News from The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland www.ordinariate.scot Summer 2017 Issue Ordinations in this▸ issue... to the Sacred Order of Deacon Ten men ordained for the Ordinariate EN MEN were ordained to ? Mary is the Tthe Sacred Order of Deacon ladder which on Saturday 17th June, as London brings Jesus into basked in temperatures up to 30°C, our midst to serve the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. Amongst them were Simon Beveridge and Cameron Macdonald who will serve the Ordinariate in Scotland. The Ordination Mass was a was taken by Bishop Robert Byrne, ? Father Stanley wonderful occasion in the spectacular Auxiliary Bishop for the Archdiocese Bennie setting of St James, Spanish Place, a of Birmingham, who had presided at large Gothic church in Marylebone, the Ordinariate Chrism Mass in Holy London, but actually located in Week in March. George Street. The church maintains its connection with Spanish Place, the The Ordination Mass road opposite the presbytery, because The Ordination Mass was celebrated of its historic connection with the according to the Ordinariate’s Spanish Embassy. distinctive traditional language liturgy, ? Lord Brian Gill Divine Worship: The Missal. ? 2017 Schoenstatt Pilgrimage and Many Ordinariate priests were Retreat present as concelebrants at the Mass and there was a full congregation in the church. The choir and organist were first class and really helped set a tone of reverence and majesty. The setting for the Ordination Mass was Collegium Regale by Herbert Howels (1892-1983), originally composed Bishop Robert Byrne for the Chapel and Choir of King’s ? Michael Thomson Unfortunately, due to health College, Cambridge. It was beautifully ? The Ordinariate: problems, Cardinal George Pell was sung by the choir and was perfect ‘fruit of Vatican II’ unable to travel to London from Rome for the superb acoustics of St James, ? Apology to conduct the Ordination. His place Spanish Place. News from The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland Page 2 There is one ‘secret occupation’ Cameron Macdonald that Simon is very proud of ... he was an amateur jockey! As he explained, “I trained as an amateur jockey at the British Racing School at Newmarket attending the Amateur National Hunt Course, together with riding out regularly for the Race Horse Trainer, Jimmy Frost, in Devon, enjoying my first full season racing Point to Point 2006-7 and achieved a winner at Wadebridge in Cornwall. Bishop Byrne lays hands on Cameron Macdonald During the Litany of the Saints all ten Cameron men lay prostrate, as Macdonald, who tradition demands, lives in Nairn, but in a long line up was ordained as the aisle of the church. an Episcopalian priest in 1990 Simon Beveridge and served as priest-in-charge of St Columba’s Episcopal Church in Nairn before becoming an Army chaplain in 1995. “That season culminated in me representing the Royal His first posting was in Suffolk Navy in The Grand Military with 3 and 4 Regiment Army Gold Cup at Sandown Park Air Corp and then in Croatia where I met a spectacular as part of the United Nations end by being run out into the Peace Keeping Force. Later rails by two loose horses when he was posted to Germany leading nine lengths clear of the with the Royal Green Jackets, Bishop Byrne lays hands rest of field! going on a Tour of Duty to on Simon Beveridge Bosnia. He later served with Simon Beveridge was “I continued to ride out with the 39 Engineers and in Cairo, ordained in the Church of other trainers and race Point to Gibraltar, America, Oman and England in 1987 and served in Point until 2010. I have since Canada. Devon before becoming a Royal retired from the racing saddle, Navy Chaplain in 1993 serving my last race being under rules at Ordinariate Scotland with the Commando Royal Stratford. I have firm intentions Deacons Simon and Cameron Marines and latterly as Regional to provide a home for a couple of will serve with Fr Len Black in Navy Chaplain (North), based retired race horses once our new caring for the growing number at Faslane on the Clyde. He now home, the Mill, is completed and of Ordinariate members in all lives in Whithorn in Galloway. the paddocks are ready.” parts of Scotland and will, we News from The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland Page 3 hope and pray, be ordained to the Sacred Priesthood in the not to distant future. Deacon Simon will be based in Whithorn in Galloway while Deacon Cameron, in Nairn, will work more closely with Fr Len in Inverness, Stirling and Edinburgh. In accordance with our Anglican Patrimony, and as they are transitional Deacons who, God willing, Fr Len Black, Deacon Cameron Macdonald, Mgr Keith Newton and will be ordained to the Sacred Deacon Simon Beveridge after the Ordination Mass Priesthood we will extend them the courtesy of addressing them Walsingham. another sign of God’s continued as “Father”. blessing and abundance where Blessing and abundance the faith is not compromised We wish them both well and As Fr Ed Tomlinson, the but celebrated with vigour and assure them of our continuing Ordinariate priest in Pembury, passion. Long may it continue!” prayers for a long and fruitful wrote in his blog, “Ten new ministry in the Catholic deacons is something worth All in all, it was indeed church through the Personal celebrating within a church a wonderful occasion in a Ordinariate of Our Lady of facing a crisis of vocations. And spectacular setting. Mary is the ladder which brings Jesus into our midst says Pope Francis N A video-message to the power as we pray to her, IBishop of Gozo in Malta, on Pope Francis reminded us the occasion of the inauguration how she is like ‘a ladder,’ who of three mosaics of the brings her Son in our midst. Sanctuary of the Virgin of Ta ‘Pinu, Pope Francis declared “I too often used the that “Mary is the ladder which Rosary in front of a mosaic: a lowers himself to walk with us brings Jesus into our midst”. small mosaic of Our Lady with men so that we can ascend into the Child, where Mary appears Heaven with Him.” Installed on the central port in the centre, while in reality, of the sanctuary and made by using her hands, she becomes a Power of Prayer the Aletti Centre, the mosaics kind of ladder through which In the Rosary prayer, he depict the Virgin and Child, St Jesus can descend in the midst reminded, we turn to the John the Baptist and St Paul. of us.” Virgin Mary to bring us closer to her Son Jesus, to know Him Speaking on prayer, and “The centre,” Pope Francis and to love Him more and particularly, the Virgin Mary’s said, “is always Jesus, who more. News from The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland Page 4 “And while we repeat ‘Hail us understand that our life is transfigure all that we live. Mary,’ we meditate on the united to that of Christ. This powerful prayer of the mysteries, the Joyful, Luminous, Holy Rosary serves us often Sorrowful and Glorious stages “In prayer, we are giving because it brings peace to of Christ’s life, but also of our everything to God: fatigue, hurt, hearts, to families, to the lives: for we walk with the Lord.” fears, but also joys, gifts, people Church, and to the world.” … all to God.” This simple prayer, he stressed, Pope Francis concluded, helps us to contemplate all that “By praying,” he continued, offering his blessing and God has done for us and for our “we allow God to enter into reminding those watching to salvation in his love, and makes our time, to accept and pray for him. Father Stanley Bennie N JANUARY Fr Stanley of St Columba, the Catholic IBennie went to visit his fraternal service organisation doctor in Stornoway for one founded in Glasgow in 1919 of his regular check-ups. They and with whom Fr Len and the had one look at him and an Ordinariate had received much ambulance was called to take support in the past. him to the Western Isles Hospital for tests. Almost immediately Fr Stanley had a visit from The outcome was that towards Brian Connell and James the end of March he was flown McCloy from the Knights of from Stornoway to the Glasgow St Columba who continued to Royal Infirmary to have further visit him throughout what was tests to diagnose his heart to become a long hospital stay. Fr Stanley Bennie problems. What he did not expect was that an overnight Fr Stanley was also sustained hospital theatre undergoing stay in Glasgow would lead to a with the Sacraments of major surgery at the hands stay of almost nine weeks! the Church by the hospital of his skilled surgeon and a chaplains at both hospitals, dedicated theatre team. He was transferred from the who offered much support and Glasgow Royal Infirmary to companionship. The result was that the surgery the Golden Jubilee National was a complete success and in Hospital in Clydebank for Despite the diagnosis and just 10 days he was back home further tests which showed the decision about what was to in Stornoway and continues that they needed to replace the be done having been made, Fr to make good progress, getting aortic valve, insert a stent in the Stanley had a long wait back at stronger day by day. aorta and a coronary bypass of the Glasgow Royal Infirmary two arteries.