New mission congregation erected in Mt. Airy, Maryland

Seventeen people, formerly of Sacred Heart of Jesus Anglican Community in Mount Airy, MD, were received into the Ordinariate on Sunday. They now form a mission congregation of Christ the King in Towson Towson. Bishop Rozanski of the Archdiocese of Baltimore was present, along with Ordinariate priests Fr. Ed Meeks, Fr. Anthony Vidal, and Fr. Scott Hurd, who celebrated the Mass of Reception. Below is the beginning of the Confirmation rite with Fr. Anthony Vidal and Fr. Ed Meeks at Saint Michael's, Poplar Springs, MD. The Ordinariate expressed its gratitude for the kind hospitality of Fr. Mike Ruane, St. Michael's pastor.

from posts on Facebook by Fr. Hurd and the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter.

Anglican parish in Towson switches to Catholicism

Christ the King is the largest Anglican church in the U.S. to make the switch

By Jamie Smith Hopkins, The Baltimore Sun

Msgr Steenson anointing one of the members of Christ the King parish


The Rev. Edward Meeks and his flock attended to a "million and one details" last week in the run-up to a momentous day for their church. People to talk to. Flowers to arrange. Food to cook. And, of course, the new sign.

On Sunday, Christ the King Church — Anglican — became Christ the King Catholic Church.

The Towson congregation of about 140 is one of the first groups in the United States to join a new "ordinariate" established for those who want to be Catholic but hold on to Anglican traditions. The largest Anglican church in the country to do so, it follows in the footsteps of Mount Calvary Church in Baltimore and St. Luke's Parish in Bladensburg...

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Hat tip to the Personal Ordinariate's Facebook page

Reception Mass for Towson congregation of Christ the King

from the Facebook page of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter:

Mass to receive 120 parishioners at Christ the King in Towson, MD [earlier today] with Msgr. Steenson, Fr. Hurd & Fr. Ed Meeks, pastor. This is the 3rd Maryland parish & largest Anglican community to join the Ordinariate nationally.

Towson service will bring Christ the King Anglican parishioners into Catholic Church

Rector to be ordained Catholic at ceremony in Washington


Staff Reports
3:16 p.m. EDT, June 18, 2012

A Towson area church will make a faithful transition this weekend as its rector is ordained — and its congregation confirmed — into the Catholic Church.

Anglican priest Father Edward Meeks — of the Christ the King Anglican Parish in Towson — will be ordained a Catholic priest by Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington, on June 23, during a ceremony in Washington D.C.

The next day, Sunday, June 24, some 120 of Meek's parishioners are expected to be received into the Catholic Church during a Mass of Confirmation and Reception at Christ the King, located at 1102 Hart Road.

Meeks is part of the first ordination class in history for the new Catholic Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter.

Equivalent to a diocese, but national in scope, the U.S.-based ordinariate was created earlier this year by Pope Benedict XVI, specifically for Anglican groups and clergy seeking to become Catholic — while still retaining elements of their Anglican heritage...

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