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Strong and vibrant in this▸ issue... The Ordinariate in Scotland is ‘on the move’ Click on a title to jump to that page ??I will go unto the he Personal Ordinariate of Our we received our initial formation, altar of God... TLady of Walsingham is now in its little was understood about the The Ordinariate fourth year being established by Pope Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Use in Scotland Benedict XVI on 15th January 2011. Walsingham or about the situation ??My first year as a Since then, we have come a long way. that we, as a group, were in. Seminarian All that is now well behind us difficult beginnings and we are much more “strong For most of us in Scotland our and vibrant”, as Catherine Utley, ‘journey home’ began during Lent Communications Officer of the 2011. This was not a particularly Ordinariate, found when she spent the easy time for any of us being unable weekend with us at the Schoenstatt to receive the Sacrament of the Body Retreat Centre. ??Our weekend at and Blood of Our Lord for the whole Now it is time to plan for the future Shoenstatt of Lent and being in a situation and for the Mission of the Ordinariate where, despite the friendship shown in Scotland. We are ‘on the move’ as ??Father Stanley writes ... to us by the Catholic parishes where you will discover as you read on. ??“All eyes are I will go unto the altar of God... upon you” How The Ordinariate Use is ‘settling down’ he new Ordinariate Use, which broken away too from the trajectory Tintegrates centuries old Anglican of modern Anglican liturgical revision. prayers into the Roman Rite, was But we have most truly discovered officially introduced at the Church of a way of joining together Cranmer’s Our Lady of the Assumption and St linguistic brilliance, and feel for Gregory in London, on 10th October translation, with the ancient Canon ??London visit 2013. Even before then, with the of the Mass, prayed everywhere ??Called to be One permission of our Ordinary, the new from the time of St Augustine until Ordinariate day Ordinariate Use was being used at all the Reformation, that is, a thousand ??First Ordinariate our Mass centres in Scotland. years. And that Canon continues to National Festival be prayed throughout the Universal ??Ordinariate continuity Church. There’s continuity for you.” liturgical books In his sermon when the Ordinariate So how has the new Ordinariate Use Use was introduced in London, Mgr settled down in Scotland? ??News from the Ordinariate Andrew Burnham said: “Have we, in the Ordinariate, dreamed up our centuries of faith and belief ??The garden at very own ‘hermeneutic of rupture’? Tony O’Rourke of the Ordinariate Aultgowrie Mill Certainly, we have broken away from Group in Stirling is delighted with ??Blessed John the Church in which most of us had the new Use because of its similarity Henry Newman spent most of our lives. We have to the Use of Sarum, thus making in Scotland News from The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland Page 2
a forceful connection into pre-Reformation church. He also feels that the use of the Roman Canon connects us into centuries of faith and belief while elements of the Anglican tradition bringing dignity and reverence. Another point in its favour is that it is very adaptable for the Missa Cantata and sung settings of the Mass generally.
an old familiar friend Michael Thrusfield of the Edinburgh Group Mass at St Peter and St Boniface, Fortrose feels that the Ordinariate Use has ‘bedded down’ a firm foundation extremely well. “It feels like an old familiar John and Rosanna Clegg from the Highland friend, containing much of the 1662 Book of Group both appreciate our Ordinariate Use Common Prayer, on which I was brought up. Its Mass. use of traditional language imbues a degree of “It provides a strong reassurance in a most reverence that modern liturgies lack. Moreover, consistent way. The use of the very beautiful it also contains components of the earlier 1549 traditional words and the biblical background pre-Reformation liturgy (as well as later Scottish give a firm foundation. There are clear reminders liturgies), which dates back to the Sarum Use. As of God’s greatness and the forgiveness that is such, it is a very appropriate Anglican contribution available to us all.” to the larger Western Church, symbolizing “Receiving Holy Communion is once again a continuity which was fractured during the treated with especial reverence and kneeling to Reformation, and which we are now healing.” receive is very special for us, as it helps us to feel For those who wish to explore earlier Anglican suppliant in our daily materialistic world.” liturgies, and their relationships further, Michael “The dignity and solemnity of the Mass is most recommends W. Keeling’s Liturgiae Brittanicae, important to us, and the priest being in front 2nd edn., 1851, Pickering/Deighton, London/ of the altar once again add to the ‘mystery’ and Cambridge; reprinted 1969, Gregg International, to the symbolism of the priest being ‘with the Farnborough, is fascinating reading. people’ in the sacrifice of the Mass.” Looking back on my first year Tobias Parker reflects on his first year as a Seminarian cannot believe that I have four formal interviews and two at Greyfriars for the first time, Ialmost finished my first year days of intensive psychological a feeling which reminded me of Seminary! It seems almost evaluation- as a result of which slightly of arriving at my school yesterday that I came down I had both a certificate to prove boarding house aged 13, with from Edinburgh to commence my sanity, and permission from my luggage in tow, although this study at the beginning of last the Ordinariate hierarchy to time it was a kindly friar rather October. begin priestly formation! than a genial housemaster who Beginning as a seminarian I had already been to Oxford answered the door and showed was the happy result of a fairly twice as part of the interview me in. exhaustive application process process, during which time I The set up at present is that during the summer, which had a chance to meet my two we live with the Capuchin necessitated regularly travelling fellow seminarians properly, friars at Greyfriars (formerly back and forth between and to see something of the set- a University Hall) and study Scotland and the South of up in Oxford, but there was still with the Dominican Studium England to attend a grand total a slight feeling of stepping into at Blackfriars Hall (which of three informal interviews, the unknown when I arrived still functions as an Oxford News from The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland Page 3
University Hall). which theology is built. I have Greyfriars has a stable also begun learning Latin, under community of about 8 friars, the watchful eye of a very kindly which we live alongside, eat but formidable Dominican breakfast and supper with, sister - which at times really attend their daily mass on the does feel like being back at days when we are not assisting school! at Ordinariate services and There is a good social life take it in turns to visit their to balance the studious housebound parishioners as atmosphere- aside from part of our pastoral placement, the seminarians there something I hope to begin are a number of visiting helping with next term. American undergraduates Although we often attend the who bring a great deal of life friars Mass, we say our own Tobias and Tess, the Schoenstatt dog, and enthusiasm. We have a Office in common three times at our Ordinariate Scotland weekend Blackfriars wine society which a day (Morning and Evening which is heartening. is good fun, and the American Prayer plus Compline), using In addition to the regular students recently organised a the Ordinariate Customary. masses, we hold Evensong and Hall Ceilidh - which allowed The structure of the daily Benediction according to the the two St. Andrews graduate Office, expressed through the Customary once a term in seminarians to show them how Cadences of the Coverdale Blackfriars chapel, and are often to Ceilidh properly! Psalter and with so many called in to serve for events Next year I will continue elements drawn from at the Ordinariate Churches with philosophy, which, Patrimonial sources has been a in London, most recently providing that all goes well, will great blessing (although getting the Chrism mass and Easter be followed by four years of up at 6.15 every morning to be Triduum. Theology. ready to begin it has sometimes The third of part of our So far, all has gone very well felt more of a penance!) life in Oxford is studying at - I feel settled in Oxford, and Aside from the Office, our the Dominican Studium at certainly feel that I am in the spiritual and liturgical life Blackfriars Hall. This is largely right place at the moment, largely takes place at Holy Rood (although not exclusively) although I am of course Church, a late 1960s building composed of seminarians from looking forward to being back to the West of central Oxford, religious orders. Apart from the in Edinburgh this summer. I which the Ordinariate assists its Dominicans, we study alongside hope possibly to do a summer (ex-Anglican) diocesan priest to Franciscans, Benedictines, a pastoral placement with one of run, allowing him to say mass in Discalced Carmelite, and an the Scottish Dioceses for a few one of the other two churches in Oratorian. weeks, which should provide his care. We serve the modern At present I am about to some useful parish experience. Roman rite Mass three times a finish the first of two years of I very much hope that all will week (in Latin on Fridays) and philosophy, which are intended continue to flourish in Oxford- the Ordinariate Use twice a to lay the groundwork for the please do pray for the all the week - Low Mass on Thursday four years of Theology to follow. seminarians at Blackfriars, and evenings and Missa Cantata I already have an MTheol that the Ordinariate might on Saturday evenings. The degree, so have studied theology get further vocations. Three congregation is not large (there before (although at a largely seminarians is a good start, but are so many Catholic churches Presbyterian faculty!), but have four, five or six would be even nearby, including the Oxford found it valuable to go back better! Oratory), but we have a number further and study some of the We assure Tobias of our prayers of very committed supporters, philosophical concepts upon and continuing support News from The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland Page 4 Blessed to be a part of the Ordinariate During Lent members of the Ordinariate in Scotland spent a weekend at the Schoenstatt Retreat Centre in Campsie Glen with Mgr Keith Newton Catherine Utley, the Ordinariate’s Communications Officer, looks back on the weekend
nlike the famous Dr the top of a small hill can often so that they could share a wider “UJohnson who could give you a wonderful overview vision, so that they would be not bear to look at them, I of the countryside and allows given a new understanding of like mountains”. So began you to see local towns and the mission of Jesus, I knew Monsignor Keith Newton, in an villages in relation to each other. what he was talking about. excellent homily on Matthew’s The higher you go the greater The homily also chimed account of the Transfiguration, the vision before you”. with my impressions, formed delivered to a gathering of the Seated there in the delightful over that weekend, of the Ordinariate in Scotland at a little chapel in the grounds of Ordinariate in Scotland. It is residential weekend last month the retreat centre, I felt engaged very small and very far-flung, in the beautiful setting of the with what Mgr Newton was but it seemed to me to have Schoenstatt Retreat Centre at saying. The day before, I had a remarkably strong sense of the foot of the Campsie Fells been for a walk with him and its mission, of the part that near Glasgow. we had climbed what seemed it has to play in fulfilling the “If you ever try to climb to me to be a mountain. (I great vision of unity which a great mountain you feel was surprised that he and Pope Benedict had when he small and insignificant”, others on the weekend established the Ordinariates. It Mgr Newton went on. described it as a small hill!) made me think of the mustard “In comparison, one of At any rate, the view had seed and of great movements in the rewards of walking been spectacular and the Church starting from very up a mountain is the when Mgr Newton small beginnings. commanding view it spoke in his homily Led by Fr Len Black (without gives you as you of Jesus taking whom it would not have ever look down on the Peter, James existed) assisted by Fr Stanley world below. and John Bennie, the Ordinariate in Even to up a high Scotland stand mountain at News from The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland Page 5 consists presently of no more than about thirty lay members centred in sub groups in the Highlands, Stirling, Edinburgh and Stornoway. Fr Black runs the largest group which worships near Inverness. On one Sunday every month he travels to Edinburgh and then on to Stirling, celebrating an Ordinariate Mass in both places. The round trip is ?? miles. When Fr Bennie, based Enjoying the comfort and tranquility at in Stornoway, attends an event Schoenstatt Retreat Centre with the Ordinariate group in Inverness, it involves a three Ordinariate Use of the Roman hour ferry trip, followed by an rite, which is the only liturgy the hour on the bus. He does not Ordinariate in Scotland uses turn a hair. Some of the lay and which they say gives them a members happily and regularly strong sense of shared identity. travel up to 50 miles to worship They love the reverent way in with their Ordinariate group. which the Ordinariate Masses Given how spread out it is, and services are celebrated, the what, then, accounts for the strong preaching, the beautiful sense of cohesiveness which is music and the socialising Mass in the beautiful little chapel such a striking features of the afterwards, all of which they see at Schoenstatt Ordinariate in Scotland and as part of the treasure which why do its members clearly feel they have brought with them Now that it is properly so blessed to be a part of this from the Episcopal Church established, it has plans to move project? and all of which were strongly into more central locations. In my conversations with in evidence at Schoenstatt. At It is also receiving increasing those who attended that the same time they love being numbers of enquiries from the memorable weekend at the part of the full communion of Glasgow area and may well start foot of the Campsie Fells, some the one, true Catholic Church a group there before long. When common themes emerged. which knows what it believes in this happens, Fr Black’s monthly They had all grown to love and speaks up for it. They feel travel will increase to 800 miles. the centuries’ old words of the touched and grateful for the “Don’t you ever feel daunted by strong support and unqualified what you have taken on”? I ask welcome they have received him. He dismisses the notion from the Catholic bishops in politely, but out of hand. “If ever Scotland. They enjoy getting I feel as though it’s a big climb, together – there was much talk I just talk to some of the lay over the weekend of planned people who have joined us and pilgrimages and of their their enthusiasm and joy gives forthcoming annual trip to do me such a lift that it seems like the Stations around an island in nothing” he says. Spending the a river outside Inverness. weekend with them makes me The Ordinariate in Scotland know what he means. Like Mgr Stations of the Cross with Mgr Keith (and may be small, but it is strong Newton, the Scots are a people Tess) around the grounds at Schoenstatt and vibrant and it is growing. who like mountains. News from The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland Page 6 Father Stanley writes... think myself so fortunate the Diocese and I have already Ito be part of the Personal said Mass in places such as St Ordinariate of Our Lady Mary’s, Benebecula, St Peter’s, of Walsingham. It is such a Daliburgh, St Michael’s, Eriskay, relief after the tensions of the St Mun’s, Ballachulish, and The Episcopal Church which in Good Shepherd, Kinlochleven. 1994 promised traditionalists It has been a great joy to be part an honoured place for all of such a welcoming Diocese. time within the church ... and Bishop Joseph has just the members of the commission nothing was ever done. been appointed as Bishop of who drafted the text came from When Pope Benedict XVI Motherwell and I wish him the American Episcopalian made the offer, I felt, ‘how could every blessing in his new tradition. Their eucharistic I refuse’, after all, it was what we appointment. He has been so liturgy was based on the Scottish had been praying for all these kind to me and so welcoming Episcopalian eucharistic rite years. Within the Ordinariate as I have found my place in the because the first American it is such a relief not having to Catholic Church Episcopalian bishop, Samuel fight for one’s beliefs any more. Fr Len reminded me of Bishop Seabury, was consecrated in In Stornoway the offer Joseph’s comments at my Aberdeen on 14th November coincided with my retirement, Ordination when he recalled 1784 by Scottish Episcopalian so it was an opportune time during a recent Ad Limina visit bishops. for me. The warmth of my by the Scottish Bishops to Rome The text is conservative and reception at Holy Redeemer, (the meeting every five years is similar to the 1929 Scottish Stornoway, was marvellous. of the bishops with the Pope) Liturgy that was used in my I knew many of the people they had a talk from the Prefect boyhood, so much so that I already from my 26 years in of the Congregation for the find that I can recite familiar Stornoway and I was made most Doctrine of the Faith about the texts from memory. It is good, welcome. Ordinariate. He recalled that, also to be able to sing familiar at the time, he thought that he eucharistic musical settings such didn’t need to pay too much as that by John Merbecke, that attention, as it would never are such an important part of affect him in the Diocese of our Anglican patrimony. The Argyll and the Isles ... and there permitted options allow a range he was, ordaining a new priest of configurations from a simple for the Ordinariate! ‘said service’ to a Tridentine- It reminded me of the verse style High Mass. ‘God moves in mysterious I do, however, find the text ways, his wonders to perform” somewhat wordy in places. For and I give thanks for the many example, reciting the phrase blessings I have received - and ‘Lord, I am not worthy...’ three all of us - through the Personal times before receiving Holy Ordinariate of Our Lady of Communion, although when Bishop Joseph Toal Walsingham. I was young, it was explained Bishop Joseph Toal, Bishop I was pleasantly surprised that it was to remind us of the of Argyll and the Isles, has when the Ordinariate Use for betrayal of Jesus by Peter three shown me such kindness and I the Mass was issued and how times. Also, the long Prayer have been made most welcome familiar the texts were. I soon of Thanksgiving and the Post- throughout the Diocese. It is a realised that the reason was Communion prayer are both great joy have been of service in that an influential number of required to be said. It would be News from The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland Page 7
better if only one prayer needs forms and liturgical customs Questions, questions, to be said. of the present-day Western questions ... but despite all of One of our great difficulties Rite Catholic Church. How them, we share the great joy in the Ordinariate is that many do we inform anglicans that of being part of the Personal people think that ‘we have this is not so? Are people from Ordinariate of Our Lady of become Roman Catholic’, with an Anglican background still Walsingham. the implication that we have responsive to traditional Prayer Deo gratias! embraced entirely the worship Book style patterns of worship? “All eyes are upon you” Cardinal Müller meets the Ordinaries he Prefect of the assimilation, while Catholics TCongregation for the will want to know that you Doctrine of the Faith has are here to stay, strengthening spoken to the three Ordinaries our ecclesial cohesion rather of the Personal Ordinariates of than setting yourselves apart the delicacy and importance as another divisive grouping of their task “in these first within the Church... It is your key years” in the ordinariates’ delicate, but all-important Cardinal Gerhard Müller existence. task both to preserve the In February Mgr Keith integrity and distinctiveness of Divine Worship [or Ordinariate Newton, our Ordinary, along your parish communities and, Use] texts is both essential to with Mgr Harry Entwistle, at the same time, help your the formation of the identity of of the Personal Ordinariate people integrate into the larger the ordinariate as well as being a of Our Lady of the Southern Catholic community”. tool for evangelisation.” Cross (Australia) and Mgr Turning his attention to Cardinal Müller said that, Jeffrey Steenson, Ordinary of the importance of the sacred in responding to the Holy the Personal Ordinariate of the liturgy as the expression of Father’s invitation to serve as Chair of Saint Peter (North communion, Cardinal Müller Ordinary, each of the three America) met with Cardinal said that the ordinaries’ role in men had demonstrated great Gerhard Ludwig Müller Rome. this regard was critical. courage and deep faith and that Cardinal Müller told the “By ensuring that the sacred their journey had called for Ordinaries that, because the liturgy is celebrated worthily considerable personal sacrifice. unity of the Church was the and well, you further the “I want you to know that ostensible reason for the estab- communion of the Church by I have spoken to our Holy lishment of the Ordinariates, drawing people into the worship Father, Pope Francis, about the effective communion would be a of God who is communion”. ordinariates and the particular principal measure against which He said that the sacred liturgy gift they are to the Church. The ordinariate communities would was also the “privileged place” Holy Father is following the be judged. for encountering Anglican development of the ordinariates “You will come under scrutiny patrimony, which was how with great interest”, he said. from many quarters”, he said. ordinariate parishes and The visit to Rome by the “All eyes are upon you”! communities distinguished Ordinaries from America, Cardinal Müller continued: themselves, bearing witness to Australia and the UK – three “Anglicans will be interested the faith in the diversity of its years after the first of the three in how well you are able to expression. He continued: Ordinariates was established – make a home in the Catholic “In this sense, the celebration was the first time the three of Church that is more than just according to the approved them had all met together. News from The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland Page 8 Our Lady of the Assumption & St Gregory Michael Thrusfield visits the OrdinariateC hurch in London
uring a recent trip to happy times, when the Catholic It is also clearly a refuge for DLondon, I paid my first Church was not free to worship the homeless, some of whom visit to the Ordinariate Church in the UK). were sleeping on the floor of in Warwick Street (happily, it My first impression was one the nave – shades of the early was open during the day). You of peacefulness – it is a very Scottish Anglo-Catholic city will be aware of the recent visit easy place in which to sit and parishes! of the Portuguese Ambassador, quietly contemplate. One’s Unfortunately, my timing was pointing to its fascinating eyes are immediately drawn such that I could not attend a history (it was, variously a to the Sanctuary, which has service. But, I plan to rectify Portuguese and Bavarian an ‘Orthodox feel’ to it, with that at the Ordinariate National Embassy Chapel during less typically Eastern images. Festival in September. Called to be One A major evangelisation initiative planned for September aturday 6th September Ordinary, Mgr Keith Newton, former Anglican colleagues, and Shas been set aside as reminded people of the vision equally who have lapsed from an “exploration day” when that was set out in the Apostolic the practice of the Faith. It is an Ordinariate groups throughout Constitution. important work of ecumenism.” the country will organise local He said: “It is to maintain In Scotland plans are in hand activities designed for people the liturgical, spiritual and for a ‘Called to be One’ day in who are not currently part of pastoral traditions of the the Chapel Royal of Falkland the Ordinariate, but who wish Anglican Communion within Palace near Edinburgh which to learn more about it. Among the Catholic Church, as a is believed to be dedicated to St those invited to the events, precious gift nourishing the Thomas of Canterbury and is which will be widely publicised, faith of the members of the now used by the Catholic parish will be Anglicans – both lapsed Ordinariate and as a treasure in Falkland and the linked and practising – who might be to be shared. It is this vision parish of St Paul’s and St Mary’s, interested in the vision for truth which we need to foster within Glenrothes and Leslie. and unity in communion with our own communities and Full details will be available the successor of Peter which the which we need to communicate, soon, but in the meantime, Ordinariate offers. both with our fellow Catholics, please put the date in your diary Announcing the event, our but also with our friends and for Called to be One. Ordinariate Festival eptember will be a busy Church in England and Wales, Smonth for the Ordinariate who will deliver an address on as the firstOrdinariate Festival the how the Ordinariate fits in will be over the weekend of to the life and mission of the Friday 19th to Sunday 21st wider Catholic Church in the September. United Kingdom. The guest of honour will be The festival is expected to be Cardinal Vincent Nichols with Mgr Keith Cardinal Vincent Nichols, the biggest gathering of clergy across the country, since the Archbishop of Westminster and and faithful from the more Ordinariate was established. head of the Roman Catholic than forty Ordinariate groups It will begin on the Friday News from The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland Page 9
evening of Friday with a Mgr Newton said: “The the chance both to reflect on reception. The main events Ordinariate groups are very how well we are achieving what will be on the Saturday with scattered so this will be an Cardinal Müller asked of us Mass in Westminster Cathedral excellent opportunity for us here in the UK, and to reach at 12.30. On the Sunday the all to meet together and we out to others and show them Festival will conclude ate 13.30 are absolutely delighted that more of this great ecumenical with Sung Mass at Our Lady of Cardinal Nichols will be with us. project of which we are so the Assumption and St Gregory. This event will also give us proud to be a part”. Ordinariate liturgical books Divine Worship Occasional Offices and Mass Book
vidence that the Worship - Occasional Services, will be available in hard-back EOrdinariates around the was also published in hard-back before the end of this year and world have ‘come of age’ can be with the Order of Holy Baptism, will contain the Order of Mass seen with the publication of our the Order of Solemnisation with all the Propers, Collects books of Divine Worship. of Holy Matrimony and the and Prefaces, the Liturgies for We already had the Customary Order of Funerals “for use by the the Holy Triduum. Music will of Our Lady of Walsingham - Ordinariate under the auspices also be included . . . excellent Daily Prayer for the Ordinariate of the Apostolic Constitution news indeed for all of us in the - published in 2002 and this Anglicanorum coetibus”. Personal Ordinariate of Our March, the book, Divine TheDivine Worship Missal Lady of Walsingham. News from the Ordinariate ave you signed up yet for clicking on the Newsletter link. Hthe new Weekly Newsletter Also, if you have not yet found from the Personal Ordinariate The Portal magazine which is of Our Lady of Walsingham published on-line on the first which comes out every Friday day of every month, sign up afternoon? It brings the latest at www.portalmag.co.uk. It news of events happening and is the monthly review of the events planned. Ordinariates in the UK and now taken on the task of You can sign up for the Australia. administering the main Newsletter on the website - You might also be interested Ordinariate website and helping www.ordinariate.org.uk - by to know that Fr Len has to expand communications. Aultgowrie Mill Rosanna and John Clegg look back on a hectic weekend
n Sunday the 25th May we opened our Ogarden to the public for the first time this year. As usual we had the yearly panic whilst we tried to get everything ready for the big day. We had a plant stall with many different plants Rosanna Clegg in her garden at Aultgowrie Mill and shrubs for sale and teas and homemade News from The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland Page 10
Before ... cakes served on the lawn. All the proceeds from admission fees, plant sales and teas go to worthwhile Scottish Garden Charities and as the owners of the garden we can choose a charity dear to our own hearts. We always choose the Royal National Lifeboat Institute. To help us with catering and plant sales the committee from the Inverness Lifeboat Station ... and after!
came along to help. Although the weather wasn’t kind to us this time, we still managed to raise over £900 and were pleased to be able to give the RNLI £400. Our garden is starting to become well known and BBC Scotland’s “Beechgrove Garden” are coming to film us at the end of June. We also have the Skye Gardening Club and the Muir- of-Ord Gardening Club visiting us in July, so it looks as if Rosanna’s hard work is beginning to be appreciated. Blessed John Henry Newman Fr Len and Ruth Black discover Newman’s haven in Scotland
hose of us in the Personal home of the man who brought life to build the home of his TOrdinariate of Our Lady Scotland and things Scottish to dreams, Abbotsford House, of Walsingham, know much the heart of Queen Victoria, near Melrose. about Blessed John Henry. He Sir Walter Scott, the historical Scott died in September was as a fellow of Oriel College, novelist, playwright and 1832 in the home he Oxford, an Anglican priest poet ,whose novels and had designed and built and leading light in the Oxford poetry are still read and although he died Movement. today, with many of owing money, his We know that he was received his works remaining as novels continued to into the Catholic Church in classics. sell and the debts were 1845, was made a Cardinal at Scott was born 1771 discharged shortly after the age of seventy eight and in the Old Town of his death. In the hands beatified by Pope Benedict XVI Edinburgh near of his descendents, on September 19th 2010 in the Grassmarket, Abbotsford Birmingham. But did you know but at the age of Sir Walter Scott House continued that John Henry Newman also two he suffered to flourish and had close links with the Scottish a bout of polio that left him today, architecture and interior Borders? lame. To cure his lameness was decoration combine to make it A chance finding in a book sent to live with his paternal an iconic building of the 19th about ecclesiastical vestments grandparents in the Scottish century Scottish Baronial style. lead us to a discovery about Borders. This was the beginning With its wonderfully eccentric Blessed John Henry Newman of a love of the Borders that collections and antiquarian and Scotland. It took us to the would draw him back in later atmosphere, it is a key site News from The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland Page 11 in the history of European devoted reader of Sir Walter Charlotte’s death in childbirth Romanticism. Scott and his interest increased in Edinburgh. She was buried In 1847 Sir Walter Scott’s in 1847 when his close friend in in St Margaret’s Convent, grand-daughter, Charlotte, Oxford, James Hope, married Edinburgh. In 1861, James married James Robert Hope Scott’s grand-daughter. In 1852 Hope-Scott married Lady (later ‘Hope-Scott’). It was this Hope managed the defence in Victoria Fitzalan-Howard, but event, and his friendship the libel action brought sadly, in 1870, she also died with Hope, which would against Newman and it in childbirth, leaving several bring John Henry was at this time, while children. Newman to make awaiting judgement, Hope-Scott never overcame extended visits to that Newman first stayed the grief and shock of the deaths Abbotsford House at Abbotsford. While of his two wives and retired in on two occasions there he celebrated Mass 1870 spending his final years and where he left, in Sir Walter Scott’s involved in various literary and what today, are now James Hope-Scott former domestic charitable endeavours. In 1872 second-class holy relics. chapel in the basement of the Newman spent the summer In his youth James Robert house on a number of occasions. at Abbotsford with his good Hope, who was to marry In 1853, following the death friend while also undertaking Charlotte, had considered of his brother-in-law, many conversions to entering the ministry of the James Hope, assuming Catholicism in the Church of England but in the name of Hope- Scottish Borders and 1835 he gave up this intention Scott, added a new wing helping to found a and began to study law. In to Sir Walter Scott’s number of Catholic the 1840’s Hope became, with mansion which included Churches. Newman and others, one of a Catholic Chapel, James Hope-Scott the foremost promoters of no doubt with his was ever mindful of the Tractarian movement friend Newman in the religious needs of at Oxford which grew to mind. Looking to others and through become known as the Oxford the future, he also Bl John Henry Newman his benevolence, Movement. In 1851, four created a tourist route through built two churches for the use years after his marriage to the gardens and the house for of the Catholic community of Charlotte, Hope, together the ever increasing numbers Galashiels. When the first with Archdeacon Manning, of visitors. At this time Hope- chapel proved too small to was received into the Catholic Scott was also involved in the accommodate the increasing Church London. Charlotte building of churches and schools population of the town he soon followed her husband into for the Catholic community in purchased land and the Catholic Church. Newman the Borders, as well as assisting built a larger church, had been received into the struggling missions. Catholic Church in 1845. In 1858 tragedy struck Newman Hope-Scott with was a
Abbotsford House - the Chapel is through the archway with the gates on the left News from The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland Page 12
Our Lady and St Andrew. of a 19th century vestment. following the Beatification, the Sadly, James Hope-Scott did not Prior to the Beatification of two chasubles worn by Blessed live to attend the opening of the John Henry Newman in John Henry Newman became church. Birmingham on 19th September second-class holy relics. James Hope-Scott died on the 2010, the vestments had never Abbotsford House decided 20th of April 1873, aged 61, and that these events merited his funeral was held in the Jesuit the vestment being put on Church of the Immaculate permanent display. A new Conception in Farm Street, secure display area was created London, at which John Henry in the chapel entrance where the Newman preached the Eulogy. vestments and other artefacts Hope-Scott was buried in can now be seen by all who visit Edinburgh beside his first wife, one of the most famous houses Charlotte. in the world. Charlotte and James had three Abbotsford reflects, in a children but only their eldest unique way, the mind, enthus- daughter, Mary Monica Hope- iasms and preoccupations of Sir Scott survived into adulthood. Walter Scott, the man who built It was to her that Abbotsford it. But now Abbotsford House passed when her father died. also recalls the visits to say Mass The following year she married for his friend, of the man whose Joseph Constable-Maxwell motto was“Heart speaks unto and adopted the surname Heart”, Blessed John Henry Maxwell-Scott. Mary had Newman. known Newman all her life and A visit to Abbotsford House the two were close confidants. to see the vestments and, of It was in recognition of this course, Scott’s magnificent friendship that Newman gifted mansion, is surely a must for two beautiful chasubles, as well One of the two Chasubles which everyone within the Personal as his biretta and missal, which belonged to Bl John Henry Newman Ordinariate of Our Lady of were used by him when he been on public display. During Walsingham. The house and visited Abbotsford. One of the the visit by Pope Benedict gardens are open every day from chasubles is believed to include XVI the vestments April to November between 16th century tapestry panels were taken to Edinburgh for 10am and 5pm (4pm from mounted onto 18th century silk, the Pontiff to see. A few days October to November). and the second is a fine example later, on 19th September 2014, More at ww.scottsabbotsford.com Ordinariate Scotland Mass Centres Inverness Edinburgh Stirling
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