News from The of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland www.ordinariate.scot Advent 2017 Issue

The horizon of hope! in this▸ issue... ??Ordinariate Pope Francis’ Advent Message Group Visitations t the start of Advent the People of APope Francis focused on God journeyed the importance of hope during toward the liturgical season dedicated to Jerusalem where preparing for Christmas. the temple of the Lord was, ??Cameron “For the great human family it “because from Macdonald and is necessary to renew always the there, from Simon Beveridge common horizon toward which we Jerusalem, came the revelation of the ??Pilgrimage and are journeying. The horizon of hope! face of God and His law.” Retreat This is the horizon that makes a good ?? of journey,” Pope Francis said. At the fullness of time, however, in 2017 “revelation found its fulfilment in “The time of Advent returns us Jesus Christ, and the ‘temple of the to the horizon of hope, a hope that Lord’ became God himself, the Word does not disappoint because it is made flesh.” founded on the Word of God. A hope that does not disappoint, simply It is the Lord himself who guides our because the Lord never disappoints! journey, the “pilgrimage of all of the ??Mass in Greyfriars He is faithful!” the Holy Father People of God; and by its light even Convent in Elgin emphasised. the other peoples can walk towards ??The RNI Chapel, the Kingdom of justice, towards the Inverness The time of Advent that the Kingdom of peace.” ??Edinburgh and Church celebrates in preparation for Stirling Christmas, explained the Pontiff, is “What a great day it will be, when “a new journey of the People of God the weapons will be dismantled with Jesus Christ, our Shepherd, in order to be transformed into who guides us in history towards the instruments of work!” the Pope completion of the Kingdom of God.” reflected, noting the scripture passage from the prophet Isaiah which ??The Caldey “Let us rediscover the beauty of being referred to such peace. Conversion together along the way: the Church, ??On-line ... Shop with her vocation and mission, and “And this is possible! We bet on and Donate the whole of humanity, the people, the hope, on the hope of peace, and it civilisations, the cultures, all together will be possible!” he exclaimed. “The ??Ordinariate Scotland Calendar on the paths of time.” journey is never finished,” advised Pope Francis. “Just as in each of our ??The Gift of “But on the way to where?” queried own lives, there is always a need to English Catholic Pope Francis. In the Old Testament, restart, to rise again, to recover a Patrimony News from The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland Page 2

sense of the goal of one’s own her heart the hope of God,” and of all men and women who e x i s t e n c e .” explained the Holy Father. “In hope in God, in the power of his her womb, the hope of God m e r c y.” our journey in life took flesh, became man, and Mary serves as a “model of made history: Jesus Christ.” “Let us be guided by her, she this spiritual attitude, to this who is mother, she is a ‘mama’ way of being and of journeying Mary’s song of praise in the and knows how to lead us. Let in life.” Although she was just Magnificat “is the canticle of the us be guided by her in this time a “simple girl,” she “carried in People of God on the journey, of waiting and active vigilance.” Ordinariate Group Visitations or the last five years and implementation of the course and making appropriate FMonsignor Keith Newton, Apostolic Constitution our Ordinary, has been visiting Anglicanorum Coetibus in Ordinariate groups informally, their particular situation, to but in consultation with the examine how they are following Governing Council it has been good practice in keeping good decided that he should visit financial records and other the groups for a more formal records, etc. Keith Newton visitation once every three years. Mgr Keith writes, “I hope dates for the visit. May I also This will be an opportunity to visit a number of groups in take this opportunity to wish for him to consider with the this way in 2017 and I will be you and those you love a very Pastoral Council, the vision informing those groups in due happy and holy Christmas.” Cameron Macdonald and Simon Beveridge ince the beginning submitted by Cameron Sof September Cameron and Simon, requesting Macdonald, who lives in Nairn, Ordination as and Simon Beveridge, who lives in the near Whithorn in Galloway, through the Personal have ‘enjoyed’ the long journey Ordinariate of Our Lady to London several times each of Walsingham, and month. The reason being that that they had both been their programme of Formation granted a Nulla Osta. for Priesthood in the Catholic Church through the Personal Cameron Macdonald and Simon Beveridge This confirmed that Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Congregation for the Walsingham has now begun. through the Ordinariate. Doctrine of the Faith had found no objections to both Cameron This has been a long process After a long period of and Simon beginning the over a number of years for discernment and meetings process which we hope and pray both Cameron and Simon as with Fr Len Black and Mgr will lead to their Ordination. they prayerfully sought God’s Keith Newton over the years, Their period of Formation guidance regarding their future the confirmation came in June began in London in September as priests. Increasing they felt that the Congregation for the when, along with seven other that God was calling them to Doctrine of the Faith in Rome former Anglican priests, they service in the Catholic Church had reviewed the Dossiers began their preparing for News from The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland Page 3

Ordination as Catholic Priests. been given a ‘clean bill of health’ Celibacy. This is something through the Psychological only the Holy Father can As there formation continues, Assessment required by the grant and each application is their have been other tasks for Catholic Church. considered and by him alone! them both to fulfil. They have both successfully undergone There is a good deal of work This is all excellent news for the Safeguarding Scotland to done. The Holy Father, Pope the Ordinariate in Scotland. screening, Cameron through Francis, will now, as both men Pease keep Cameron and Simon the Diocese of Aberdeen and are married, be asked to grant in your prayers as their process Simon through the Diocese both Cameron and Simon a of Formation for Priesthood of Galloway, as well as having dispensation from Clerical continues. Schoenstatt Pilgrimage and Retreat Friday 10th to Sunday 12th March 2017 e are Scotland website www. Wplanning ordinariate.scot another Ordinariate Scotland weekend There will also be an at the Schoenstatt opportunity at the two Retreat Centre in Informal Gatherings to Campsie Glen. As review ‘where we are’ those of you who and to look forward The Shrine Chapel of Our Lady at Schoenstatt Scotland have been before and plan for an exciting will know, not only is it in the past occasions and that he is future, as well as an opportunity perfect location for a tranquil again able to be with us in 2017 to review the locations where retreat, nestled in secluded to conduct our Retreat. the Ordinariate Mass is grounds at the foot of the celebrated and consider more Campsie Fells, but it offers a Exciting times lie ahead for Mass centres for the future. degree of luxury (spacious en- the Ordinariate in Scotland suite rooms, excellent food, lift with the expectation that This is an exciting time for the and other facilities) and also a two new Ordinariate priests Ordinariate in Scotland and unique Shrine of Our Lady in will be ordained during 2017 we hope that as all those who the small Chapel in the grounds with, hopefully, another to have an interest in seeing the (see the enclosed leaflet). follow. Pilgrimage and Retreat Ordinariate grow and flourish will be at the centre of our in Scotland will be able to It has been a great joy that visit to Schoenstatt in 2017. join us on our Pilgrimage and Monsignor Keith Newton, our You will find the proposed Retreat at Schoenstatt with Mgr Ordinary, has been with us on programme on the Ordinariate Keith Newton. The Ordination of Deacons in 2017 n the past, most former As Monsignor Keith Newton, or completely lost. In discussion IAnglican clergy joining the our Ordinary, has pointed with the Governing Council it Personal Ordinariate of Our out, “This has often led to the was agreed that our Lady of Walsingham have been important distinction that should ideally be held centrally ordained in the Dioceses in they are not Diocesan clergy, so that it is clear that the men which they are resident and by but incardinated into the are being ordained for service in the local . Ordinariate, being underplayed the Ordinariate.” News from The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland Page 4

In the Catholic Church, simple process. still under consideration and he ’incardination’ refers to the hopes to be able to announce situation of a member of the During 2017 the Personal the location in the near future. clergy being placed under the Ordinariate of Our Lady of jurisdiction of a particular Walsingham is likely to have a This will be a very special bishop or other ecclesiastical large number of men ordained, occasion for the Ordinariate in superior. In the case of the probably more than almost the UK ... and hopefully also for Personal Ordinariate of Our any diocese in the country, the Ordinariate in Scotland. It Lady of Walsingham all clergy and it is Mgr Keith’s opinion is hoped as many as possible will take an Oath of Allegiance that ordaining them together be able to make the journey to to the Ordinary and are will give the opportunity to London for the Ordination Mass. thus incardinated into the celebrate this and show the Ordinariate. wider Catholic Church of our The continuing growth and strength. following This is very different day is compared to the position of Mgr Keith is therefore pleased Corpus Anglican clergy who can easily to announce that Cardinal Christi move to a different Diocese George Pell, Prefect of the Sunday and or even a different Province Secretariat for the Economy no doubt, at will. This can not happen at the Vatican and formerly for those in the Catholic Church. Even Archbishop of Sydney, has able to stay Cardinal George Pell when any of our priests are agreed to ordain our candidates over, there ‘on loan’ to another Diocese and the Ordination Mass will be an opportunity to join he is still incardinated to the will take place in London on an Ordinariate Corpus Christi Ordinariate and remains Saturday 17th June at 11.30am. Procession through the streets under the authority of the of London! Ordinary. There is a process Arrangements for the Mass of excardination but it is not a and a reception afterwards are Mass in Greyfriars Convent, Elgin n Sunday 23rd century and moved to this OOctober the Highland location in the 15th century. Ordinariate Mass was celebrated in Greyfriars In 1891 Greyfriars became Convent, Elgin, when Rachel home to the Sisters of Mercy in Greyfriars Convent, Elgin Wallace was received into 1891. The ruined buildings of the full Communion of the the Convent and church were and to provide faith formation Catholic Church through the restored between 1896 and opportunities to the people of Ordinariate. 1908 by the Marquis of Bute the area. and his son. Greyfriars Convent is a large The sisters engage in various complex of buildings located Today the convent is home apostolates in Scotland close to Elgin Cathedral near to the Dominican Sisters of St such as volunteering in local the centre of this historic town. Cecilia. Founded in 1860 in Catholic schools and providing It was founded in 1479 on the Nashville, Tennessee, USA, four sacramental preparation for site of a previous Franciscan Sisters came to Elgin in 2013 the local parish, St Sylvester’s. convent. The Franciscan friars at the request of Bishop Hugh They also run youth groups, were introduced into Elgin by Gilbert, bringing religious life retreats and days of recollection King Alexander II in the 13th back to this historic convent for teenagers, young adults, News from The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland Page 5

and others, as well as we could come for Mass giving talks to parishes, in the Convent Chapel university groups, and more regularly. schools when requested. Sister Anna Christi The Convent was replied, “We are happy to mostly rebuilt at the end host you in the upcoming of the 19th century but is year, but our apostolic on the site of the original The Highland Ordinariate Group welcome Rachel Wallace and work tends to happen building and re-uses her husband Leigh (front row centre) in Greyfriars Chapel, Elgin over weekends, making some of the original stonework crucifix on top with flanking regular scheduling difficult.” and includes a quadrangle with gilded angels. There is a fine covered cloisters. stained glass window above the We are delighted that the altar of Christ the King leading Dominican Sisters of St Cecilia The interior of the church is saintly women. are happy to welcome us in largely unchanged from when their beautiful chapel. The next it was re-built in the late 19th It has been a great joy for Ordinariate Mass there will be century. There is a very fine the Highland Ordinariate to at 11.30am on Sunday 30th wooden screen divides the nave celebrate Mass on occasions in April 2017, the Third Sunday of from the choir and chancel with Greyfriars Convent Chapel and Easter. Full details will be found large double doors in the centre. following our visit in October it on the Ordinariate Scotland The screen supports a large was decided to ask the Sisters if website www.ordinariate.scot The RNI Chapel in Inverness he Highland incense had set off the hospital TOrdinariate Group smoke alarms. are settling well into their new home in the Royal Northern Not only did two fire engines Infirmary Chapel on the banks arrive, but six other fire crews of the River Ness close to the were called out from being on centre of Inverness. The Chapel standby, one further crew from is owned by NHS Highland. Inverness and two from nearby The original hospital is no longer towns, each 20 miles away in The RNI Chapel, Inverness there, it is an ideal location for opposite directions. After the the Society of Friends had the Ordinariate Mass. fire officers had checked that all their Meeting there on Sunday was well, they were able to call mornings, the Ordinariate Mass You may remember that off the other fire engines, whose was at 3pm ... not the most the Highland group started crews were no doubt relieved convenient time for most people. using the chapel on Easter that there was no major hospital Day. All went very well until fire in Inverness. After a short In September, when the the Offertory, when two fire break while all this happened, Society of Friends moved their engines arrived! Despite the the Mass began again at Meeting to a new location, the fact that Fr Len Black had the Offertory… without incense. Ordinariate Mass time changed checked the week before that to 11.30am ... a much more it would be possible to use There are two pieces of good convenient time. The second incense (the Orthodox Group news. The first concerns the piece of good news is that since who also use the chapel had time of the Ordinariate Mass the beginning of November told him that they have no on the 2nd and 4th Sundays of incense is once again being used problem with incense), the the month. Originally, because at the Ordinariate Mass. News from The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland Page 6 The Ordinariate in Edinburgh and Stirling n the third St Mary’s, Stirling, is a its marble Lady Chapel Altar, Oweekend of each month very different church. It’s complete with a traditional altar Fr Len Black drives south spectacular location close to rail. The altar is ideal for anad for the Ordinariate Mass in the centre of Stirling and in the orientem (facing “to the east”) Edinburgh and Stirling. At shadow of Stirling Castle above, celebration of the Mass. St Columba’s, Edinburgh the it is an imposing building. Ordinariate Mass continues We are most grateful to Fr at 11.30am on the Sunday of It has a central nave and Andrew Kingham, Parish each month. St Columba’s is an two side aisles and was built of St Mary’s Stirling, and Mgr ideal church for the Ordinariate in the Gothic Revival style Francis Kerr, Parish Priest of both because of its architecture under the architects Pugin and Columba’s, Edinburgh, for their and because of its location. It Pugin, 1904-5 and is built in continuing welcome to the is been encouraging on recent red Dumfriesshire sandstone Ordinariate in their parishes, occasions to see the numbers reached by a rising driveway and especially to Peter Murphy, attending Mass increasing and from Upper Bridge Street. the Lead Sacristan at St Mary’s especially good to welcome who is always there to welcome students from the University The Ordinariate Mass is us and to prepare the altar for into our midst. celebrated in the north aisle at Mass. The Caldey Conversion uring a recent including the Dstay at Pluscarden Abbey then Archbishop Fr Len obtained a copy of of Canterbury “The Caldey Conversion”. He and the Bishop already knew something of this of Oxford, part of Pluscarden’s history which led up to when on 5th March 1913 the crisis, and a the Caldey Island Anglican series of personal community of monks, of which accounts and Pluscarden is the successor, was contemporary comments. link between what the Caldey received into full communion Island community did 98 years with the Catholic Church. Other contemporary before the Ordinariate brought testimonies are included, us into the Catholic fold! The book was produced in including a letter from Pope St 2013 as part of the centenary Pius X; a statement by Bishop “The Caldey Conversion” is celebrations of that event, and Francis Mostyn; and accounts beautifully produced, with 128 event at which the Personal by Aelred himself; his pages, some 15 illustrations, Ordinariate of Our Lady of Prior Wilfred Upson; Dom and a colour cover. It is well Walsingham was represented. Bede Camm, the first Catholic worth reading and is available monk to help the community; from the Pluscarden Abbey The dramatic story of why Dom Aidan Angle; Blessed Shop on their website - www. and how it came about is Columba Marmion; and the pluscardenabbey.org. There unfolded in the words of those sister community of nuns then is also a link to it on the who were directly involved. It resident at Milford Haven. Ordinariate Scotland website includes the full correspondence - www.ordinariate.scot/ between Abbot Aelred and the It is a fascinating story, not bookshelf.html. Anglican Church authorities, least because of the wonderful News from The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland Page 7 On-line ... Shop and Donate he Giving Machine Tesco, Sainsbury, John Lewis Tis a UK registered and hundreds more. 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Ordinariate Scotland Calendar n addition to the main 2017 full Ordinariate Liturgical Calendar IOrdinariate calendar - available and space to write your own from www.portalmag.co.uk - we also appointments ... all for just £5.50. have out own Ordinariate Scotland To order your copy email fr.len@ calendar ... A4, full colour with angelforce.co.uk. He will either photographs from the Ordinariate arrange to post it to you or bring it in Scotland and beyond, Sunday with him to the next Ordinariate Mass dates around Scotland, the Mass when you can pay for it. Gift of English Catholic Patrimony Bishop Steven Lopes of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter from an article Peter Jesserer Smith in the National Catholic Register, December 2016

This Advent marks the first anniversary ofD ivine Worship: The Missal, approved by Pope Francis for the Personal Ordinariates set up by Pope Benedict XVI. Bishop Lopes, who has been involved with the Ordinariates since his time at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith up to his ordination as Bishop in February 2016, speaks about the impact of Divine Worship and the gift of the Ordinariate’s English Catholic Patrimony to the life of the Church. What effect have you seen this The drafters on the Qmissal have on the Ordinariate commission that worked on I think the missal has been it really did try to look at the very significant in articulating whole arc of this 500 years of our patrimony. Whereas we ecclesial separation and ask the could identify bits and pieces patrimony question in this way: of it before, this is the first time What is it that nurtured faith in Bishop Steven Lopes where it has all been collected such a way that prompted these into one place and codified in aspirations to Christian unity? bad thing. I think you look at the the basis of law, which I think is All of that, in a certain sense, liturgy and say, “That’s an obvious also very significant. had to be accounted for in the expression of patrimony.” It isn’t new missal. And the missal is the only expression of patrimony, Part of the reality of Catholic also now Church law. but it is the most tangible. It’s the life is that our worship expresses thing that immediately gives a and gives contour to our faith, What is, and how would you define, distinctive quality to our prayer and so to worship in good order Qthe Patrimony of the Ordinariate? and worship in the Catholic also means that we are rightly I think that’s a question that has community, so that when you believing and rightly acting. no easy answer, and that’s not a come into an Ordinariate News from The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland Page 8

Mass you can say, “This is I would think so. There’s I’d want to say the “Prayer of something new, something a marvellous description of Humble Access,” because it’s just different, something other patrimony that Archbishop astoundingly beautiful, but the than I experience in any other [Joseph Augustine] Di one I find myself using often in parish.” That’s what patrimony is Noia gave in a talk for the various situations, everything supposed to do. Ordinariate of Our Lady from the beginning of meetings of Walsingham. He talked to personal prayer, is the There are other elements of about the fact that patrimony “Collect of Purity.” Beginning patrimony that I think we’re only is developed by the Church my own time of prayer and beginning to develop. It’s hard to peering back through these recollection with the Collect of explain even to the other traditions, through these Purity — like we begin the Mass that the way we’re intentional expressions, and through — that’s the one that’s certainly about our small community these experiences, and seeing the most familiar and most gatherings — all of that is hard to something that is authentically frequently said, for me. give language to. It’s not as tangible her own, and yet expressed in a as say, the “Prayer of Humble new and felicitous way. Thank you Bishop Lopes, anything Access” in the missal, but it is Qyou would like to add as a final word? absolutely crucial to our identity as So it’s the recognising This missal is a work of God’s an Ordinariate, because it’s what something that is authentically providential grace. It is a nurtures our life in as important a her own that allows the Church mercy that we have been given way as the missal does. to say, “Yes, we can reincorporate this opportunity to create that into Catholic life, because something that will change not The more these kinds of we recognise in it something only the lives of the men and things come to the fore, the true, and that diversity of women of the Ordinariate, but more they get experienced and expression only augments and it will change the way that the talked about, I think, the better. underscores the truth, rather Church in the UK, the United Ultimately, that’s a conversation than obscures.” You see there’s States, Australia and Canada that happens among the lay a diversity that gives life and lives, very much for the faithful and their priests. vitality, and a diversity that better, by having a dimension obscures, and the judgment on that will resound and will, Would you say the ordinariate, in a that is ultimately one that has to therefore, draw people back Qsense, heals the breach in English be made by the Church. to faith. So that is not only Catholic patrimony by reaching back exciting, it is a tremendous through the Anglican tradition to its What’s your favourite prayer from privilege for which we should English Catholic roots? Qthe Patrimony? be very, very grateful. Ordinariate Scotland Mass Centres Inverness Edinburgh Stirling Elgin

Royal Northern St Columba’s Church St Mary’s Church Greyfriars Convent Chapel Infirmary Chapel 9 Upper Gray Street 15 Upper Bridge Street 15-19 Abbey Street Ness Walk, Inverness IV3 5SF Edinburgh EH9 1SN Stirling FK8 1ES Elgin IV30 1DA 2nd and 4th Sundays THIRD Sunday THIRD Sunday of Sundays throughout the year of each month at 11.30am of each month at 11.30am each month at 4pm (see the website) at 11.30am The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland, 49 Laurel Avenue, Inverness IV3 5RR - [email protected] Telephone: 01463 235597 www.ordinariate.scot Charity Reg No: 1141536