-powers? By his insistence that our ‘trans-humanization’.irresponsible meddling That with is tothe say, God-given attempting nature to improve of the How can Newman help us resist the madness of wanting to be thehuman building person. blocks That of meddling human physiology is now breezily and the referred human to as mind, by genetic engineering, biochemical nano-technology, true humanity consists in our total dependency on our Maker. cerebral prosthetics, neurological implants, and numerous theAt an start early of agehis life-longhe was convinced I-Thou relationship of the primordial with his reality Maker, of two beings above all else: his Creator and himself. That was other narcissistic tamperings. Unfortunately this process is relative to which all else was secondary. Newman expounded way,not science but the fiction longer still term in outcomethe future, cannot it’s a bepath anything that we but are a this throughout his life; that our human nature cannot fulfill already on. Yes, there may be medical benefits along the itself. Only our personal one-on-one relationship with our Creator can disclose the true meaning of our existence. He radical dehumanization. expressed this in one of his Anglican sermons: Page 14 www.friendsoftheordinariate.org.uk Friends of the Ordinariate – Summer 2019

“….we need to escape from ourselves to something beyond; manifestation of the world which is not seen. We know that and much as we….. may try to make idols to ourselves, nothing what we see is as a screen hiding from us God and Christ, and short of God’s presence is our true refuge; everything else is His and Angels. And we earnestly desire and pray for either a mockery, or but an expedient useful for its season or the dissolution of all that we see, from our longing after that in its measure.” which we do not see.” “Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses Humanity is now busily constructing these two gigantic decay, the world changes, friends die. One alone is constant; follies: tampering with the human person, and trespassing One alone is true to us;…..One alone can be all things to us; into knowledge which lies beyond the territory of our One alone can supply our needs; One alone can train us up stewardship. Those follies are now rising up before us like two to our full perfection; One alone can give a meaning to our new towers of Babel. Newman’s sober intellect helps us to see complex and intricate nature; One alone can give us tune and the foolishness of such aspirations, while also helping us to harmony; One alone can form and possess us.” avoid the cul-de-sac of a closed mind. He certainly was not a luddite or an enemy of science. By contrast, the current scramble to manufacture better “I wish the intellect to range with the utmost freedom, and (PPS, no.22. The Thought of God, the Stay of the Soul) bodies and to grow enhanced brains is yet another instance religion to enjoy an equal freedom; but what I am stipulating of that narcissism which the human race is so prone to, the for is, that they should be found in one and the same place, and exemplified in the same persons. ……It will not satisfy me, what satisfies so many, to have two independent systems, worship of self. In a word – idolatry. intellectual and religious, going at once side by side, by a sort A second peril threatening our future is our lunatic of division of labour, and only accidentally brought together. It will not satisfy me, if religion is here, and science there, astronomers,aspiration to gad and around physicists, the cosmos.are telling Nobody us that denies the universe that isthe much cosmos bigger is highly and far intriguing. stranger Daythan by we day, had cosmologists, ever previously and young men converse with science all day, and lodge with religion in the evening….. I want the same roof to contain both dark matter, worm holes, string theory with its ten hidden the intellectual and moral discipline…I want the intellectual imagined. They speak airily of the multiverse, of dark energy, layman to be religious, and the devout ecclesiastic to be think they might have discovered about the known universe, intellectual.” thedimensions, more obvious and much it becomes else. The that more most they of it tell is in us fact what wholly they Intellect, the Instrument of Religious Training. [From his sermon: If we can avoid turning ourselves into a race of cloned unknown. Regrettably, that does not deter us from wanting Dublin, 1856] mutants, and if we can resist the insanity of wanting to to wander around in it. Hence the foolishness of the so- colonize other worlds, we might just have the chance of called ‘space missions’: intruding where we do not belong. We need to recall that the Almighty gave our first parents essential task is to prepare for the life of the world to dominion over this earth. We are stewards of this earth, of Our cosmological trespassing is a manifestation of the a safe and healthy future in this world. In this world, our this world. It rests on the conviction that we have a human right welcomecome. We this do that opportunity by the practice to explain of the why Christian I believe religion, that the tohuman possess lust all for possible esoteric knowledge, knowledge. and That a capacityis gnosticism. to Ordinariatesthe one true religion,have a providential as taught by contribution the Catholic to Church. make toI a us to think that life is explicable and humans are perfectible simplyunderstand by the all acquisition mysteries. ofThis more new and gnosticism more complex encourages healthy Catholic future. Newman was the patriarchal figure within Anglo- Catholicism. Yes, he left it, but he is still a major point of information. This lust sabotages the pursuit of true supernatural realities that lie beyond what we see with our reference in what happened to it. And what did happen to it? knowledge. True knowledge is the discernment of those leadership of the Oxford Movement has now borne fruit in Here we all are! The Ordinariates exist because Newman’s eyes and with our space probes. vaster proportions of spiritual reality over the material a wonderful way that nobody in his day ever envisaged. The Newman consistently asserts the primacy and infinitely Ordinariates are a significant slice of Newman’s vast legacy. called ‘The Invisible World’ Newman is your . One cannot but wonder “Thewhy all universe. In his Anglican days he wrote a memorable sermon “….in spite of this universal world which we see, there is Newmanthe Ordinariates Prelature”. were not named after him. Of course that : would require a bold new canonical configuration: another world, quite as far-spreading, quite as close to us, and Since the happy day when the Ordinariates were more wonderful; another world all around us, though we see established, perhaps I am not alone in being puzzled by the it not, and more wonderful than the world we see… weasel words ‘Anglican liturgical and spiritual patrimony’. “We are looking for the coming of the day of God, when all this outward world, fair though it be, shall perish; when the sundry times and in divers manners have been ascribed to heavens shall be burnt, and the earth melt away. We can bear Not the phrase itself, but the different meanings which at the loss, for we know it will be but the removing of a veil. “The Strange Case of We know that to remove the world which is seen, will be the theit. 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knowI also venturewhether to it suggestwas pastoral that magnificent concerns or though ecclesiastical it is, this politics,splendid or Missal both, should that led be to seen the inclusionas a work of in various progress. I don’t

reformationist elements composed by Cranmer, as distinct Cranmerian inventions. By ‘inventions’ I mean thePrayer specifically of Humble Access and other similar prayer-book inventions arefrom beautiful his superb linguistically, translations but of they earlier sit uneasilytexts. His within the

hope that such elements might be made entirely optional, in a futuretraditional edition? structure of the Mass. Would it be too much to “the clarity of his insights and teaching shed precious light on the problems of the ChurchIn 1964 today.” Pope Saint I respectfully Paul VI said suggest of Newman, that in some aspects the The Strange Case of the Elusive Patrimony started when

sacred liturgy is now one of those problems. Perhaps it was Anglo-Catholicism lost its distinctive identity in the 1960s not such a problem when in 1964 Paul VI was speaking. But and 70s. I’m not sure about other countriesa great multitude but in this ofnow, knots’ fifty is years a phrase on, there which do the seem Holy to Father be various himself theological has used in whichcountry no it man certainly could lostnumber, it. From all rushed the 1960s forward onwards, like so a and ecclesiastical knots that need to be untied. ‘The untying manygreat multitudelemmings, of in Anglo-Catholics, imitation of something they then called other contexts. toppled headlong over the cliffs of de-sacralisation and ProprioA notable Summorum untying of Pontificum knots was achievedCura. That with papal the legislation ‘modern Rome’. The lemmings rushed forward and then initiatedpromulgation a wonderful by Pope restoration Benedict XVI of justicein 2007 and of thepastoral Motu had kept their nerve when so many others were going secularisation, most of all in worship. If only Anglo-Catholics preserve that exquisite treasury of faith and worship which charity. But even so, let us not make the mistake of mental. If only Anglo-Catholics had made greater efforts to we know as The English Missal. therefrigerating liturgical treasuresit, as if it were of so the many end Catholic of a process. centuries No, it are was no rather the unblocking of a log-jam. Thanks to that unblocking, Summorum Pontificum. I’m also thatThe finesttreasure patrimony was forged of when The English is the treasure-troveMissal came to surelonger that forbidden he would fruit, encourage no longer us ato museum-piece. look beyond it, Iand am tosure of traditional Anglo-Catholic worship. The precious core of undertakethat Newman even rejoices bolder over pastoral initiatives, as circumstances birth in 1912. It then evolved, getting better and better with each subsequent edition. Its use of Sarum and Tridentine require. Englishliturgical Missal texts wasin Cranmerian the bedrock English of those fired edifying and sustained decades isWhat surely further not unreasonable, pastoral initiative nor Imight hope circumstancesdisloyal, to stand require? back when,the Anglo-Catholic in the words movement of Sir John withBetjeman, remarkable the faith success. was The Here is one suggestion. After fifty years of liturgical reform, it taught, and fanned to a golden blaze. Then came the hasty itand is nowtake opportunestock. An honest for the stock-taking universal Church reveals to a re-engage huge number of liturgical knots that need untying. I propose the following: reforms of the late 1960s and 1970s. The reformers piped with the Tridentine liturgy, but not in Latin and the lemmings jumped. But let us be fair. It wasn’t just we should be looking to the future within the perspectives delineated by the Holy Father in his splendid. In Motu this Proprio regard courageAnglican or lemmings the honesty who to jumped. question Roman the glaring lemmings discontinuity also jumped. On both sides of the Tiber far too few had the Magnum Principium about the responsibilities of local episcopal conferences in what we always heard before? , September 2017. His Holiness writes and to ask: how on earth does this new tune harmonize with Magnum Principium is a truly pivotal document, and if I may providing vernacular translations of the liturgical books. God is very good and mercifully brings order out of publicationconfusion. One of ‘Divine particularly Worship. bright The shaft Missal’. of lightThis Missalhas is say so, I think it would be music to Newman’s ears (and now emerged to lighten our darkness. That light is the translatingNewman was of liturgicala very musical books person). into a prayable Encouraged vernacular by the beHoly Father’s Motu Proprio, may one not ask this: why should the a magnificent piece of work. It preserves a large portion of that traditional Anglo-Catholic patrimony which has so limited to the Ordinary Form of the Roman rite, i.e. only to much to offer the modern Church in the modern world. But Page 16 those liturgical books publishedwww.friendsoftheordinariate.org.uk after 1969? Friends of the Ordinariate – Summer 2019 Forthcoming Events: First Friday of each month: 8am Mass at Our Lady of the

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For the last thirty years I have celebrated both forms of Tuesday 15th October: has convinced me that of itself the Latin language does not a symposium automaticallythe Roman rite deliver with almost a theocentric equal regularity. liturgy, a spirituallyThat parity Rome: “10 years after Anglicanorum Coetibus”: altar,uplifting the liturgy.structure There of the are liturgical other features year, the to calendar,be considered the Ordinariate Lapel Badges textswhich of are the actually orations, more the essential:cycle of readings, the orientation the rubrics, of the and of the Ordinariate Missal is that it preserves, or permits, many other details which have often been listed. The genius many of those traditional features, and in the vernacular. That is why its publication is such a significant contribution to future liturgical development. It deserves to be used as widely as possible. Please may I make this fraternal appeal to the Ordinariates. Rejoice in your distinctive liturgical providingpatrimony, a again standard I say, of rejoice. excellence Use itwhich all the others time, should and if aspirepossible, to whenpurify celebrating it for the future. the Lord’s In doing Eucharist so you inwill the be vernacular. itself badly out of shape in the future, by narcissism and To summarize: the human species shows every sign of twisting help us to remain truly human and properly Christian, in two gnosticism. In the face of those two demons, Newman can existence is a religious meaning, and must entail a personal ways. First, by his insistence that the real meaning of human in the Church of England, lapel badges are an important For those familiar with the Anglo-Catholic movement Christianreligious relationshipreligion is transcendental, with the Lover and of mankind. that includes Secondly, divine Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament, The Society by consistently affirming that the God-given purpose of the ofthing: Mary, the The Society Catholic of Our League, Lady Theof Walsingham, Society of the The Holy revealed truth is for humans to become holy and so get to Cross, all have their badges as an act of witness and worship. Newman teaches us that the primary function of The Ordinariate has continued this small part of the heaven. We practice the Christian religion best by the tenacity support for their particular guild. patrimony through the production of lapel badges with which we pursue our supernatural destiny. “if bearing the coat of arms of the Ordinariate, and the withThe heroic all your tenacity hearts yeof Newman’struly seek me, own ye quest shall everexemplifies surely find the Friends are proud to say that they have assisted in this me,truth saith of some the Lord.” ancient words from the prophet :

For Newman those words were fulfilled production through a grant. member of the Ordinariate to wear the badge, but rather taughtby two usevents to call in “theparticular. one fold One of the was Redeemer” on the 9th - ofthe October Catholic Unlike those Anglican guilds it is not necessary to be a 1845 when“If with he was all yourreceived hearts into ye what truly heseek himself me.” The has second If you would like to display your support for the it is a way of showing support for it. Church. Ordinariate, and support its work, you can purchase “Yefulfilment shall ever was surely on the find 11th me.” of On August the 19th 1890, of whenSeptember the Lord 2010 Popecalled Benedict him from XVI this declared life and himtook to him be tonumbered his eternal among reward. the Ordinariate Lapel Badges, lapel badges from:

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Edwin Ronald Barnes (1935-2019)

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Monsignor died on 6 February 2019, in the early hours of his 84th birthday. Later that same day I recorded on my Facebook Timeline the last of our many communications. In response to a joke from me, he had come up with one of his own. His joke was no better than mine but, given that it was his last comment, I recorded it, and mentioned the helping hand he had given me: Edwin Barnes And why did the Anglo-catholic chicken cross itself? Because it I remember him saying several times to me – after he had been ill and when I have wanted to get to the other side. Boom Boom.

been ill – ‘Well, you’ve got to die of something’. Actually he showed us all how to be active and joyful in old age … Edwin gave me the of Vice-Principal at SSH in 1994 (and coached me beforehand….) and, with Geoffrey Rowell, was a presenting bishop at my consecration in 2000. Edwin died this morning. May he rest in peace. clergy owed him a debt of gratitude, either because he by now living in Lymington, he inaugurated the Ordinariate hadMany been experienced their Principal this ‘helping when they hand’. trained Countless at St AnglicanStephen’s Monsignor. Though he had retired in 2001, ten years later, House, Oxford, or because they had served under him when Salisbury for a second go at retirement and he assisted Group in Bournemouth. In his early eighties, he moved to Edwin’s funeral, on 25th February 2019, was celebrated he was . Edwin was known as a bit Fr Keith Robinson, Pastor of the Salisbury Group. criticismof a warrior of whatever on General it wasSynod. that We was would being hear debated him bark would out ‘Barnes, Oxford’ and his Synod number, and some trenchant Oswald’s,by the Ordinary, Salisbury, Mgr unfolded, Keith Newton, one could his successor almost hear as Edwin grumblingBishop of Richborough. about the Prayer As the Book simple, texts moving of the Ordinariate liturgy in St Pugnaciousfollow. Those as in he authority could be found with those him uncomfortable in authority, he was but those in his care had a very different experience. a gentle and kindly pastor to those who looked to him for He would have liked the simple plainsongs and good hymns,liturgy andthe noblethe changes words, that and had the beenOrdinary’s had made homily, to them. but he was never convinced by us using Tudor English at the taughtsupport. very Educated seldom at at Plymouth St Stephen’s College House, and leaving Pembroke that to College, Oxford, Edwin was cleverer than he thought. He what he considered his more able academic colleagues, through massive liturgical change - Series 1 and Series 2, but in the pulpit he revealed himself to be a polished Eucharist. His generation – our generation – had lived the equally radical changes in the Roman Rite, much copied He had had years of experience as parish priest in Series 3 and the Alternative Service Book – not to mention wordsmith, creative and imaginative. Farncombe and Hessle, moving to St Stephen’s House, thing – he presided over it at St Stephen’s House - but we hadby Anglicans. moved beyond For Edwin, the Prayer Prayer Book Book Communion Evensong was Service, one of Richborough, the second of the Southern Provincial Oxford, in 1987, and, becoming, in 1995 the first Bishop It was a misunderstanding of our context, culturally and of the downtrodden and amongst his battles, it has to be evangelistically,not only its shape, he and thought, its theology, to discontinue but also the its uselanguage. of Episcopal Visitors. As bishop he continued to be on the side It was not just that we had turned the liturgical clock back said, were some lost causes. With Jane, his wife, at his side modern English. he would rush around: though now a bishop, he looked after the Richborough Area rather like an enormous parish. the one holy and apostolic Church it says it is’ and some realise50 years that that the upset changes him butin question also some had of been the American made not clergyIn 2010 and he laitydeclared followed that ‘thehis example Anglican by Church responding is no longer to the editing of Prayer Book texts. To be fair, he did not always warm invitation of Pope Benedict XVI, becoming Catholics by the Ordinariates but long before that in the American In 2011 he was ordained priest by and the Prayer Book tradition. Edwin’s final piece in his blog, and joining the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. ‘Antique Richborough’, was appropriately as emollient as it was valedictory. Thus he brought his final campaign to an eirenic close. followingPage 18 year he was made a Chaplain of His Holiness: a www.friendsoftheordinariate.org.uk Friends of the Ordinariate – Summer 2019 Please support the Friends of the Ordinariate

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The Friends of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham was If you would like to help the Friends of the Ordinariate in our established in 2011 to assist with the work of the newly erected work of supporting the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham through practical and financial support. It was also established in order to raise awareness of the Personal Ordinariate’s life and mission pleaseWalsingham, complete or would the contact like to details know onmore the about form overleafour work and or within the wider Catholic community. about the PersonalFriends Ordinariate of the of Ordinariate, Our Lady of c/oWalsingham, 24 Golden Square, London W1F 9JR or The Administrator, Friends of the Ordinariatesend it either of to: OLW, 24 Golden Square London W1F 9JR or established by Benedict XVI on 15 January 2011 and is a special email: [email protected] structureThe Personal within Ordinariate the Catholic of Our Church Lady which of Walsingham allows former was

TheAnglicans Ordinariate to enter groups into full and communion religious communities with the Pope which while have also retaining many of the treasures and gifts of their Anglican heritage. development in the work of promoting Christian unity and a so far been set up in England and Wales represent an important fundamental part of the New Evangelisation in England andThe Wales.Friends is a separate charity from the Personal Ordinariate closely with the Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate, Monsignor of Our Lady of Walsingham, with its own trustees, but we work

Keith Newton, to identify areas where the Friends can be of assistance.The Friends Mgr of the Newton Ordinariate is also charitythe President gratefully of the receives Friends. donations from individuals and organisations who share in the Holy See’s vision of Christian unity, which has been made manifest in the

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