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News from Strong and Vibrant I Will Go Unto the Altar of God... Summer 2014 News from The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland www.scotlandordinariate.com 49 Laurel Avenue, Inverness IV3 5RR Telephone: 01463 233797 Summer 2014 Charity Reg No: 1141536 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, I almost 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.
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