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Jubilee Year of Mercy in this▸ issue...

From the Feast of the Immaculate Conception ??The Holy Year ... 2015 to the Solemnity of Christ the King 2016 & the Ordinariate

ith the approach of the WExtraordinary Jubilee of Mercy, Francis ??New Ordinariate writes, “I would like to focus ‘home’ in Stirling on several points which I believe require attention to enable the celebration of the Holy Year to be for ??St John all believers a true moment Ogilvie: of encounter with the mercy 400th of God. It is indeed my wish that Anniv. the Jubilee be a living experience of ??2015 the closeness of the Father, whose “Likewise, I dispose that the Ordinariate tenderness is almost tangible, so that may be obtained in the Festival the faith of every believer may be Shrines in which the Door of Mercy strengthened and thus testimony to it is open and in the churches which be ever more effective. traditionally are identified as Jubilee Churches. It is important that this “My thought first of all goes to moment be linked, first and foremost, ??The Ordinariate all the faithful who, whether in to the of Reconciliation Pastoral Council individual or as pilgrims and to the celebration of the Holy ??The Portal comes to Rome, will experience the grace with a reflection on mercy. to Scotland of the Jubilee. I wish that the Jubilee It will be necessary to accompany ??Visit to Greyfriars Indulgence may reach each one as a these celebrations with the profession Convent in Elgin genuine experience of God’s mercy, of faith and with prayer for me and which comes to meet each person in for the intentions that I bear in my the Face of the Father who welcomes heart for the good of the and and forgives, forgetting completely the of the entire world. ??Island hopping sin committed. Ordinariate priest “Additionally, I am thinking of those “To experience and obtain the for whom, for various reasons, it will ??Schoenstatt 2016 Indulgence, the faithful are called to be impossible to enter the Holy Door, ??Divine make a brief pilgrimage to the Holy particularly the sick and people who Worship Door, open in every Cathedral or are elderly and alone, often confined - The in the churches designated by the to the home. For them it will be of Diocesan , and in the four great help to live their sickness and ??2016 Ordinariate Papal Basilicas in Rome, as a sign of suffering as an experience of closeness Calendar the deep desire for true conversion. to the Lord who in the mystery of his Click on a title to jump to that page News from The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland Page 2

Passion, death and Resurrection or attending Holy Mass and community indicates the royal road prayer, even through the various means of which gives meaning to pain communication, will be for them the means of and loneliness. obtaining the Jubilee Indulgence.

“Living with faith and “Trusting in the intercession of the Mother joyful hope this moment of of Mercy, I entrust the preparations for this trial, receiving communion Extraordinary Jubilee Year to her protection.” The Holy Year...with the Ordinariate n the Ordinariate 2014 we were “Called to be IOne” ... in 2015 we are “Called to be Holy” and in 2016, celebrating the Jubilee Year of Mercy, we will be “Called to be ”. The possibility of a Holy Door in Our Lady of the Assumption and St Gregory, the Ordinariate’s church in Warwick Street, London.

TheCalled to be Catholic ‘year’ will again have a Novena of Prayer around the Feast of the Ascension of Our Lord. It will also be marked by ends of the earth. Here, he was told, he should a number of Ordinariate Pilgrimages in different found a church dedicated to St Andrew. He parts of the UK: 7th May to Holywelle, Kent, was accompanied on his voyage by a number of 4th or 11th June to Crediton, Devon, 18th June consecrated virgins, among these Triduana. to St Andrews here in Scotland, 25th June (the main event) to Walsingham, 9th July to Arundel According to the various accounts, Regulus was in Sussex and 8th October to the Birmingham either shipwrecked or told by an angel to stop on , home to the Shrine of Blessed John the shores of Fife at the spot called Kilrymont, Henry Newman, to conclude our Year of a Pictish settlement which is now St Andrews. Pilgrimage. Here he was welcomed by Óengus I, a Pictish king. Legend says that Regulus brought three Saint Andrew the Apostle fingers of the Saint’s right hand, the upper bone of The main Called“ to be Catholic” event here an arm, one kneecap and one of his teeth. in Scotland will be the Ordinariate Pilgrimage to St Andrews which we hope will bring people Around 1070, Robert I, of St Andrews, from south of the border to celebrate with us. built St Regulus Church in order to house the relics of St Andrew that Regulus had brought The nameSt Andrews derives from the town’s from Patras in Greece. It would serve as a claim to be the resting place of bones of the landmark for the many pilgrims that would come Apostle Andrew. According to legend, Saint to the area in the next few centuries. Its main Regulus (also known as Saint Rule), a 4th architectural feature is its 33 metre tall tower, century or bishop of Patras in Greece, known in the town as St Rule’s Tower (right in the then part of the Roman Empire. In AD 345 photo above). Regulus was told by an angel in a visionary dream that the Emperor Constantine had decided to Pilgrimage to St Andrews remove Saint Andrew’s relics from Patras to Full details of our Ordinariate Pilgrimage to Constantinople. For safekeeping Regulus was St Andrews will be made known in due course, told he had to move as many of the Apostle’s but in the meantime, please make certain this bones as far away as he could to the western date is in your diary - Saturday 18th June 2016! News from The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland Page 3

We are delighted that Penetential Preparation beside St James’ about the Holy Year, Monsignor , our Saint Rule’s Tower, close to the Pilgrimage and St Andrew. Ordinary, will be with us to lead ruins of St Andrews Cathedral, Our Pilgrimage will end with our Pilgrimage and we hope after which we will Process Benediction. we will be joined by members the short distance to St James’ of the Ordinariate from other in The Shores Plans for our Pilgrimage to parts of the UK. for our Pilgrimage Mass. After St Andrews are in their early Mass there will be time for stages but, in the meantime, Our Pilgrimage will begin lunch in St James’ hall. This please keep the date free - around 12 noon with a will be followed by a Talk in Saturday 18th June 2016. New Ordinariate ‘home’ in Stirling fter three years atHoly playing on various ASpirit, Stirling, the musical instruments. time has come to follow the Edinburgh example and move TheLady Chapel, to a more central location. So on the south side from Sunday 11th October of the Sanctuary, 2015 our monthly Ordinariate is ideal for our Mass in Stirling will be in the Ordinariate Use Lady Chapel at St Mary’s, Mass. It has, as Catholic Church, 15 Upper you can see in the Bridge Street, Stirling FK8 1ES, photograph (right), in the shadow of Stirling Castle. a magnificent stone carved reredos with angels on either St Mary’s is a church in the side kneeling in adoration and Gothic Revival , designed facing the Statue of Our Lady in by Pugin & Pugin of London the centre. in 1904-5. The founder of the Pugin & Pugin practice The is in its original was Edward Welby Pugin, position, making it ideal for eldest son of Augustus Welby the ad orientem (‘to the east’) Northmore Pugin, the English celebration of the Mass and architect, chiefly remembered their is an Altar rail, both for his pioneering role in of which fit well with then the Gothic Revival style and Ordinariate’s Guidelines for the whose work culminated in the Celebration of the Holy Eucharist. the month, we look forward to interior design of the Palace of seeing you at Mass at 4pm in Westminster. We are most grateful to Fr the Lady Chapel at St Mary’s Andrew Kingham, on Sunday 11th October (with St Mary’s was built in red Priest of St Mary’s for making Confessions from 3pm). Enter Dumfriesshire sandstone with this possible, as we are to Fr by the driveway on Upper a splendid Nave and two side Joseph Millar for allowing us Bridge Street and continue up aisles. It has a lofty vaulted to have our Ordinariate Mass the drive round the church and interior - 50 feet from the floor at for the past few through the white arch. There to the apex of the roof. The years. is parking above, behind the shafts supporting the main church. Come back down and ribs of the roof rest on corbels So, if you are in the Stirling enter the church by the side beautifully carved as angels area on the second Sunday of door into the Lady Chapel. News from The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland Page 4 St John Ogilvie: 400th Anniversary n Saturday 4th July 2015 Priest in Paris in 1610. After Othe Catholic Church ordination he made repeated in Scotland commemorated entreaties to be sent back to the 400th Anniversary of the Scotland to minister to the Martyrdom of St John Ogilvie remaining Catholics. After the with a National Pilgrimage in Scottish in 1560 Keith in Banffshire. it had become illegal to preach, proselytise for, or otherwise John Ogilvie, the son of a endorse, Catholicism. wealthy Laird, was born into a respected Calvinist family near He returned to Scotland in the town of Keith. In 1592, November 1613, travelling aged 13, his father, hoping that under the assumed name his son would one day become of John Watson, disguised a prominent figure in Scottish as a soldier returning from affairs, arranged for him to European wars looking to turn travel to Europe to further his to horse dealing. Landing at education and his experience of Leith, the port of Edinburgh, life. However, the path of life that he first headed for his native he was dying “for religion alone”, John was to take was not the one North-east, where the Catholic adding, “For that, I am prepared that his family had planned. faith was still flickering under to give even a hundred lives”. the protection of the powerful On 10th March 1615, aged 36 He travelled widely and Gordon, Earl of Huntly. years, John Ogilvie was paraded studied in France, Germany and through the streets of Glasgow Italy, listening to scholars, both He began to preach in secret, and hanged at Glasgow Cross. Calvinist and Catholic, discussing celebrating Mass clandestinely religion. This proved a source of in private homes. This took In the years following his inspiration. He also attended a him south to Edinburgh and death, Father John Ogilvie number of Catholic educational Glasgow. However, his ministry was revered as a martyr establishments, under the was to last less than a year. throughout Europe, wherever at Regensburg in In 1614, he was betrayed and his story was told. Following Germany and with the Jesuits at arrested in Glasgow and taken the Reformation, the Catholic Olomouc and Brno in the present to jail in Paisley. He suffered Church in Scotland had almost day Czech Republic. terrible tortures, including being died out. It stayed alive in kept awake for eight days and corners of Scotland, not least In the midst of the religious nine nights, in an attempt to in parts of the North-east and controversies and turmoil that make him divulge the identities especially in John Ogilvie’s engulfed the Europe of that of other Catholics. Ogilvie did homeland of Banffshire. era, in 1596 at the age of 17, he not relent and after a biased was registered as a student at trial, he was convicted of high At Scalan, in Glenlivet, the of Douai in treason for refusing to accept a seminary operated from France which had been moved the King’s spiritual jurisdiction. 1716-99, producing priests at the time to Louvain in who headed out to all parts Belgium. Here he was received A last-minute reprieve of of the country to minister in into the Catholic Church. his life and the promise of a secret. These brave men were substantial sum of money was following in the footsteps of He joined the Society of Jesus refused. He declared his loyalty the likes of Ogilvie. Scalan had in 1608 and was ordained a to the King, and made it clear been attacked and burned by News from The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland Page 5 government troops, but the of Highland Football League of Scotland, was staff and students returned side Keith FC. The Mass was , Archbishop of St from hiding to prepare to set attended by Catholics and Andrews and Edinburgh. The out and to keep our faith alive. others from all parts of Scotland preacher was Bishop Hugh In the latter half of the 1700s, and beyond, the Ordinariate Gilbert OSB. The setting for the Penal Laws were relaxed being represented by Fr Len the Mass was the ‘Missa de and in 1793 they were largely and Ruth Black, John Clegg, Fr Angelis’ which the Aberdeen abolished, allowing Catholics Stanley Bennie and Ordinariate Diocesan Choir and the once again to practise their members from Darlington and of sung religion openly and free of fear. London! beautifully.

The cause of martyrs such The day began in the rain The Mass itself would had as John Ogilvie lay dormant with a Showcase of the Catholic delighted members of the for many years until revived at Church in Scotland with stalls Personal Ordinariate of Our the close of the 19th Century and entertainment for all ages, Lady of Walsingham. It was when a process of investigating including a display about the beautifully celebrated with a extensive historical evidence Ordinariate. The altar for good choice of hymns - For all was opened by the Vatican, the Mass was on the football the , We plough the fields paving the way for the pitch with the concelebrants and scatter (echoing beatification of this man from and the special guests in front reading), Soul of my Saviour, Keith by Pope Pius XI in 1929. and the lay faithful sitting in Sweet Sacrament Divine, As a martyr of the Counter- the stand facing the altar. The and a special St John Ogilvie Reformation he is the only Mass began with the hymn, hymn written by Mother W. post-Reformation Saint from “For all the Saints who from Long RSCJ, sung to the tune Scotland. their labours rest”, sung lustfully Blaenwern. by all present, after which The 400th anniversary of Bishop , Bishop of Had their been a roof, it the Martyrdom of St John Aberdeen, welcomed everyone would have been lifted high Ogilvie was marked in Keith to this special commemoration. as everyone sang with great on Saturday 4th July 2015 gusto, celebrating the Life with the National Pilgrimage The main celebrant at the and Martyrdom of St John for the Church in Scotland in Mass - in the sunshine by then Ogilvie, Scotland’s only post- Kynoch Park, the home ground - with the and Priests Reformation Saint. News from The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland Page 6 2015 Ordinariate Festival he 2015 Ordinariate Congregation for the Doctrine TFestival was held in London of the Faith in Rome was the from 18th to 20th September Principal Celebrant at Mass in 2015. Michael Thrusfield and Westminster Cathedral. This Fr Len Black joined members, was celebrated according to who came from far and wide, the Ordinariate Use from the including two who had travelled new Missal. from Jakarta to be present. After lunchArchbishop On the Friday Fr Gerard Di Noia spoke of the way Sheehan of gave a the various most interesting talk about the had been set up and about position of the Ordinariate in the new Ordinariate Divine the Catholic Church. He drew Worship Missal outlining on his experience in Opus Dei its importance to the whole and the words of Pope Emeritus Catholic Church. The day Benedict and His Holiness Pope concluded with a “Charge” Francis, among others. delivered by the Ordinary of Archbishop Joseph Augustine Di Noia O.P. the Personal Ordinariate of On Saturday over two Our Lady of Walsingham, Mgr hundred Ordinariate members Keith Newton. packed into Westminster Cathedral Hall to hear reports On Sunday, those members from various Ordinariate who were able to stay in groups. These included the London, assembled for Sung newly formed group in Cardiff, Mass at the church of Our the new Ordinariate church Lady and Saint Gregory, in Torbay and the work at Warwick Street. Precious Blood, London Bridge. There was also a report on finances and plans to for some Ordinariate young people to attend the forthcoming World Mgr Keith Newton Youth Day in Poland. The talks and reports given at Archbishop Joseph the Festival are available Augustine Di Noia O.P. of the Michael Thrusfield and Fr Len Black here: www.tiny.cc/ord-fest The Ordinariate Pastoral Council he first meeting of the the Personal Ordinariate of “Representing Scotland, I TOrdinariate Pastoral Our Lady of Walsingham as we attended a one-dayOrdinariate Council, set up under the terms develop structures to assist the Pastoral Council meeting of the life of the Ordinariate. Michael in Gordon Square. London, Anglicanorum coetibus was Thrusfield (above), the elected on 10 October, together with held in London on Saturday Council representative for approximately 20 other clerical 10th October. This was an Scotland was present and has and lay participants from all important event in the life of prepared this report. of the Ordinariate’s regions News from The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland Page 7 in England (there were no as well as making it readily Andrews, here in Scotland) will, representatives from Wales). accessible to the Anglican no doubt, provide an excellent community in Britain, should opportunity for us to get to “There were several purposes any of its members wish to know better our counterparts to this initial meeting. enter the Ordinariate. throughout England and First, the Pastoral Council Wales. Finally, there was brief Statutes were discussed and “Close proximity of groups discussion of ‘Called to be One’, adopted. Secondly, and more in England more readily ‘Called to be Holy’ and ‘Called importantly, the recent report, fosters collaboration, but I to be Catholic’. ‘Growing Up – Growing Out: highlighted the particular Realising the Vision Laid out characteristic of distance in “Council meetings will be in Anglicanorum Coetibus’ was Scotland, pointing out that held regularly. The next will be discussed. This focussed on this was no deterrent! The held on Saturday 27 February, ways of improving the visible planned ‘round’ of Ordinariate and I would appreciate presence of the Ordinariate pilgrimages, planned next year receiving an items or issues that within the Catholic Church, to cover Britain (including St you would like to raise.”

The Portal comes to Scotland ackie Ottaway and Ronald Scotland’s Hidden Seminary, JCrane, Editors of The Portal Museum magazine, the monthly review near Aberdeen and met of the Ordinariate of Our members of the Ordinariate Lady of Walsingham, visited in Scotland. Scotland to prepare a Scottish edition of the magazine. Archbishop Cushley told The Portal, “I am delighted They wrote: “The Ordinariate that the Ordinariate within Jackie Ottaway and Ronald Crane may be small in Scotland, but it is the Archdiocese of St Andrews enjoying lunch near Edinburgh made of some wonderful people. & Edinburgh now have a Ordinariate members in Scotland monthly Mass in Edinburgh and Bishop Hugh Gilbert of are totally committed to the Stirling ... and I wish the Personal Aberdeen told The Portal, “The cause, and travel vast distances Ordinariate of Our Lady of key will be the next generation. (by UK standards) to attend an Walsingham in Scotland every Will the Ordinariate generate Ordinariate Mass. With just two blessing for the future.” its own life from within or will priests to cover the whole country, it always be dependent on those commitment is a necessity. We coming in from outside? Naturally, experienced that commitment the latter are part of the plot, but first hand, and it is inspiring.” I hope the Ordinariate will put down roots, that the children of The September issue featured converts will remain within it, Bishop Hugh Gilbert of that they will come forward for Aberdeen, Sister Anna Christi or the religious life, and of the Dominican Sisters of that, one day, you will have your Saint Cecilia in Elgin, Magnus o w n s e m i n a r y .” MacFarlane-Barrow, founder of the charity Mary’s Meals and You can read the Scotland Archbishop Leo Cushley, of edition of The Portal at: Saint Andrew’s and Edinburgh. www.portalmag.co.uk/ They also visitedScalan , portal/portal-2015-09.pdf News from The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland Page 8 Visit to Greyfriars Convent in Elgin n the 5th Sunday of in the 15th century. Greyfriars OAugust the Highland was sold to the Sisters of Ordinariate Group enjoyed an Mercy in 1891 and the ruined outing to Greyfriars Convent buildings of the Convent and in Elgin where Sister Anna Church were restored between Christi, one of the four 1896 and 1908 by the Marquis Dominican Sisters of St Cecilia, of Bute and his son, Lord Colum was there to welcome us. Crichton Stuart.

Greyfriars was founded The Church is a fairly large in 1479 on the site of a building, aligned east-west on previous Franciscan convent. the corner of Abbey Street The Franciscan friars were and Greyfriars’s Street. It was some of the original stonework introduced into Elgin by King mostly rebuilt at the end of the Alexander II in the 13th 19th century but is on the site of A very fine wooden Choir century and moved to this site the original building and re-uses Screen divides the nave from the choir and chancel beyond, with large double doors in the centre. The screen supports a large crucifix on top with flanking gilded angels.

It was a great delight to celebrate the Ordinariate Use Mass in this wonderful historic Catholic Church and we are most grateful to Sister Anna Christi and the Dominican Sisters of St Cecilia for their warm welcome. Island hopping Ordinariate priest r Stanley Bennie reports that Treasurer of the Catholic Fhe has been privileged over of & the recent months to be invited to Isles, and he therefore perform priestly duties in the often has to travel to majority of Catholic for related meetings. He in the Western Isles covering asks me to deputise for for parish priests who have him occasionally at Holy had to visit the mainland. The Redeemer, which is very people have been very kind and easy to do, because I live welcoming, and he has felt very 200 metres from the much at home. He writes: church. “Fr Roddy Johnstone, Parish “Fr Ross Crichton, priest of Holy Redeemer, parish priest of St Stornoway, , is the Mary’s, Griminish, Isle News from The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland Page 9

went on two occasions Eriskay presbytery until his during this period to sad death in July 2012. The perform priestly duties causeway between South Uist at Ardkenneth and St and Eriskay which opened in Mar y’s , B o r nish (opened 2001 has enabled Eriskay to be 1837) and at the linked served from Daliburgh. The churches of St Bride’s, parishes in the Western Isles of West Gerinish (opened the Catholic 1966) and St Joseph, & the Isles are in good heart, Howbeg (opened 1902). and the people and are very supportive. “ Donald J. MacKay, parish priest “I also travel at least once, or, of when possible, twice a month, Fr Stanley Bennie and one of St Peter’s Daliburgh, his regular modes of transport! South Uist (opened to participate in the regular 1868 and 1907) asked Ordinariate Mass at St Peter of Benbecula (opened 1884) me to cover for his absence and St Boniface, Fortrose, is involved inter alia,in the during the Priests’ Council on the Black Isle, as well as promotion of the Gaelic in Oban. He is assisted by to London to attendPlenary language and is an adjudicator at his Permanent Deacon, the Sessions of the Ordinariate the Royal National Gaelic Mod. Rev Martin Matheson. I Clergy, part of the continuing said Mass also at the linked formation of the clergy. “Fr Michael MacDonald, churches, Our Lady of Sorrows, parish priest of St Michael’s, Garrynamonie, a modern “So travel is very much part of Ardkenneth (opened 1829) church opened in 1964, and my life in the Ordinariate, as it is in Campbeltown was away St Michael’s, Eriskay (opened for Fr Len. It is like going back to from the parish due to illness in 1852 and 1903). Fr Calum my younger days when I drove for an extended period during MacLellan, who featured as itinerant priest in the Scottish the last year, and has now in the television series, “An Episcopal Church round the made a successful recovery. I Island Parish” and lived in the North Highlands and Skye.” Schoenstatt 2016 ollowing the success of Four Ordinariate Scotland Schoenstatt weekends over the past few years we have made a booking for 2016 from Friday the 4th until Sunday the 6th March 2016,.

As in past years we should plan to arrive on Friday between 4 and 5pm in time for Evening Prayer, followed by drinks before dinner, with our departure after lunch on Keith Newton will be able to in the year along with a booking Sunday between 1 and 2pm. join us, but he has been invited! form but in the meantime Full details of our Schoenstatt please make certain that the We are not yet certain if Mgr weekend will be available later dates are in your diary. News from The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland Page 10 Divine Worship - The Missal he new Divine Worship: the , Proper of Time and Sanctoral TThe Missal is to be cycle with Votive, Ritual and Masses for the Dead published in November. The with all the main liturgical texts set to music. texts for the celebration of Mass have been approved and It will come into use on Advent Sunday, 29th promulgated by the for November 2015. At the moment it is only the use in the Personal Ordinariates Altar edition that is being published but it is established under the Apostolic possible a pew edition might follow, depending on Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus. demand.

The Missal“will foster the noble and worthy celebration of the sacred in the Ordinariates worldwide, and provide an essential study text for all who love the Church’s worship”. It includes Ordinariate Calendar he Portal magazine, along with LOGS - the TLadies Ordinariate Group - have produced an Ordinariate Calendar for 2016. It has photographs from the Ordinariate around the UK (including Scotland), the full Ordinariate Liturgical Calendar and space for your appointments.

You can order a copy using the Order Form on the right, or using PayPal at www.portalmag. co.uk ... at a cost of £6.25 (£5+£1.25 P&P) or £25 for 5 post free. If you are able to collect your Calendar at the December Ordinariate Mass in Edinburgh, Stirling or Fortrose you will pay only £5 per Calendar when you collect it, but you MUST pre-order your copy by email from [email protected] or telephone 01463 235597. Ordinariate Scotland Mass Centres Inverness Edinburgh Stirling

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