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Fr Ignatius Spencer 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. 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 London. deal in theThis last 8 Friends of the Ordinariate are most welcome to join us for that you give us. 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Details better knownabout this and Gift Aid payment from HMRC, which will go towards canunderstood be found not at http://bit.ly/ACS-2019.least outside the English It speaking is their wish world, to because its implications for ecumenism are far greater than Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. Charity no. 1142667 Company no. 7680821 Anglicanorum Coetibus GDPR Compliance itstime size. that I dothe not vision think of theit is Second an exaggeration Vatican Council to say Document that the Under new legislation which came into effect in May Apostolicon Ecumenism Constitution Unitatis Redintegratio has borne is practicalthe first 2018, all public bodies, including charities are obliged to take greater steps to ensure the privacy of those persons Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith at the time of its fruit. In the words of Cardinal Levada, the Prefect of the To this effect, the Friends of the Ordinariate sent out a whose information they hold on file. publication:Christianity who‘This desire is the firstfull communion time that the and Catholic accorded Church them request form to all non-donors whose names are held on has reached out in response to men and women of Western our database, asking for their explicit approval to remain on our database and have altered the information we Much has been achieved over the last 10 years but there not just a place among many but a distinctive place’. Our database continues to be held in a secure manner, hold accordingly. continueto be grateful to be for many the challengessupport and not encouragement least financial ofif thethe and is in no way accessible to anyone without OrdinariateFriends of the here Ordinariate in Great Britain and I pray is to it flourish. will continue We continue over the appropriate authorisation. 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. 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 Andrew Burnham 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, Ordinariate by paying their stipends. Catholic teaching, Letters, Features, Catholic and Anglican www.friendsoftheordinariate.org.uk history,http://www.portalmag.co.uk/ and Ordinariate news. 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.
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