2018 Spring/Summer Edition – Issue 9 Friends of the Ordinariate Supporting the Holy See’s Vision for Christian Unity Ten New Deacons for the Ordinariate! Fr Hunwicke on the Diaconate News from the Ordinariate Monastery The Ordinariate in Russia Friends of the Ordinariate – 2018 Spring/Summer Friends of the Ordinariate – 2018 Spring/Summer From the Honorary President Chairman’s Message Contents Half-Awake From the President by Mgr Keith Newton 2 Catholic Church was A Spiritual Aeneid (1918) by Mgr. Dear Friends of the children to school from their new locations. Less obvious RonaldThe book Knox. that In most it he influenced makes the my analogy own conversion of slowly waking to the Ordinariate, was the loss of access to sources of additional support that up and, in his somnolence, being convinced that the bundle Chairman’s Message are available to clergy in the Church of England. There This year marks seven of sheets in front of him might perhaps by Peter Sefton-Williams 3 were no such funds for Ordinariate Clergy families. The years since the Ordinariate be a polar bear. But, as he returns to Ordinariate Families Fund seeks, in a small way, to begin to was erected on 15th consciousness, it looks less and less Thoughts on the Diaconate January 2011; much has like a bear. When fully awake, he cannot year and we have already set up a restricted fund and sought been achieved, while imagine how he had ever seen it as a by Fr Hunwicke 4 grantsfill this to gap. begin It was to resource formally it. launched in the early part of the much remains to be done. bear. In this manner he describes his There have been many As you see, the Ordinariate is busy raising funds but we are gradual awakening to the fullness of the Our New Deacons 5 – 7 still very grateful for and reliant on the continued generosity Catholic faith. Mgr Keith Newton encouraging signs over the past twelve months. We of the Friends of the Ordinariate. This describes my own experience. I Nuncio reception at Golden Square 7 With prayers best wishes for 2018 cannot now remember how I was ever raised the money to build a proper presbytery within one of convinced by the claims of authentic Yours sincerely in Christ theestablished existing ourchurch first halls personal on the parish site of in our Torbay church and there. have We Catholicity within the Anglican Ordinariate Announces Major have also strengthened our presence in the north of England Communion, even though I did so Lay Conference for 2018 7 with new initiatives in York and in South Manchester. Much devoutly at the time. As the Church of England sails, in most of this work has been made possible through the generous respects, away from the Barque of Peter, my amazement contributions of the Friends of the Ordinariate. grows at those still sustained and consoled by this belief. News from the Monstery The highlight of last year was the Ordination of ten deacons The recent decision to appoint The Right Rev Dame by Reverend Mother Winsome SBVM 8 & 9 The Right Revd Monsignor Keith Newton by Bishop Robert Byrne Cong. Orat at St James’s, Spanish Sarah Mullally as the new Bishop of London can only be Place in London. It is these ordinations that this edition of Hon. President interpreted as an act of provocation towards those who The Ordinariate in Russia! the Friends newsletter focusses on in particular. Two of The Friends of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham are putting their trust in the various provisions designed by Nicolas Ollivant and Ivan Fadeyev those deacons, Simon Beveridge and Cameron Macdonald, to protect the Catholic-minded minority. But in light of this 10 & 11 have already been ordained to the priesthood to help with unexpected appointment, how long can it before the General the growing Ordinariate mission in Scotland; they joined Fr Synod of the Church of England, or even the State itself, The York Ordinariate Ian Westby as our new priests in 2017. The remaining eight Have you Gift-Aided your strikes out these protective measures? And, when they do by John Konstantin Tee 12 men will be ordained priest on 30th June at the Birmingham so, who can blame them since they represent a majority Oratory, and I hope as many people as possible will be there Donation? view within the Church of England? to support these men as they take this important step. The Ordinariate Concelebration set If you are a UK taxpayer and donate to the Friends of the Now is the time to remind those who are starting to A distinguishing mark of a mature organisation is that Ordinariate, we can claim 25p from HMRC for every £1 question their long-term security within the Anglican by Anthony Delarue 13 that you give us. For this reason, we urge all our donors Communion that there is, indeed, a thriving and viable Ordinariate is extremely generous but, unlike the dioceses, alternative. The Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham Forthcoming Events 14 weit properly have no finances endowments its activities. which we The may giving draw within upon. theWe are offers a sanctuary to those with doubts over the validity of therefore entirely reliant from day to day upon the good this Newsletter, returning it to us at: to fill in and tear off the Gift Aid form on the back page of their Sacramental life; where their previous ministry and will of the members of the Ordinariate and the fundraising witness will be valued and applauded, and where they will Ordinariate Lapel Badges 14 efforts of the Friends who, for the most part, are not Mrs Judi Broadhurst be able to rejoice in their Anglican heritage. The Friends of registered members of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady the Ordinariate undertake to do all they can to extend the The Administrator Please support the Friends of the Ordinariate of Walsingham; your support is very generous and I thank hand of friendship to those within the CoE who are seeking you for this with all my heart and ask that you will continue Friends of the Ordinariate an alternative during this turbulent period. How to Donate: 15 to support our work in bringing about Pope Benedict XVI’s 19 Spencelayh Close vision for the unity of the Church. Wellingborough Peter Sefton-Williams Within the Ordinariate we will also focus on particular Northamptonshire Chairman, Friends of the Ordinariate fundraising objectives, including the introduction of two NN8 4UU of Our Lady of Walsingham second collections in Ordinariate congregations, one around the feast of St. Augustine and the other near the feast of Our The prostration of the ten candidates of Lady of Walsingham. These will be for the Clergy Training the diaconate during the Litany of the THE PORTAL is a free on-line publication and is aimed at those Fund and the Clergy Relief Trust for the sick and retired. would appreciate it if you were to complete this form Saints at Spanish Place on 17th June 2017. in the Personal Ordinariates of the Catholic Church, Anglicans Even if you have already filled in a Gift Aid form, we We have also established a new fund: the Ordinariate again for our records. 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There was the disruption to schooling or the extra time and cost of getting Charity no. 1142667 Company no. 7680821 Editor: Richard Hawker http://www.portalmag.co.uk/ © Michael Hodges © Michael Design: GADS Limited Page 2 www.friendsoftheordinariate.org.uk www.friendsoftheordinariate.org.uk Page 3 Friends of the Ordinariate – 2018 Spring/Summer Friends of the Ordinariate – 2018 Spring/Summer Thoughts on the Diaconate: Our New Deacons Fr John Hunwicke offers some insight into the purpose of the Ten men were ordained to the diaconate at St James’s Spanish Place in May last year. We asked for some of them to tell us what it was that brought them to the diaconate in the church Catholic church What a splendid event an Leonard Cox Jonathan Creer ordination is! When God takes a “I have come home!” was my My journey to the Catholic Church man and marks his soul with the immediate thought after I was was in one sense only a short of Holy Order. Rather as character step, although it took me rather at a wedding, one feels that it is an ordained deacon in June. I dare a long time to make it. I was born essentially prosecco occasion. But … say many who have travelled into a mixed family - my father is what exactly is a deacon? from the CofE to the Catholic Church have experienced that Catholic and my mother is Anglican This is an extremely interesting sense of ‘homecoming’. However - although my father had lapsed question, not least because, by the time he married and had my reasons and theological in Western Christendom, children, so we were not brought convictions are underpinned the twentieth century saw a up as Catholic.