Ordinariate Vicar General to speak in Boston area on his new book

Fr. Scott Hurd will visit Massachusetts in late September to talk about his new book. The schedule of events so far is:

Date	Time	City	Location	Description
Sep 23, 2013	7:00 PM	Boston, Massachusetts	Saint Clement Eucharistic Shrine	Fr. Hurd speaks on his new book When Faith Feels Fragile to the Saint Clement's Young Adult Group.
Sep 24, 2013	10:00 AM	WATERTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS	CatholicTV	Fr. Hurd will be a guest in CatholicTV's "This is the Day" program at 10 AM EST.
Sep 24, 2013	7:00 PM	Fall River, Massachusetts	Saint Bernadette Catholic Church	Fr. Hurd speaks on his new book When Faith Feels Fragile and signs books afterwards.
Sep 24, 2013	7:30 PM	WATERTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS	CatholicTV	A rebroadcast of the Tuesday morning interview on "This is the Day"

Benedict’s legacy: here come more Episcopalians

February 20, 2013 

By Deacon Greg Kandra

Following several months of prayerful discernment, the majority of members of St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church in Catonsville, Maryland, have decided to enter the Catholic Church as part of the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter.
Two other churches in the Baltimore area, Christ the King Anglican in Towson, and Mount Calvary Episcopal in Baltimore, became Catholic through the Ordinariate in 2012.
Members voted on Feb. 10 whether to leave The Episcopal Church and whether to enter the Ordinariate. Eighty of 100 parishioners were present; 55 were voting members. Of the voting members, six people abstained; 83 percent elected to leave The Episcopal Church and 76 percent to enter the Ordinariate. The vote was held in the presence of the Rev. Scott Slater, canon to the ordinary for the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland, and Rev. Scott Hurd, vicar general for the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter...

Read the rest on Deacon Kandra's blog The Deacon's Bench.

Members of St. Edmund of Canterbury in Fredericksburg, VA received into full communion

Fr. Scott Hurd reports about yesterday's reception on Facebook:

Five wonderful people from the former Saint Edmund of Canterbury Anglican mission in Fredericksburg, VA, were confirmed or received into the Ordinariate at St. Luke's, Bladensburg.

The St. Edmund's web site is not working this morning, perhaps in the middle of an update. I'll share any information I receive on this as it comes in.

Former Mount Airy Anglican congregation joins Catholic Church

By Maria Wiering
mwiering@CatholicReview.org

MOUNT AIRY – A third local community of former Anglicans joined the Roman Catholic Church Sept. 23 through the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, established in January by Pope Benedict XVI.

Seventeen members of Sacred Heart of Jesus in Mount Airy were welcomed into the church at St. Michael Catholic Church, Poplar Springs.

Father R. Scott Hurd, the ordinariate’s vicar general and a priest of the Archdiocese of Washington, received the congregation’s members into the church on behalf of Father Jeffrey N. Steenson, who leads the ordinariate but was unable to attend. Baltimore auxiliary Bishop Mitchell T. Rozanski presided over the Mass, which was concelebrated by local priests of the ordinariate.

Sacred Heart drew members from across western Maryland. Since July 2011, it has been renting the historic St. Michael church – a petite, white clapboard building across the road from the main church – for its Sunday liturgies.

This forged a relationship between the two communities, whose members shared social and educational activities, and now can share Mass...

Read the rest at The Catholic Review

Hat tip to Fr. Scott Hurd on Facebook.

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.

Reception of Jürgen Liias into Full Communion

Fr. David Barnes, pastor of St. Mary's and administrator of St. Margaret parishes in Beverly, Massachusetts, posted this week about the reception of former Episcopal/Anglican priest Jürgen Liias into full communion.

There's a pretty good chance that I am the most blessed(not bless-ed) priest in the world. I am given the privilege of being part of some extraordinary things.

This evening, at one of my two parishes (St. Margaret in Beverly Farms), I had the privilege of concelebrating Mass on the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In the context of that Mass--offered by Fr. Scott Hurd, Vicar General of the Anglican Ordinariate in the United States and a priest of the Archdiocese of Washington, DC--my friend and brother in the Faith, Jurgen Liias was received into the Catholic Church and Confirmed. The Mass was attended by Anglicans who have been the beneficiaries of Jurgen's Anglican ministry and by Catholics from all over who packed the church in joyful celebration of Jurgen's reception into the Catholic Church...

Please do read the entire post, an uplifting and encouraging message.

Hat tip to Fr. Stephen Smuts for reposting this.

I was fortunate enough to be able to attend this Mass on Mary-Day with several other members of the Anglican Use congregation of St. Athanasius in Brookline, and recorded the Mass. You are welcome to view the video on YouTube. This was an Ordinary Form Mass, as it was the Holy Day Mass for the parish, but the music was thoroughly Anglican.

Upon 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 morning, with as the establishment of the venture's Stateside jurisdiction by the Holy See.

In an unprecedented Sunday announcement -- a significant sign of Rome's degree of seriousness about the effort -- the Vatican's press bulletin gave official word of the erection of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter, encompassing the territory of the United States. The national quasi-diocese for the entering groups is the second of its kind, following England's Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, which was launched a year ago this month...

Read the rest of Rocco Palma's very complete report at Whispers in the Loggia.


Cornerstone of Our Lady of Walsingham Church
in Houston, TX