News from The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland www.ordinariate.scot Summer 2019 Issue

The Seal of the Confession in this▸ issue...

pproved by He decided to involve the APope Francis, the Church, as a “necessary has recently instrument” in this work of released a “Note on the salvation, and, in her, those importance of the internal whom He has chosen, called, forum and the inviolability and constituted as His ??Whithorn Cave of the Sacramental Seal”. ministers.” Pilgrimage

It upholds the absolute inviolability According to the Note, Priests of the Seal of Confession, meaning should therefore “defend the Seal that priests can never be forced of Confession even to the point to reveal what they learn in the of shedding blood, both as an act Sacrament of Reconciliation. of loyalty to the penitent and as a witness -martyrdom - to the unique It states, “The inviolable secrecy of and universal salvation of Christ and Confession derives directly from revealed the Church”. ??Canonisation of Blessed John divine law and is rooted in the very Henry Newman nature of the sacrament, to the point of In an interview with Vatican admitting no exception in the ecclesial or, Radio, Cardinal Piacenza said that even less so, in the civil sphere. the goal in releasing the note is “to instil greater trust, especially in these “In the celebration of the Sacrament times, in penitents who come to ??Saved by her of Reconciliation, in fact, the very confess themselves... and ultimately to Guardian Angel essence of Christianity itself and of advance the cause of the sacrifice of the Church is encapsulated: the Son Christ who came to take away the sins of God became man to save us, and of the world.” Relics of St Thérèse visit Scotland he relics of St Thérèse have been on an Tinternational pilgrimage since 1994, and are to ??Before . . . visit Scotland from 30th August to 20th September. and After www.littleflowerinscotland.co.uk is where you will find the full itinerary for all eight dioceses. For the Ordinariate in Scotland here are some dates: 1st-3rd Sept St Margaret’s Cathedral, Ayr 3rd Sept St Teresa’s Church, Dumfries 7th-8th Sept St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh 9th-10th Sept St Mary’s Cathedral, Aberdeen ??Ordinariate 11th Sept Pilgrimage to 11th-12th Sept St Mary’s Church, Inverness in 2020 News from The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland Page 2

This will be the very first the Blessed Sacrament. While time the Relics of St Thérèse there will be times of organised of Lisieux have been brought prayer in each church during to Scotland. It is planned that the time the relics are with us churches will not close at any in Scotland, there will also be time during the visit of the times of silence and quietness Relics, giving all who wish to for personal devotions and visit the opportunity to do so. to approach the relics to offer prayer, and the Sacrament of our intentions through St Reconciliation will be readily There will be the opportunity Thérèse and spend time before available. St ’s Cave Pilgrimage embers and used to construct it, or the MAssociates of the whitewash used to paint it. Ordinariate in Scotland will join , The annual pilgrimage brings , for the Catholics together from all away, for the St Ninian’s Cave Pilgrimage to St Ninian’s over Scotland and beyond Pilgrimage Mass at 4pm. Cave on Sunday 25th August, to honour the memory of St the annual event held to Ninian and we hope as many as From the Car Park at Kidsdale celebrate the life of Saint possible from the Ordinariate in the cave is about a one mile Ninian, Scotland’s first saint, Scotland will take part. There walk, first, down a track who brought Christianity to will be Solemn Ordinariate through a wooded glen. Scotland in the 5th Century. Mass at 10am in St Martin and St Ninian’s Church in the Bishop William warns that Ninian was probably born centre of Whithorn. since the last mile is on foot around 360 south of Hadrian’s along an often muddy path, Wall in today’s Cumbria. He After Mass there will be an sensible shoes are advisable, studied in Rome and came to opportunity for coffee and a then its out into the open again Whithorn around 394 bringing visit to the ruined St Ninian’s before turning right along the with him stone masons from and the St Ninian Trust’s shore over a lovely pebbly bay Tours to built the first stone Museum with its rich collection to reach St Ninian’s Cave. The church in Scotland, Candida of items. We will have lunch cave itself is a very special place Casa, meaning White House, together before making our way with many carved crosses made referring possibly to the stone to the Isle of Whithorn, 4 miles by pilgrims over the centuries. Symposium on Anglicanorum coetibus he Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), Tthe body responsible for promulgating and defending Catholic doctrine is holding a Symposium in Rome from 12th to 16th October on Anglicanorum coetibus in the Gregorian University. This follows theCanonisation of Blessed John Henry Newman in St Peter’s Square by the Holy Father on Sunday the 13th of October. A number of our Ordinariate priests, including Fr Len, will be attending both the Canonisation and the Symposium at the invitation of the CDF. News from The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland Page 3 10th Anniversary Mass in London s this year marks the preach on this occasion. I hope such an event, if anyone does A10th anniversary of the we will have a good number of find themselves in London promulgation of the Apostolic priests and laity present. on the day, they will be most Constitution Anglicanorum welcome at the Mass. coetibus, we are holding a When we celebrated the celebration Mass at Precious first anniversary of the setting He has chosen to have the Blood Borough on Saturday the up of the Ordinariate with Mass at Precious Blood as it 9th of November at 12 noon, Evensong at Spanish Place, a has recently been restored and followed by a reception. large number of priests and consecrated and looks very people made an effort to be splendid and it will be a good We are fortunate that H.E. there. Although Mgr Keith opportunity for many people Cardinal Nichols, appreciates it is not easy for outside London to see what has of Westminster, has agreed to us in Scotland to be present at been achieved there. Ordinariate Clergy Walsingham Pilgrimage ast year’s Clergy Dr Rod Strange will be LPilgrimage to Walsingham giving two presentations on was such a success last year our recently canonised patron, that it was decided to hold it Blessed John Henry Newman, over two nights rather than one who by then will be “Saint”. from 12th to 14th November. There will also be time for That’s the ‘official’ view, but more pilgrimage devotions none of the Ordinariate priests and we will be arranging a full in Scotland were there because, programme from the 12th to Fr Cameron will drive the 17 as you may know, Walsingham the 14th November. miles from Nairn to Inverness is not the easiest place to get to to meet up with Frs Stanley and from Scotland This year the Ordinariate Len who has arranged to hire a priests in Scotland will be large car. They will then drive there, thanks to a generous 270 miles south from Inverness to grant from The Friends of the Whithorn to collect Fr Simon. Ordinariate to fund a long, but carefully planned journey From Whithorn they will there and back. The journey drive a further 172 miles to begins when Fr Stanley will Catterick where they will stay leave Stornoway on Friday overnight at the Premier Inn, 15th November and travel leaving first thing on Tuesday by Calmac Ferry to to drive the 192 miles to Little Ullapool and then on Walsingham and the Shrine of to Inverness by bus in Our Lady of Walsingham in order to be at Mass time for the beginning of the on the Sunday - a Ordinariate Priests Pilgrimage. total distance of 111 miles. On the Thursday they repeat the journey, with an overnight First thing stop again at Catterick, on Monday dropping Fr Simon off back morning, at Whithorn, getting back to News from The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland Page 4

Inverness on the Friday night extra distances Fr Stanley and but worth it all to spend time with … all except Fr Stanley who Fr Cameron travel, the distance their fellow priests at the Shrine will leave for Stornoway on the from Inverness Walsingham and of Our Lady of Walsingham. Monday. Not counting the back is a total of 1,260 miles ... Schoenstatt 2019 ur Schoenstatt Pilgrimage and OConference in June was a great success and the Schoenstatt Shrine was again a peaceful oasis nestled, as it is, in seventeen secluded acres at the foot of the Campsie Fells.

Our Pilgrimage was led by Father John Hunwicke, the distinguished scholar, fascinating talks: John Paul, Benedict, and the Ordinariate priest and blogger, who gave two Background Story and Stories to Encourage: Tales excellent devotional addresses on How to read the from the Ordinariate in Britain, demonstrating Scriptures with Jesus in the Church and another on her great supporter of the Ordinariate. Saint John Henry Newman for our time. More photographs from the weekend will be Our guest speaker was journalist and found on the Ordinariate Scotland website under broadcaster Joanna Bogle, who gave two NEWS & EVENTS > Photo Gallery. Michael Thrusfield n the Sunday afternoon Michael OThrusfield at Schoenstatt to go on a pre- arranged holiday to Madeira with his wife. It was their first visit to Madeira, the autonomous region of Portugal, and an archipelago comprising 4 islands off the northwest coast of Africa.

It made a great impression on him, as he wrote, “I heartily recommend it - wish I had discovered it 30 years ago. The British influence is massive (wine, Napoleonic Wars, etc.)”. He appreciation of with Fr Len! It was an impressive further explained that the style of the Churches church for Mass on the Sunday where, as he are ‘Iberian Baroque’. Perhaps not a favourite explained, “the readings at the main Sunday Mass of everyone, but a wonderful style he shares an were in English”. The Fraternity of Saint Andrew he Fraternity of St Andrew, the The Fraternity exists to TGuild of Altar Servers for the Ordinariate promote good practice in Scotland was launched during our time amongst those who assist at the at Schoenstatt when Fr Simon Beveridge altar and to foster individual commissioned Sean McKenna (Edinburgh devotion, and so deepen the Mission)and Raymond McMullen (Whithorn spirit and power of worship Mission) and David McKay (Inverness Mission) and devotion in those who in his absence, as Members of the Fraternity. serve in the Sanctuary. News from The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland Page 5

Members of the Fraternity of St Benedict holding a cross On the other side there is a are encouraged to pray for in his hands and larger Cross with Latin initials. one another and to say a the rules in his The initials on Prayer of Preparation and of left hand. On his the cross in the Thanksgiving before and after right there is a centre: C S S M serving at Holy Mass. cup from which L - Crux Sacra Sit a serpent is escaping (recalling Mihi Lux - “The The ‘badge’ of the Fraternity the poisoned wine which he Holy Cross be my light” - and is the Medal of St Benedict, the miraculously survived). On the N D S M D - Non Draco Sit origin of which is very ancient. left is a crow taking away the Mihi Dux - “Let not the dragon On one side it carries the image poisoned bread. be my guide”. Saved by her Guardian Angel uth Black had a passengers who had witnessed Rnarrow escape when the accident. driving with a friend early one evening to meet friends for a The police soon arrived and meal in an hotel in Ardersier 12 took over traffic management as miles east on Inverness. She was well as taking statements from driving round a right hand bend Ruth and the other witnesses. going uphill when the trailer Because the car, un-drivable as of an articulated lorry coming it was, was on a dangerous bend, The car was insured through towards her swung across to her the police arranged for it to be the Institute of Advanced side of the road. With a solid taken away, allowing Ruth and Motorists, of which Fr Len is crash barrier to her right, all her friends to continue, slightly a member, and the insurance she could do was to perform an later than planned, to enjoy the company were excellent. They emergency stop as the trailer meal they had planned. were driving a new replacement ploughed into the car within four weeks. right hand side of her car. And how did Ruth account for her The driver of miraculous escape ... the artic did not her Guardian Angel stop but carried on was hard at work! towards Inverness. Thankfully a young After all, the man from the car Angelforce symbols hire company, Enterprise, who The outcome was that the car, were on both front doors of the was driving the car behind just six months old, was so badly car, and the one on the drivers the artic carried on until he damaged that it was written off door was the only part of that was able to make a note of by the insurance company. The side of the car that was not the vehicle’s number, before driver of the artic was traced damaged in the accident, as you returning to see how Ruth was. by the police and although he can see. claimed to have been unaware Thankfully, Ruth and her of the accident, admitted to Angelforce.scot is the ‘umbrella’ passenger stepped out of the being at fault. He was charged domain name which introduces car completely unscathed, with careless driving, fined you to the numerous websites although shaken by the event, to £100 and had six penalty points connected with Ruth, Fr Len be greeted by other drivers and added to his driving licence. and their family. News from The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland Page 6 Stonehouse Mill update e are delighted to report, although not as Wdelighted as Sarah and Fr Simon Beveridge must be, as these photographs show, that work on the rebuilding of Stonehouse Mill has entered an advanced stage.

Fr Simon’s brother Mark has completed most of the Before... interior plaster work and the fitting out of the house and After has begun. Second stage electrics are underway with much decoration done already. The utility room is almost finished with basin, loo, shower, heat exchange boiler, laundry area and fuse boards installed. Fr Simon’s plumbing skills acquired when he was briefly apprenticed aged 17, have come in handy too!

Sarah and Fr Simon have set a firm deadline to be moved in for Christmas 2019, allowing only minor snagging to remain outstanding. Next Summer 2020 they will complete the landscaping.

The fundamental and major work for this has been completed with 19 Gabion Baskets hand filled with tons of stone which came from the excavations for the foundations of the Mill. It is called Stonehouse Mill for a reason!

When complete there will be an area of terraced lawn with bedding plants and walkway next to the burn. Further ahead, Fr Simon also intends to use a large stone lintel which came out of the Mill and set it on mullions with an inset altar stone donated by Ordinariate member Raymond McMullen which will be laid on to the top of the lintel. The new altar will be placed in the newly created garden.

The Whithorn Ordinariate Mission continues to make progress with two new Associate Members about to join. Two former Associates, Alexandra and Raymond McMullen, are now full Ordinariate Members following a discovery at Schoenstatt that Raymond has an Anglican background. The Feast of the Transfiguration saw a change in the time of the weekly Ordinariate Mass at Whithorn. It has been brought forward to 10.30am on Tuesdays with opportunity for Confession now at 10am. Edinburgh organist Why? e are delighted to welcome Bartosz hy did we leave to continue our W(pronounced Bartek) Skrzypczak WAnglican heritage in the ? who has kindly offered to play the organ ay out It’s obvious! Watch Bishop Barron on The Limits monthly Ordinariate Mass in Edinburgh. He of Tolerance on the Ordinariate Scotland website has been back home in Poland over the summer at RESOURCES > Ord Scot Video Selection. and will be with us again in September. News from The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland Page 7 Ordinariate Pilgrimage to Rome 2020 he three Ordinariates, Holiness , but Tthose of Our Lady of the focus of the Pilgrimage Walsingham, of the Chair of will be on Blessed (by then, Saint Peter and of Our Lady Saint) John Henry Newman, of the Southern Cross, are including a visit to his planning a Joint Pilgrimage to titular church, the 7th century on the outskirts Rome from Sunday 10th to St Giorgio in Velabro and the of Rome for members of the Saturday 16th May 2020. Palace of the Propagation of the Ordinariate in Scotland. Faith, where he was ordained and celebrated his first Mass. He has also been in contact with the Italian agency There will be an optional tour organising the visit who has of the Scavi, the excavations assured him that they will allow beneath St Peter’s where we will those who wish to arrange their walk though the first century own fights as an alternative to burial ground on the Lateran the main group flights from Hill, moving between the London. The itinerary is still being ancient tombs until we reach finalised, as is the cost, but the place where St Peter was it will include Mass at San laid to rest. According to Fr Gregorio Magno, the Church Len, it an experience not to be from where St Gregory the missed. Great sent St Augustine and the other first missionaries to The other optional visit will England, a visit the Basilica of St be to the impressive Vatican Mary Major and the Cathedral Museums to view the works of of Rome, St John Lateran, art of famous artists, including the Church of Santa Maria in the Sistine Chapel with Full details of the Pilgrimage Vallicella, also called Chiesa Michelangelo’s masterpiece as well as cost will be available Nuova, built for St Philip Neri “The Last Judgment”. soon, but it will most certainly and houses his shrine. be a very special occasion to Time will be dedicated to the be on Pilgrimage with the On the Wednesday we will all Ordinariates, include a Panel three Ordinariates and their go to St Peter’s Square to attend Discussion, and Fr Len will Ordinaries. the Papal Audience given by His arrange a visit to the Pontifical New Scallan Altar at Carfin new altar has been Scotland at all. in Scotland. The Scalan altar Ainst alled at , pays tribute to those native- , and named after Fr Michael Briody of the born Scots who kept the Faith the secret seminary in the Braes Scalan Association said: “There through centuries of persecution, of Glenlivet which operated are several shrines at Carfin especially in The Enzie of from 1716 to 1799 during the honouring the Irish, Polish, Banffshire, Lochaber, Strathglass, Penal Laws against Catholicism. Lithuanian and Ukrainian “Blessed Morar”, the Southern The laws forbade the celebration immigrants who brought their Hebrides and Galloway. of Mass in Scotland; priests own contribution and strength The Scalan altar is a worthy were prohibited from being in to the Catholic Community representative of them all.” News from The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland Page 8 A new Tartan: The Ordinariate new tartan called is only taken if and when the project A“The Ordinariate” has been reaches its target. registered by the Ordinariate in Scotland with The Scottish The first bale of tartan would be Register of Tartans and is now used for this and the second for an official Tartan of Scotland. future orders through the Ordinariate It has been commissioned to Scotland website and ‘made to order’ mark the 10th Anniversary of by weavers Ingles Buchan, a family Anglicanorum Coetibus and the Canonisation business whose mill is in Selkirk in the Borders. of Blessed John Henry Newman later this year. It takes its inspiration from the three Ordinariates, as well as the four principle liturgical colours, with green being the dominant colour as it is used for most of the year.

The blue square, separated from the red by a yellow line (the crossed keys of St Peter) - the Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter. The white line dividing the To launch the project we have produced The blue square and the white (the stars surrounding the Ordinariate in Scotland tartan mugs costing M) the Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern £6.50 each but at a special introductory price in Cross. The purple (the brambles, the Crown of Scotland of £5.50 - ask your Ordinariate priest. Thorns), the three thin black stripes (the nails of the cross) - our Ordinariate vestments. The single black Fr Simon’s Landrover lines dividing the red squares, the Pierced Heart of r Simon will be Our Saviour and the twin hearts from Blessed John Fspreading the news Henry Newman: “Heart speaks unto heart”. of the Ordinariate in Scotland in Dumfries and The initialCrowd Funding Scheme, beginning Galloway by means of an soon, will fund two bolts of Tartan - around Ordinariate Scotland logo £5000. Contributors would pledge a sum for on the spare wheel on the an Ordinariate Tartan Bow Tie, Tartan Scarf, back of his Land Rover: the Shawl or Waistcoat, which they world receive Ordinariate Coat of Arms if the project reaches its target. Money pledged mounted on our new tartan The Ordinariate. The Personal Ordinariate in Scotland Inverness Edinburgh Nairn Whithorn

Royal Northern St Columba’s Church St Mary’s Church St Martin and St Ninian’s Infirmary Chapel 9 Upper Gray Street 7 Academy Street George Street Ness Walk, Inverness IV3 5SF Edinburgh EH9 1SN Nairn IV12 4RJ Whithorn DG8 8QA every Sunday at 11.30am Second Sunday First Monday every Tuesday Midweek - see ordinariate.scot of each month at 2.30pm of each month at 10am at 10.30am www.ordinariate.scot Clergy: Fr Len Black - [email protected] Fr Simon Beveridge - [email protected] Charity Reg No: 1141536 Fr Cameron Macdonald - [email protected] Fr Stanley Bennie - [email protected]