News from The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland www.ordinariate.scot 49 Laurel Avenue, Inverness IV3 5RR Telephone: 01463 233797 Autumn 2015 Charity Reg No: 1141536 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, Pope 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 Indulgence 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 Sacrament of Reconciliation Pastoral Council individual Dioceses or as pilgrims and to the celebration of the Holy ? THE PORTAL comes to Rome, will experience the grace Eucharist 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 Church 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 Missal Diocesan Bishop, 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 Catholic”. 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 Saint 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 Oratory, 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, Prior 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 monk 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 Keith Newton, 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 Catholic Church 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 style, 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 altar 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, Parish 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 Holy Spirit 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.