The Anglican Use of the Roman Rite

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30272442407288470272012-02-01T18:01:35.005-08:00The Anglican Use of the Roman RiteSteve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.comBlogger6131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-65324282837372961472012-02-01T09:30:00.001-08:002012-02-01T09:32:18.569-08:00Fr. Steenson: Pastoral Letter, 31 January 2012

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,Greetings in the Name of the Lord! The Ordinariate is finally off and running, after much anticipation, work, and prayer. We have many exciting things that are happening, and we want you to be aware of them as we launch this new endeavor. We are going to try to use our website and our Facebook page as our vehicles to keep you informed of current news until our

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-64161292455379339442012-01-31T10:51:00.000-08:002012-01-31T10:57:58.159-08:00Resignation of Archbishop John Hepworth of TAC

Please keep all our brethren in the Traditional Anglican Communion, those seeking full communion via the Ordinariates and those who are not, in your prayers. As Fr. Jeffrey Steenson says, all of us who care about the Ordinariates owe an immense debt of gratitude to the TAC for its efforts which were a major element in the petitions that were responded to by His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI in

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-6725362149568561432012-01-28T03:22:00.000-08:002012-01-28T03:30:20.765-08:00Evensong at Mount Calvary Baltimore, Sunday, January 22, 2012

Here's the final video from last weekend's hat trick of Anglican Use Liturgies in Washington and Baltimore. Mount Calvary, which regularly celebrates Evensong & Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament at 4:30 on Sundays, hosted members of the St. Thomas More Society from Scranton, PA, as well as other well-wishers like myself on the Eve of the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C. Fr. Dwight

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-58037542670567745652012-01-27T17:26:00.000-08:002012-01-27T17:30:14.879-08:00The Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth experiences Christian Unity with the the Pastoral Provision and the Anglican Ordinariate

Our Shepherd SpeaksDear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,One of the blessings about the life of Faith here in the Diocese of Fort Worth, especially with an eye to the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, has been the lived experience of the Pastoral Provision and the recent announcement of the establishment of the "Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter" on January 2, 2012 at Our Lady of Walsingham

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-89035300477827749422012-01-27T11:08:00.000-08:002012-01-27T11:09:48.818-08:00All former Anglicans can join ordinariate, says bishop

An English bishop has confirmed that Anglicans who were received into the Catholic Church years ago can join the personal ordinariate created by Benedict XVI last year.The Pope established the world’s first personal ordinariate for groups of former Anglicans that wished to enter into full communion with Rome in January 2011. There was discussion at the time about whether Anglicans received before

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-53209935450203390402012-01-27T02:43:00.000-08:002012-01-27T02:49:08.958-08:00New questions, challenges confront Episcopal-turned-Catholic leader

By Nancy Frazier O'BrienCatholic News ServiceBALTIMORE (CNS) -- Father Jeffrey N. Steenson is finding that there are a lot of new roads to travel and new questions to resolve since his Jan. 1 appointment as head of the Houston-based Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter for former Anglicans who want to become Catholics.The former Episcopal bishop of the Rio Grande, who was ordained a

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-46983941745638638292012-01-27T02:35:00.000-08:002012-01-27T02:36:58.413-08:00Mass of Reception at Mount Calvary

On Sunday, January 22, 2012, Mount Calvary Church in Baltimore, Maryland, for more than 150 years the leading Anglo-Catholic Church in the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland, became a Catholic Church, the first received into the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter. The Rev. Dr. Jeffrey N. Steenson, Ordinary, celebrated the Mass at which 36 parishioners were received with anointing and the

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-32633459978916724462012-01-25T17:58:00.000-08:002012-01-25T18:00:06.957-08:00Homily of the Rev. Jeffrey Steenson at Mount Calvary

Newly appointed Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, Rev. Jeffrey N. Steenson, preaches at Mount Calvary Church, Baltimore, at the Mass in which 36 members of the parish were confirmed and received into full communion with the Catholic Church.

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-43466669301554513972012-01-25T08:51:00.000-08:002012-01-25T08:54:20.423-08:00New ordinariate and 1980 pastoral provision: An analysis

Jan. 23, 2012By Jerry FilteauWASHINGTON -- How are the new U.S. Catholic ordinariate for former Anglican groups and the 1980 U.S. pastoral provision for Episcopal (Anglican) priests who become Catholics different? What do they have in common? What does the presence of Catholics in the new ordinariate mean for other Catholics?The pastoral, canonical, ecclesiastical and other questions posed by the

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-38857078080352545432012-01-24T12:29:00.000-08:002012-01-24T12:31:54.110-08:00Video of Evensong at St. Anselm's Abbey, Washington, D.C.

As posted below, the St. Thomas of Canterbury Anglican Use Society held a festive Evensong on Saturday, January 21st, to celebrate the founding of the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter. Here is the full service.

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-59787222854891529332012-01-24T07:15:00.000-08:002012-01-24T07:34:28.889-08:00History is Made Again as U.S. Ordinariate Receives First Parish

By Randy Slypublished January 24, 2012Mount Calvary Episcopal Church has been waiting a long time to be received into the Roman Catholic Church. They have had to watch other parishes come in while remaining patiently in a holding pattern until property issues were worked out. 34 parishioners were received on Sunday. Their Rector, Jason Catania and Associates, David Reamsnyder, Anthony Vidal and

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-79387925080095353292012-01-23T05:49:00.000-08:002012-01-23T07:15:12.553-08:00A Historic Day at Mount Calvary-Baltimore

On Sunday, I had the privilege to visit Mt. Calvary Church in Baltimore, Maryland, as its clergy and people were received into the full communion of the Catholic Church by Fr. Jeffrey Steenson who heads the personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter. The congregation was joined by many others in a joy-filled day that many of the people characterized as a home-coming.Before the service began

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-35916285104445073982012-01-21T02:12:00.000-08:002012-01-21T16:44:44.322-08:00Washington, DC - Service of Thanksgiving for Ordinariate and Ordinary

The St. Thomas of Canterbury Anglican Use Society of Washington, DC and Northern Virginia celebrated a special service of Evensong in thanksgiving for the erection of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, and for the appointment of The Reverend Jeffrey N. Steenson as its first ordinary, this evening at St. Anselm's Abbey Church in Washington, DC. My son Patrick and I joined about 25

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-44605442370709786932012-01-20T09:41:00.000-08:002012-01-20T09:44:12.098-08:00Mount Calvary, Baltimore on Sunday, January 22, 2012

from the front page of the web site of Mount Calvary Church, Baltimore.

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-66008816823166583992012-01-20T03:43:00.000-08:002012-01-20T03:46:53.029-08:00Father Steenson: 'Leave All that Anger Behind'

Posted on: January 12, 2012If the Ordinariate in the United States is a Vatican effort to poach disgruntled Anglicans, Sunday-golfing ex-Anglicans or never-were Anglicans, its newly appointed leader has not received that memo.In fact, says the Rev. Jeffrey N. Steenson, Anglican does not appear in the new body’s formal name, the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, because members will

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-18846591359153185602012-01-19T10:04:00.001-08:002012-01-19T10:33:03.839-08:00Baltimore Episcopal parish, priests to be received into Catholic Church

By Catholic Review Staff Cardinal-designate Edwin F. O’Brien, apostolic administrator of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, announced Jan. 19 that Mount Calvary Church, a Baltimore parish of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland, will be received into full communion with the Roman Catholic Church through the newly created Anglican Ordinariate for the United States. Father Jason Catania, Mount Calvary’s

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-88294720269145497272012-01-17T18:47:00.000-08:002012-01-17T18:50:23.958-08:00Good news from Fr. Jeffrey Steenson for us Canadian-Ordinariate hopefuls

January 17, 2012 by Deborah GyapongFr. Jeffrey SteensonLast night, I received a most kind email from Fr. Jeffrey Steenson, the new Ordinary (to be installed in February) of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, reaching out to me after reading my “lament” about the state of play for Ordinariate-hopeful folks in the Traditional Anglican Communion (or what’s left of it), especially

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-71865308776433729812012-01-17T18:42:00.000-08:002012-01-17T18:45:42.810-08:00Interview with Fr. Dwight Longenecker on the Ordinariates

[Editor's Note: Fr. Longenecker will be in Baltimore on Sunday, January 22nd, preaching at Evensong on the Vigil for the D.C. March for Life at the church of Mount Calvary. Fr. Steenson, ordinary of the Ordinariate of The Chair of St. Peter, will preside.]GREENVILLE, SC (Catholic Online) - The global readership of Catholic Online is very familiar with Fr Dwight Longenecker. He is one of our

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-30004990124167433042012-01-16T09:05:00.001-08:002012-01-16T09:07:08.676-08:00Oxford University’s Latin Sermon

16 January 2012 by Fr. John ZuhlsdorfFr. John Hunwicke apparently received permission from Msgr. Newton of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham to preach Oxford University’s Latin Sermon from Newman’s pulpit.The text (I received along with it the paraphrase, which is not my rendering):Sunt autem, Oxonienses, et alii pro quibus Omnipotentem deprecari possimus. Mensis enim Ianuarii dies iam

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-9913234251423045252012-01-16T04:46:00.000-08:002012-01-16T04:49:04.794-08:00Bulletin of St. Mary's Catholic Church, Greenville, SC on the Ordinariate and Local Ties

Second Sunday of the Year15 January 2012Dear Friends in Christ,In November 2009, Pope Benedict XVI promulgated an Apostolic Constitution entitled Anglicanorum coeitbus, meaning “Groups of Anglicans”. This document was given by the pope in response to numerous requests he had received over the years from Anglicans for a pastoral structure to be created that would allow them to be received into

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-68455135761544142572012-01-16T04:42:00.000-08:002012-01-16T04:44:50.685-08:00Entering the Ordinariate

January 14, 2012Cardinal NewmanAs this is being read, I will have joined others in one of the first groups of US Anglicans being received into the nascent Personal Ordinariates of the Catholic Church.Why would anyone in his right mind want to leave a parish where he has invested over a third of a century, served in key leadership positions, and has many friends? Good golly, my parish has some of

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-53802169965452812042012-01-16T04:37:00.000-08:002012-01-16T04:39:20.161-08:00TORONTO ORDINARIATE SODALITY TO LAUNCH

FOUNDATION MEETINGFor Anglicans recently received into full communion and for those exploring full communion with the Catholic Church through the Anglican OrdinariateSUNDAY, JANUARY 29 THE NEWMAN CENTRE, TORONTO2:00 PM Evensong in St. Thomas Aquinas Chapel2:30 PM Meeting to approve a Charter for the foundation of THE SODALITY OF BLESSED JOHN HENRY NEWMANToronto, Ontariofrom: the Peregrinations

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-61650696761134559592012-01-16T04:35:00.000-08:002012-01-16T04:36:43.318-08:00The Ordinariate Rumour Mill

In the quiet that seems to fall in the interim period between the naming of the new U.S. ordinary for Anglicans and his consecration, there has arisen the customary worries and fears that have sadly become all to common to this process. I'm sure our Anglo Catholic brethren in England could attest to similar experiences, and our Anglo Catholic brethren in Australia should take note of this, as it

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-3131060212425462922012-01-16T04:17:00.000-08:002012-01-16T04:18:49.896-08:00The Octave of Epiphany & the Anglican Vocation to Worship

Today in the traditional Roman Rite, is the octave day of the Epiphany, when we celebrate the Baptism of Our Lord. People ask why our Lord needed to be baptized, as he was sinless. The reason, of course, provided by tradition, is not so that the water might make him clean, but so that he might make the water clean. He sanctified the water (and by extension all of creation) so that it might

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-18189145540013875662012-01-11T16:38:00.000-08:002012-01-11T16:41:23.497-08:00The long Anglican road to Rome

January 11, 2012By TERRY MATTINGLY - Scripps Howard News Service In the fall of 1979, a cluster of Episcopalians made another trip to Rome seeking a haven for Anglo-Catholic believers anxious to exit their increasingly divided church.Vatican officials agreed that it was time to petition their new leader, the young Pope John Paul II. The document was prepared and then signed on the altar of the

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-711281567663804192012-01-11T10:00:00.000-08:002012-01-11T10:03:43.124-08:00Episcopal Abandonment

January 11, 2012By Charlotte HaysI am sorry to say that I can’t share my friend Phil Terzian’s pleasure that a court in Virginia has ruled that the Episcopal Church can reclaim property from a so-called breakaway Anglican group.Phil says: “If people want to abandon the Episcopal Church, they are free to do so; but they cannot take historic Church property with them, or deprive Episcopalians of

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-80986672761996390722012-01-10T07:19:00.000-08:002012-01-10T07:25:29.387-08:00A towering figure in the Anglo-Catholic movement dies

January 9, 2012By Mary Ann MuellerRetired Fort Worth Bishop Clarence Pope died Saturday in LouisianaA towering leader in the current Anglo-Catholic movement has died. Former Fort Worth Bishop Clarence C. Pope succumbed to pneumonia in his sleep Saturday, Jan. 7.Bishop Pope was the long-time rector of St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Baton Rouge before being elected in 1984 as the bishop coadjutor

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-34478158026825172792012-01-09T17:07:00.000-08:002012-01-09T17:09:40.763-08:00Preserving Anglican Patrimony: Father Jeffrey Steenson to Head First U.S. Ordinariate

Monday, Jan 09, 2012by Charlotte Hays, Register correspondentHOUSTON — Father Jeffrey Steenson, who was named by Pope Benedict XVI on New Year’s Day as the first to lead the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, said that the new ordinariate for former Anglicans and Episcopalians must be true to both the Catholic Church and its Anglican patrimony.An obviously overjoyed Father Steenson,

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-5300147015323984202012-01-09T03:59:00.000-08:002012-01-09T04:01:41.408-08:00Retired Fort Worth Bishop Clarence Pope dead

JANUARY 8, 2012BY GEORGE CONGERThe second [Epsicopal] Bishop of Fort Worth, the Rt. Rev. Clarence C. Pope, Jr., has died. On 8 Jan 2012, the Diocese of Fort Worth announced that Bishop Pope (81) had “died in his sleep overnight” at a hospital in Baton Rouge where he was being treated for pneumonia.“His wife, Dr. Martha Pope, and members of their family were with him over the past week. Please

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-62887365645844035022012-01-07T04:15:00.000-08:002012-01-07T04:22:22.800-08:00Installation of New Ordinary Scheduled for Feb. 12

Reverend Jeffrey N. Steenson will be installed as Ordinary of the Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter on February 12, 2012, 3 p.m., at the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Houston. Details will be provided closer to the installation. (This installation was originally scheduled for February 19th; but with the Holy Father holding a consistory to invest new cardinals on the weekend of

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-4128782422540013872012-01-07T03:48:00.000-08:002012-01-07T04:51:23.924-08:00Fr. Catania of Mt Calvary, Baltimore on the Ordinariate

from the December newsletter Crux Fidelis of Mt. Calvary Church in Baltimore, MarylandDear Friends in Christ,As we begin our second Advent since Mount Calvary’s watershed decision to enter full communion with the See of Peter, I had hoped I might at last be able to report both an agreement on a final property settlement with the Diocese of Maryland, and the date of our reception into the Catholic

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-47847416504512243702012-01-04T11:12:00.000-08:002012-01-04T11:20:38.030-08:00Video of Fr. Steenson's Press Conference on Monday

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-42175168333230393562012-01-04T02:21:00.000-08:002012-01-04T02:23:33.292-08:00Epiphany Evensong in Virginia this Sunday, January 8

The St. Thomas of Canterbury Anglican Use SocietyofNorthern Virginiainvites you to attend a service ofEvensongaccording to the Anglican Use of the Roman RiteIn thanksgiving for :the erection of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter,and the appointments of The Rev. Jeffrey N. Steenson as its first ordinaryand The Rev. R. Scott Hurd of Washington, DC, as its first vicar general.Sunday,

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-81201429060352972992012-01-03T02:10:00.000-08:002012-01-03T07:12:19.902-08:00New American Ordinary Jeffrey Steenson formally introduced to the media News conference held at Our Lady of Walsingham

HOUSTON, TX: New American Ordinary Jeffrey Steenson formally introduced to the media News conference held at Our Lady of Walsingham -- the Ordinariate's new principal church in HoustonA VOL EXCLUSIVEBy Mary Ann Mueller in HoustonSpecial Correspondent www.virtueonline.org January 3, 2012The formal announcement naming former Episcopal Bishop Jeffrey Steenson as the founding Ordinary of the Chair of

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-4418477975527733072012-01-02T05:27:00.000-08:002012-01-02T05:37:54.376-08:00Official Decree of Erection of the Ordinariate

Decree of Erection ofthe Personal Ordinariate ofthe Chair of Saint PeterThe supreme law of the Church is the salvation of souls. As such, throughout its history, the Church has always found the pastoral and juridical means to care for the good of the faithful. With the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus, promulgated on 4 November 2009, the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, provided for

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-63612219735790539672012-01-02T04:00:00.001-08:002012-01-02T04:18:28.870-08:00Upon This "Rock," An Ordinariate Is Born

Cardinal DiNardo celebrating Mass at Our Lady of Walsingham Church during the 2009 Anglican Use Conference in Houston.Twenty-six months since Anglicanorum coetibus laid the groundwork for groups of Anglicans to cross the Tiber whilst maintaining elements of their liturgical, spiritual, theological and canonical patrimony, the top-shelf papal project has taken a sizable leap this New Year's

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-10899503076583228892012-01-01T12:30:00.000-08:002012-01-01T12:35:18.840-08:00U.S. Ordinariate has established its web site

The Ordinariate of The Chair of St. Peter has established its official web site at http://www.usordinariate.org/The site is already well developed, and includes an extensive FAQ page, which includes the following:General background on the United States ordinariateWhen was the United States ordinariate established?Pope Benedict XVI approved the creation of a U.S. ordinariate, the Personal

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-31459118562462015672012-01-01T05:20:00.000-08:002012-01-01T05:27:28.843-08:00ERECTION OF THE PERSONAL ORDINARIATE OF THE CHAIR OF SAINT PETER AND NAMING OF THE FIRST ORDINARY

Fr. Jeffrey Steenson preaching at the Solemn Mass during the 2010 Anglican Use Conference at the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark, New Jersey, June 2010.EREZIONE DELL’ORDINARIATO PERSONALE DI THE CHAIR OF SAINT PETER E NOMINA DEL PRIMO ORDINARIO La Congregazione per la Dottrina della Fede, a norma della Costituzione Apostolica Anglicanorum coetibus, ha eretto l’Ordinariato

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-81722454793686726942012-01-01T05:18:00.000-08:002012-01-01T06:20:36.895-08:00Habemus Ordinarium!

The day is finally here! When I first posted this I hadn't yet seen the story anywhere else, but it is beginning to appear all over the place. A news bulletin posted this morning on the website of the Holy See, the headline of which says something like this (please pardon my amateur Italian translation: "Erection of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter and Appointment of the First

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-9025424012348477482012-01-01T05:16:00.000-08:002012-01-01T05:59:53.782-08:00Anglican Ordinariate Established for North America

Wonderful news for all Christians in Canada and the USA January 1, 2012Fr Jeffrey Steenson, formerly Episcopal (Anglican) Bishop of the Diocese of Rio Grande (New Mexico and NW Texas), has been appointed as of January 1, 2012 Ordinary or chief pastor for the Anglican Ordinariate of The Chair of St. Peter. The Ordinariate is a body in full communion with the Holy See and so in communion with more

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-9221461574642836072012-01-01T05:14:00.000-08:002012-01-01T05:56:30.646-08:00Ordinary welcomes appointment of US counterpart

Monsignor Keith Newton has enthusiastically welcomed the appointment of the Reverend Dr Jeffrey Steenson as the first Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of The Chair of St Peter, erected today in the United States.On hearing the news of the appointment by Pope Benedict XVI, Mgr Newton said, 'Fr Steenson is a warm and compassionate priest with a wealth of experience, and I am delighted by his

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-52569066270794272142011-12-31T11:52:00.000-08:002011-12-31T11:55:59.950-08:00Seeds of the Ordinariate-Part Two: St Therese Parish, Kansas City, MO

WASHINGTON, DC (Catholic Online) - St. Therese Little Flower Parish is an amazing parish in the Blue Hills area of urban Kansas City, MO. Founded in 1925, the same year their patron saint was canonized, its stone edifice symbolized a sense of permanence in the neighborhood that has endured a great deal of change. When I lived in the KC area, I remember driving by this building many times,

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-39409441245205606482011-12-31T11:46:00.000-08:002011-12-31T11:48:54.249-08:00Receiving Anglicanism

by Rev. Dwight LongeneckerAltarpiece at the new church of Our Lady of Walsingham, Houston, TXVery soon the Anglican Ordinariate for the United States will be formally announced. As we prepare to receive our Anglican brothers and sisters in this historic step towards church unity, what will the Anglicans be receiving from their step of faith into full communion, and what will we be receiving from

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-78551249966104859952011-12-31T11:43:00.001-08:002011-12-31T11:44:29.110-08:00Big News For Converts From Anglicanism!

December 30, 2011By Father Ernie DavisThe January 1, 2012 erection of an official Ordinariate in North America for Catholics from Anglican backgrounds can be celebrated by all Catholics who love liturgy. When Pope Benedict XVI established the apostolic constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus, he boldly hoped that Anglicans entering the full communion of the Catholic Church would maintain some of

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-37550267903651912352011-12-31T11:32:00.000-08:002011-12-31T11:33:54.479-08:00Anglicans Received into the Catholic Church

December 31, 2011by Christopher MahonIn this Christmastide the good news keeps coming.This coming Sunday, the 1st of January, the Bishop of Hamilton will be receiving a group of Anglicans from the Kitchener-Waterloo area into the Catholic Church. The Mass within which they are to be received will be celebrated according to the Anglican Use at 2pm in the Cathedral of Christ the King in

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-32708016366487166132011-12-30T05:01:00.001-08:002011-12-30T05:01:57.333-08:00Doors open for Anglicans to join Catholic Church

December 29, 2011By LORRAINE THOMPSONNew Year’s Day ushers in a new era for Roman Catholics and members of the Anglican Church who will have the opportunity to enter into “corporate reunion” with the Holy See.An apostolic constitution, Anglicanorum coetibus, issued by Pope Benedict XVI, will lead to the creation of “personal ordinariates,” geographic regions similar to dioceses but typically

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-34383541774107378962011-12-30T04:26:00.001-08:002011-12-30T04:27:16.053-08:00Hundreds more Church of England defections expected

At least 20 clergy and several hundred of their parishioners are already lined up to join the Ordinariate, the new structure set up by the Pope a year ago that allows them to remain some of their Anglican heritage while entering into full communion with the Holy See.But many more members of the Anglo-Catholic wing of the Church of England are likely to defect following a critical meeting of its

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-35707210737093835862011-12-24T04:37:00.000-08:002011-12-24T06:33:46.567-08:00Bishop Robert Mercer to be received through the Ordinaraite

22 Dec 2011An update for all TAC clergy in the UKDear Brother,On December 8 while en route to Vienna, Archbishop Hepworth made a 24 hour stop over in England. He lunched with me in Worthing and then went on to celebrate the holy communion at St Agatha’s, Portsmouth, in the evening. In his sermon he reminded us that the BCP of 1662 remembers three conceptions, of the Lord, of the Lady, of the

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-26738767743831561002011-12-24T04:17:00.000-08:002011-12-24T04:21:48.100-08:00Novena to St. Thomas of Canterbury

In anticipation of the impending announcement on January 1 of the establishment of a personal ordinariate for the U.S., the St. Thomas of Canterbury Anglican Use Society of Washington, DC and Northern Virginia is inviting it's members and friends to pray a novena to St. Thomas, beginning on Friday, Dec. 23 and winding up on Saturday, Dec. 31. The Feast of St. Thomas (a.k.a., St. Thomas Becket)

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-39495353549355692642011-12-23T06:12:00.000-08:002011-12-23T06:14:34.036-08:00Former Episcopal Bishop Jeffrey Steenson to be named the first American Ordinary

Rome will formally announce appointment on New Year's DayA VOL EXCLUSIVEBy Mary Ann Mueller Special Correspondentwww.virtueonline.org December 22, 2011Former Episcopal Bishop of the Rio Grande, Jeffrey Steenson, is to be named the Ordinary when the Anglican Ordinariate is erected on January 1, 2012, sources tell VOL.Word seeped out from the Vatican late last week that Steenson -- who left The

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-57803634999665094112011-12-22T16:09:00.001-08:002011-12-22T16:23:17.673-08:00Please support the All Saints Sisters of the Poor

I received this letter today, along with a liturgical calendar with many wonderful photos, both historic and contemporary, from Mother Christina. I had ordered my Christmas cards from the Sisters this year, and remind you that they have cards for every occasion, not just Christmas. Please do visit their web site and support them.Office of the PrioressAll Saints Sisters of the PoorPO Box

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-48313983402631769072011-12-02T07:46:00.000-08:002011-12-02T07:47:35.568-08:00Important News from the ACCC

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Fr. Christopher PhillipsThis was sent to Fr. Phillips by Deborah Gyapong, a member of the Anglican Catholic Church of Canada, and a long-time friend of The Anglo-Catholic.On Sunday, our priests in the Anglican Catholic Church of Canada (ACCC) read out an ad clerum from our bishops, notifying us that Provincial / Diocesan Council met Nov. 26 and has found a creative

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-10421155271041818372011-11-25T18:15:00.000-08:002011-11-25T18:17:59.494-08:00Ordinariate Ordo Produced

25 Nov 2011 Advent 2011 begins the first new liturgical year of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. As work continues on the liturgical use of the Ordinariates, certain forms of service have been permitted ad interim. Amongst these are Morning and Evening Prayer as these have developed in the Anglican tradition...Read the whole post about the Ordo for the Ordinariate of Our Lady

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-41024763355042050132011-11-15T15:55:00.000-08:002011-11-15T15:59:25.730-08:00Report on the Implementation of the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus

November 15, 2011 by His Eminence Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington Thank you Archbishop Dolan. With me for this presentation are Bishop Robert McManus and Bishop Kevin Vann, the other members of the Conference’s ad hoc Committee on the Implementation of Anglicanorum coetibus. With us, as well, are Father Jeffrey Steenson and Father Scott Hurd, who have worked with the committee.

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-7848246771573728612011-11-15T15:50:00.000-08:002011-11-15T15:55:13.908-08:00New Ecclesiastical Delegate for Pastoral Provision; USA Ordinariate date announced.

by His Excellency, Kevin W. VannFor the Catholic Church in the United States, today marks an important movement towards greater diversity and at the same time a reaffirmation of the universality of what Jesus Christ established. On the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, which falls on Sunday January 1, 2012, a Personal Ordinariate for former Anglicans (Episcopalians) who wish to be fully initiated

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-28813016066283682512011-11-11T08:51:00.000-08:002011-11-11T08:55:18.348-08:00ECUMENISM IN THE CONTINUUM

This excerpt is from the middle of a long talk by Bishop Paul C. Hewett, SSC, of the Diocese of the Holy Cross, given at a festival of faith at St. Paul's Anglican Church in my hometown of Brockton, Massachusetts last week....What we have to offer the rest of the Body, in realigned, orthodox Anglicanism, has now been tested and refined by a wilderness generation that has wrestled long and hard

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-65977256213581731702011-11-11T08:28:00.000-08:002011-11-11T08:31:26.443-08:00‘Anglicanorum Coetibus and the Church of Our Lady of the Atonement…’

November 9, 2011by Duane Alexander Miller‘Anglicanorum Coetibus and the Church of Our Lady of the Atonement, the Founding Parish of Anglican Use in the Roman Catholic Church, Feast of St. David of Wales, 1 March 2011′ in Anglican and Episcopal History, Vol 80:3, September, pp 296-305.In this church review I go through the history of John Paul II’s Pastoral Provision, and the establishment of the

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-55845623753486454302011-11-11T08:15:00.000-08:002011-11-11T08:16:41.833-08:00Catholic Herald: The ordinariate cannot wait

This editorial appears in today’s Catholic HeraldThe Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham setup by Pope Benedict has entered crucial and rather worrying phase in its development. Small communities of former Anglican priests and people are attending their own Masses, but in circumstances that are far from ideal. The challenge of finding them places of worship, and accommodation for priests and

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-80724725095101432642011-11-11T08:02:00.000-08:002011-11-11T08:04:53.089-08:00Anglican Ordinariate developments

Things appear to be moving forward at last on the Australian Anglican Ordinariate front, with Adelaide Now reporting that some 31 Traditional Anglican Communion priests were "recently approved for ordination back into the Catholic Church after high-level meetings at the Vatican".I'm taking that to mean that their reception as Catholics and ordination as Catholic priests has been given approval -

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-79373861024577774272011-11-01T18:11:00.000-07:002011-11-01T18:13:39.134-07:00Archdiocese of Baltimore welcomes new order of nuns

All Saints' Sisters of the Poor left the Episcopal Church two years ago.By Mary Gail HareNovember 1, 2011The Archdiocese of Baltimore added a new religious order of nuns Tuesday, its first in decades and one that began as an Anglican community.The All Saints' Sisters of the Poor left the Episcopal Church for the Roman Catholic Church two years ago. By a decree from the Vatican, they are now an

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-87806282972887580422011-10-23T03:25:00.001-07:002011-10-23T03:28:36.699-07:00Mount Calvary Baltimore gets ready to enter Catholic Church

The Rev. Jason Catania writes in the October issue of Crux Fidelis:On several occasions, I have suggested that the day when we would begin our new life as a Catholic congregation was in sight, only for there to be another delay. And no doubt many of you share my frustration in seeing other groups board the Barque of Peter ahead of us. But I can assure you that at this point, every indication

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-1445005025799462602011-10-21T17:31:00.000-07:002011-10-21T17:33:59.748-07:00Healey Willan Society Established by Canons Regular of St. John Cantius

BY SHAWN TRIBENLM readers will know that I have mentioned before the great work of the composer Healey Willan, particularly within the context of the potential for English chant and polyphony. Accordingly, I was delighted to hear that the Canons Regular of St. John Cantius have established the Healey Willan Society "in consultation with Mrs. Mary Willan Mason [daughter of Healey Willan], for the

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-77700007218348990772011-10-15T03:19:00.000-07:002011-10-15T03:21:20.105-07:00Anglican Use Society of Savannah and the Low Country gather for their first Healing Service

“ Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven.” Matthew 18:19 “Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.” James 5:16 Members of The Anglican Use Society of Savannah and the Low Country together

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-52862089105611397682011-10-13T14:24:00.001-07:002011-10-13T14:26:34.147-07:00Dr. Phillip Crotty on Newman as Educator

Dr. Phillip Crotty, retired dean from Northeastern University and now associated with both Thomas More College in Merrimack, NH and Christendom College, Ft. Royal, VA, gave a talk on Newman as Educator at the October 9th Symposium on Newman at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston, MA.

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-46619334834287502072011-10-11T01:19:00.001-07:002011-10-11T01:22:20.378-07:00Evensong for the feast of Bd. JH Newman

The Anglican Use Congregation of St. Athanasius joined with the parish at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross on Sunday, October 9th to celebrate the feast of Blessed John Henry Newman with a symposium and choral evensong. The talks will appear here over the course of the week, but as a first view, here is the Evensong we celebrated.

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-38034511530015690392011-10-09T18:45:00.000-07:002011-10-23T03:21:05.345-07:00Episcopal parish in Bladensburg converts to Roman Catholic Church

(Bill O’Leary/WASHINGTON POST) - Archbishop of Washington Cardinal Donald Wuerl, left, greets Adaeze M. Okafor after formally receiving her and fellow church members into the Catholic church.The Rev. Mark Lewis awoke early on the last morning of his life as an Anglican priest and dressed in a suit and tie instead of his usual priestly regalia. That’s different, he thought, for the first of many

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-89582864965189327652011-10-05T19:04:00.001-07:002011-10-05T19:05:32.484-07:00Fr Christopher Phillips: BDW – a Catholic claim to Anglican patrimony

Fr Christopher Phillips, a Pastoral Provision priest in the United States, first delivered this paper at the recent International Symposium: “Council and Continuity” which took place in Phoenix, Arizona. It contains some of his own observations about the place of The Book of Divine Worship as a foundational document in any future Ordinariate liturgy. It was published on the Anglo-Catholic.The

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-13926023567070746932011-09-29T07:56:00.000-07:002011-09-29T09:31:44.273-07:00Anglicanorum "Unfolds Before Us": In Fort Worth, a US First

Two years since Anglicanorum coetibus, they say the day is coming soon -- the release of the CDF decree establishing a Stateside jurisdiction for groups of Anglicans entering full communion with Rome, bringing with them distinctive elements of their lifelong patrimony of faith.Yet even without the formal starting-gun, the groundbreaking B16 venture has already begun taking root on these shores,

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-34393320583607726752011-09-27T16:53:00.000-07:002011-09-27T17:02:46.098-07:00Fr. Bruce Noble retires

from the weekly bulletin of Our Lady of Walsingham Church, Houston, Texas.Congratulations to Father BruceNoble on his official retirement this Feast of Our Lady of Walsingham, September 24, from the Catholic Chaplain Corps after 25 years of service to this vital ministry! He and his beloved twin brother, Father David, gave a total of 50 years between the two of them working in the Texas Medical

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-82142130853290463802011-09-25T02:50:00.000-07:002011-09-25T02:51:44.179-07:00Organization meeting of San Francisco Bay Area Anglican Use Society

The organizational meeting of the San Francisco Bay Area Anglican Use Society will be held on Saturday, October 1, 2011, from 2:00 until 4:00 p.m. in the Cedar Room at the Main Branch of the San Mateo Public Library, 55 West 3rd Ave., San Mateo, CA, 94402. The group's first goal is to establish an Anglican Use society for the Bay Area, which will begin offering services from the Book of Divine

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-15841967544738670192011-09-19T05:11:00.000-07:002011-09-19T05:16:45.717-07:00Symposium and Evensong for Feast Day of Blessed John Henry Newman

The Anglican Use Congregation of St. Athanasius and the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston will be sponsoring a symposium on the feast of Blessed John Henry Newman on Sunday, October 9, 2011 at 3 p.m. at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross.The speakers for the symposium are:Dr. Peter Kreeft on Newman as poetDr. Philip Crotty on Newman as educatorDr. William Fahey on Newman as preacherFr. Peter M.

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-1994670044728490452011-09-17T04:01:00.000-07:002011-09-17T04:04:27.634-07:00Ft Worth, Texas Ordinariate Group to be received

Dear friends in Christ,On Sunday, September 25, at 2 in the afternoon, the first of our group of people (The Community of St. Peter the Rock) who will be members of the Anglican Ordinariate within the Catholic Church will be received and Confirmed by Bishop Kevin Vann at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Fort Worth. I know not all of you can be with us for this joyous occasion. Of your charity, I ask

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-47173191199508619122011-09-17T03:53:00.000-07:002011-09-17T04:01:20.035-07:00St Luke's Bladensburg, MD

St. Luke's will be received into the Roman Catholic Church at 9:30 am on October 9, 2011 in the Crypt Church at the Basilica of the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC; His Eminence Donald Cardinal Wuerl celebrating."St. Luke's Episcopal Church Bladensburg, MD has its own property and sanctuary.from The Anglo-Catholic.We are honored to announce Monsignor Keith Newton, the

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IMMIGRATION AND THE "NEXT AMERICA"by José Horacio Gómez[...] One of the problems we have today is that we have lost the sense of America’s national “story”. If our people know our history at all, what they know is incomplete. And when we don’t know the whole story, we end up with the wrong assumptions about American identity and culture.Our national storyThe American story that most of us know is

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-77317504703790565042011-09-11T05:01:00.000-07:002011-09-11T05:03:35.191-07:00Inquirer's Class to begin September 17th in D.C.

The St. Thomas of Canterbury Society of Washington, DC announces that it will begin an Inquirer's Class on September 17th at its location at St. Anselm's Abbey in Washington.There will be four sessions on the following dates: Saturday, September 17, 2011, 2:30 – 4:30 p.m., followed by Evening Prayer in the Abbey Church;Saturday, October 15, 2011, 2:30 – 4:30 p.m., followed by Evening Prayer in

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-33815927224492826662011-09-10T05:03:00.000-07:002011-09-10T05:15:38.552-07:00ANGLICAN ARCHBISHOP: ABUSE DROVE ME FROM CHURCH

MELBOURNE, Australia, SEPT. 9, 2011 (Zenit.org).- A decade of systemic sexual abuse at the hands of priests and an older seminarian was what drove Father John Hepworth to flee Australia and the Catholic priesthood in the 1970s, the leader of the Traditional Anglican Communion has revealed.Archbishop Hepworth, 67, is primate of the traditionalist communion of Churches that separated itself from

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-37950668270590921922011-09-09T08:51:00.000-07:002011-09-09T09:02:32.892-07:00Anglican Use Evensong on September 25 in Easton

The Anglican Use Congregation of St. Athanasiusandthe Anglican Parish of St. Paulwill host our annual service of Evensongin honor of Our Lady of Walsinghamon September 25th at 4 p.m.The service is in the Chapel of Mary on the campus of Stonehill College in Easton, Mass.A reception will follow the service.

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-20757448530957578262011-09-09T08:04:00.000-07:002011-09-09T08:06:04.620-07:00Anglican Use Evensong on September 11 in Savannah, GA

Join us for Evening Prayer, using the Book of Divine Worship, Rite Oneto mark the 10th Anniversary of September 11th, to reflect on the sacrifice of those who lost their lives and to contemplate Jesus Christ's call to love one another as He loves us. Sunday, September 11, 20112 PM St Teresa's Chapel Our Lady of Confidence Carmelite Monastery11 West Back Street, Savannah, GeorgiaBishop Lou Lindsey

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-86777483152485747852011-08-30T04:16:00.000-07:002011-08-30T04:45:00.872-07:00RIP: Msgr. James Sheehan

[Msgr. Sheehan was secretary for the Pastoral Provision, assisting Archbishop Meyers of Newark in overseeing the predecessor to Anglicanorum coetibus. Msgr. Sheehan is in the center of the front row of the photo above, with clergy of the Pastoral Provision, keynote speaker Bishop Arrieta and his predecessor, Msgr. William Stetson. Photo taken at the Anglican Use Conference in 2010 in Newark, NJ.

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-18329259625366189352011-08-19T06:37:00.001-07:002011-08-19T06:41:06.122-07:00Former Anglican Priests: What About the Families?

by CHARLOTTE HAYS 08/19/2011 With many married clergymen coming into the Church, logistical problems arise. When Father Ian Hellyer, a Catholic priest in England, figures his personal budget, he faces concerns that are unusual for a Catholic priest: He must consider the needs of his wife, Margaret, and their nine children. A former Anglican clergyman, Father Hellyer was ordained in June into a

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-84921423561721270052011-08-09T06:41:00.000-07:002011-08-09T06:44:25.438-07:00MARRIED PRIEST: An Episcopal clergyman makes the conversion to Catholicism

Published: (Monday, Aug 8, 2011 10:52AM) Midnight, Aug. 7 BY RANDI BJORNSTAD The Register-Guard Two things set Father Bryce McProud apart from most newly ordained Roman Catholic priests: He once tried out for the Metropolitan Opera and placed highly enough to consider it a career option. And he’s married. The opera part is easy to understand. About 40 years ago, about the same time he was

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-31148363292874596542011-08-09T04:29:00.000-07:002011-08-09T04:33:53.349-07:00Catholicism: What is an Anglican-use Parish or Community?

While I have been happy to report on news about the Anglican Use, the Ordinariates and associated happenings in the Church, one thing we have all no doubt noted is how almost all such stories are found in the religious press or on blogs whose focus is on Catholicism or the Ordinariates in particular. In a sense, we are talking to ourselves. So it is always a pleasure to run across an article in

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-80316990940396741012011-07-30T11:48:00.000-07:002011-07-30T12:55:23.412-07:00RIP: Fr. Conrad Kimbrough

During those three decades in Wisconsin, Father Kimbrough mastered the art of drawing back the veil between God and man through the celebration of the sacred liturgy, the preaching of the Gospel, and the guidance of the lost. Father Kimbrough was heir to the renovation of Anglicanism initiated by the 19th century Oxford Movement, led by the brilliant English scholar and Anglican priest Blessed

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-85163296749490911852011-07-28T08:14:00.000-07:002011-07-28T08:19:36.475-07:00The Anglican Use Society of Savannah

announces their upcoming monthly services.Please join us again for prayer, worship, and praise.The Third Sunday of Every Month3 P.M. Chaplet of Divine Mercy and the Rosary4 P.M. Evening Prayer and Benediction,Proclaiming the Good News in such a way that people are moved to profess faithand be baptized is a charge given to the Christian community from the Risen Christ Himself.Join us on August

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of Anglicanorum coetibus in Canada. Hat tip to Fr. Scott Hurd.

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07/05/2011by CHARLOTTE HAYS One of the first American parishes to respond to Pope’s offer will mark a special feast day this October.BLADENSBURG, Md. — “As we began to think about certain matters, our hearts began to melt, and we moved towards Rome,” said Father Mark Lewis, rector of a church that was formerly St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Bladensburg, Md.St. Luke’s has made headlines as the

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-35140443702025427012011-07-06T08:45:00.000-07:002011-07-06T08:48:28.263-07:00Evening Prayer at St. Anslem’s Abbey this Saturday, July 9

Dear Friends of the St. Thomas of Canterbury Society,First, a reminder of the scheduled service of Evening Prayer at St. Anslem’s Abbey this Saturday, July 9, at 4:45 p.m. Please join us if you can for the service and the coffee hour following.I will have to miss this one, as my husband and I will be attending the Anglican Use Society’s annually conference—in Arlington, TX this year. (We should

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-82283738587747049572011-07-01T04:10:00.000-07:002011-07-01T04:13:46.636-07:00Aidan Nichols on the liturgy of the Ordinariate in England

The Ordinariate Portal for July has the third section of an article by Fr. Aidan Nichols, O.P. on the Liturgy in the Ordinariates:Although Anglicanorum coetibus conceded that the Ordinariate’s members could make use of the Roman books, the emphasis of the text lay on the provision of ‘books proper to the Anglican tradition’, once these had received approval from the Holy See (thus Anglicanorum

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-60828932455091721702011-07-01T03:52:00.000-07:002011-07-01T03:55:13.249-07:002011 Anglican Use Conference to Be Live Streamed

June 30, 2011 by Fr. Christopher PhillipsThe 2011 Conference of the Anglican Use Society will be taking place on July 7th – 9th at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Arlington, Texas. The general theme of the conference will be “Our Patrimony,” and speakers will include Fr. David Jaeger, OFM, of the Antonianum Pontifical University in Rome; Msgr. Keith Newton, Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate

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On Sunday evening at Holy Spirit Catholic Church in Annandale, Virginia. I was present with 140 other attendees for Solemn Evensong and Rite of Benediction (for the Solemnity of Corpus Christi), sponsored by the St. Thomas of Canterbury Anglican Use Society of Washington, DC and Northern Virginia (STCS).There have always been Anglicans "on the journey" to the Catholic Church and many have come

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-34121511336468550692011-06-24T10:59:00.000-07:002011-06-24T11:06:11.310-07:00Former Anglican open, joyful as he prepares for ordination

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien (left) shares a moment with Deacon Warren Tanghe after ordaining him as a transitional deacon Feb. 26. The archbishop will ordain Deacon Tanghe, a former Anglican priest, to the Catholic priesthood June 24. (Courtesy Kitt O’Brien)By Jennifer Williamsjwilliams@CatholicReview.orgTransitional Deacon Warren Tanghe’s path to the Catholic priesthood may have been long and

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Father Bill Foote, the mentor priest for Ontario parishes interested in joining the Ordinariate, visited the Ottawa Cathedral of the Annunciation this evening. The meeting began with Evensong.After Bishop Carl Reid introduced Fr. Foote downstairs in the parish hall, he won us over by saying, “”I hope you appreciated that in good Anglican style, I sat in the back.”He spoke of his journey from

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-75984308962825100252011-06-17T04:49:00.000-07:002011-06-17T04:56:31.721-07:00First service of The Anglican Use Society of Savannah

The first service of The Anglican Use Society of Savannah will be on Sunday, June 19th.The service will be Evening Prayer, using the Book of Divine Worship, and will be held in the chapel of Our Lady of Confidence Carmelite Monastery at 4:00 p.m.The Monastery's address is 11 West Back Street, Savannah, GA, 31419, which is off of Coffee Bluff Road. The Monastery's website is http://

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June 6, 2011by Deacon Greg KandraThat’s the happy headline from the website for St. Luke’s Episcopal Parish in Bladensburg, Maryland (not far from where I grew up, actually).The website notes:It is with great joy St. Luke’s announces its intention to join the Personal Ordinariate of the Roman Catholic Church. We have been discerning the leading of the Holy Spirit since the Holy Father’s

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-48873094042660713052011-06-03T13:27:00.001-07:002011-06-03T13:27:26.273-07:00A Important Letter, and Follow-up Note, from the Rev. Mr. Jürgen Liias

April 21, 2011Dear Friends,On Saturday, April 3, we concluded our most recent series. The question we were addressing:IS GOD RAISING UP AN ANGLICAN USE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH AT CTR TO BE PART OF THE NEW ANGLICAN ORDINARIATE THAT POPE BENEDICT HAS ESTABLISHED?We explored the questions: What is an Anglican use Catholic church? And what is the Ordinariate? We were instructed by Dr. Tal Howard on the

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-61979555368197276332011-06-03T13:18:00.001-07:002011-06-03T13:19:49.477-07:00A New Bridge across the Tiber

by Rev. Dwight LongeneckerThe Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham has now been established in England. By Easter this year, three bishops, sixty priests, and nearly one thousand lay people had left the Church of England to be received into the Catholic Church. Archbishop Donald Wuerl is working with interested parties to establish the ordinariate in the United States, and progress is

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-77742404534269616562011-05-27T08:27:00.000-07:002011-05-27T08:29:59.533-07:00AU Mass Celebrating First Anniversary of the St. Thomas of Canterbury Society

The Ordinariate-bound group here in the Washington area, the St. Thomas of Canterbury Anglican Use Society (STCS), began on June 12, 2010 with a meeting in a local library attended by a grand total of five people. The purpose was simply to gauge interest in forming a local "Group of Anglicans" to accept the Holy Father's offer to Anglicans set forth in Anglicanorum coetibus. Attendance doubled

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New Location in Virgina!We have an exciting announcement regarding our ongoing efforts to begin holding services in Virginia: The pastor of Holy Spirit Catholic Church in Annandale, VA has granted us permission to hold services there, and we plan to begin doing so as soon as possible. We will continue to hold services in DC as well. This is something we have been working and praying for over many

Steve Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3027244240728847027.post-58742515440110617972011-05-23T18:18:00.001-07:002011-05-23T18:19:09.908-07:00Tablet: Ordinariate liturgy will have Anglican flavour

20 05 2011From the Tablet website:The special Missal and prayer books to be used by the personal ordinariate of England and Wales have been completed and are now awaiting approval from Rome. Former Anglican worshippers in the ordinariate can expect “something quite different” from their new sacramentary, Mgr Keith Newton, the group’s leader told The Tablet. He had hoped the new liturgy would be

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So, that's another CDF nugget soon to drop. The last of the trio, meanwhile, is no sleeper when it comes to making waves both in ecclesial and news circles, especially on these shores: the decree establishing an ordinariate for Catholics from the Anglican tradition in the United States.Of course, the unique structure was provided for in Anglicanorum coetibus, B16's groundbreaking 2009 initiative

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