St. Luke's Ordinariate Community to Offer Advent Lessons and Carols on December 7th

The Washington, DC Ordinariate community of St. Luke's, which calls Immaculate Conception Church its home in the city, will hold a service of Advent Lessons & Carols on December 7th at 7:30 pm. Music will include Gregorian Chant, Palestrina, Poulenc, Rachmaninoff, and more. Vist tinyurl.com/pg7uz8z for more information.

St. Luke’s Bladensburg, Former Episcopal Church, Now Catholic, Moving to Nation’s Capital

Renamed, St. Luke’s at Immaculate Conception, was first Episcopal parish to join U.S. Ordinariate; Masses begin September 7th

Washington, DC (PRWEB) September 03, 2014

St. Luke’s Bladensburg, the Episcopal congregation that made headlines in 2011 as the first U.S. parish to join the Roman Catholic Church under a new, expedited process, is moving to Washington, DC on September, 7, 2014. Their new home is Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, 1315 8th St, NW, in the diverse Shaw neighborhood two blocks from the Walter Washington DC Convention Center. The congregation will now be known as, Saint Luke’s at Immaculate Conception.

The move accommodates its present parishioners from DC, Maryland, and Northern Virginia in a more centralized location, and hopes to attract new members who can now easily reach St. Luke’s by Metrobus and Metrorail Green and Yellow lines at the Mt. Vernon Sq. 7th St/Convention Center.

For its inaugural Mass at Immaculate Conception (8:30 am on Sunday, Sept. 7), St Luke’s is honored to host Monsignor Jeffrey N. Steenson, as celebrant and preacher...

Read the full press release and see video at PR Web.

New Ordinariate Chant Schola in DC

As the Saint Luke ordinariate community moves to downtown Washington DC next month, a new initiative is beginning, to build on an existing tradition of Sacred Music. Named in honour of Saint Benedict and the Benedictine tradition of Gregorian chant, and with a nod of gratitude to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI (who founded the ordinariates), the women of The Saint Benet Schola will provide the chant at the 8.30am Sunday Mass at Immaculate Conception, 8th Street NW. The group will draw on the Anglican plainsong tradition, whilst at the same time emphasizing the universal, Catholic nature of our worship, by singing the ancient chants and texts of the Sacred Liturgy.

More details here: www.stlukesordinariate.com

Hat tip to Charles Cole at The New Liturgical Movement.

Announcement from Saint Lukes Church, Bladensburg

My dear brothers and sisters--

Soon after Anglicanorum Coetibus was promulgated in 2009, many of us gathered rejoicing and worked for a day when there would be a parish for the Ordinariate here in the nation's capital.  When St. Luke's [Bladensburg] became the first Episcopal Church in America to enter the Catholic Church through Pope Benedicts XVI’s Apostolic Constitution, the decision was made that it would form the basis of that presence here in the DC metro area. Now, St. Luke's is planting its roots in the city. As of September 7th of this year, Sunday Masses using the Divine Worship Liturgy will be offered by St. Luke's at Immaculate Conception; Mass will be at 8:30 am with coffee hour to follow at 10 am in the school auditorium.

For those of you unacquainted with the beautiful Immaculate Conception Church, it is located at the corner of 8th and N Streets NW. Built in the 1870s, this Gothic Revival brick building contains an historic 19th century organ, a high Gothic altar of Italian marble, and Stations of the Cross painted by Franz Kaspar Huibrecht Vinck, a famous late 19th Century Belgian artist. Photos of the interior may be viewed at http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=Immaculate+Conception+Church%2C+Washington%2C+DC&ei=utf-8.

To begin our life together as a DC parish, an Ordinariate Day is planned for June 28th at 10 am at Immaculate Conception Church. We will begin with Mass, followed by a tour of the church, and discussion and fellowship. I urge you all to join us that morning and on each Sunday morning beginning this fall as we seek to build a community that will bear fruit for the Kingdom in our capital city. Please feel free to contact me with questions or concerns. We look forward to laboring with you all as we build a new urban parish for the Ordinariate in service of our Lord.

Washington, DC area events

From the Heide Seward, secretary at St. John Fisher Ordinariate community of Northern Virginia comes notice of two special events in the DC area, including one this weekend:

Looking for a way to celebrate St. Patrick's Day?  This Sunday, March 16 (the Eve of St. Patrick's) at 6:00pm, the Institute for Catholic Culture will host a presentation by Fr. Randolph Sly, "St. Patrick: Apostle to Ireland" at St. James Catholic Church in Falls Church.  See the ICC website for directions and further information: http://www.instituteofcatholicculture.org/st-patrick-apostle-to-ireland/

The annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast will take place on Tuesday, May 13 at the Washington Hilton.  If anyone is interested in putting together an Ordinariate table again, please let me know, and I will tell you where to send the check.  Individual tickets are $75 ($750 for a table of 10).  Keynote speaker this year is Cardinal Sean O'Malley.  Robert George will also be a featured speaker.  See the NCPB website for more details: http://www.catholicprayerbreakfast.com/

St. Luke's Bladensburg and the Anglican Use in the nation's capital

Father Scott Hurd wrote on Facebook last Sunday (September 9th):

Great meeting last night at which the future of Saint Luke's (in Bladensburg, for now) was unveiled. It was great to be with my friends and colleagues Fr. Mark Lewis and Fr. Rick Kramer, the communications directors for both the North American and UK ordinariates; Susan Gibbs and Fr. James Bradley.

The shape of that future was not mentioned in Fr. Hurd's post, and the web sites of the Ordinariate and St. Luke's are not updated yet with info. However, I have heard from a friend that the future that is contemplated is that there will be a unified parish at St. Luke's in Bladensburg for all Anglican Use Catholics in the area. While St. Luke's will sponsor regular Anglican Use masses at Our Lady of Hope Parish in Potomac Falls, VA, there is no provision for services to continue at the Benedictine Abbey of St. Anselm's, which has been hosting the Anglican Use Society of St. Thomas of Canterbury for nearly two years now.

The current plan includes moving St. Luke's from its current site in two years after the lease period is up. A search for a new site has yet to be found, possibly in the northeast quadrant of DC. At the same time, the Archdiocese apparently would like St. Luke's to consider moving to a place where Catholics are underserved by parishes now, which, for all practical purposes, could amount to the same thing. There is also talk of a capital campaign to purchase and build the new place, wherever it is to be located. However, that plan has not yet been put into place.

My correspondent assures me that some of the members of St. Luke's, of the St. Thomas Society and the St. Gregory Society (the branch in Northern Virginia) were consulted ahead of this announcement, but the correspondent was uncertain as to whether they had any real input into the actual formation of the plan. It will be the case, as announced earlier, that there will be regular Masses in Northern Virginia at Our Lady of Hope church in Potomac Falls.

Two concerns are raised by the announcements at this meeting.

First, one of the great things about the group that had been meeting at St. Anselm's was that they were regularly meeting for Evensong. It cannot be stressed enough that Evensong is one of the true jewels of the Anglican Patrimony. It should be a goal of every parish to offer it regularly. It is a service that is at once rooted in the earliest liturgies of the Church, that shows forth the beauty of holiness in liturgical worship and yet is a fully evangelical service: the perfect vehicle, as it were, to reach out to other Christians and the unchurched. Of course, as we have all been taught, the Mass is the summit of Christian prayer; but St. Paul didn't enter a town, celebrate the Divine Liturgy and invite folks in: he went to the synagogue for its regular servcie of psalms and lessons and preached the Gospel there, where anyone, Jew or Gentile, might hear (as the daily lesson from Acts in the Daily Office earlier this week reminded us).

John Wesley, in his The Sunday Service of the Methodists in North America declared:

There is no LITURGY in the World, either in ancient or modern language, which breathes more of a solid, scriptural, rational Piety, than the COMMON PRAYER of the CHURCH of ENGLAND.

As quoted on page 5 in American Methodist Worship by Karen B. Westerfield Tucker.

This endorsement of the value of the Prayer Book liturgy, and especially the daily offices, are echoed by scholars and liturgists down to our day. Fr. Louis Bouyer, of the Oratory wrote in his great book Liturgical Piety:

We must admit frankly that the Offices of Morning Prayer and of Evensong, as they are performed even today in St. Paul's, Westminster Abbey, York Minster, or Canterbury Cathedral, are not only one of the most impressive, but also one of the purest forms of Christian common prayer to be found anywhere in the world.

and more recently, in an article by Ed Franklin in The Walsingham Way, (published by the principal church of the US Ordinariate, Our Lady of Walsingham in Houston), Eamon Duffy is quoted as writing:

Anglican Choral Evensong is to my mind the greatest liturgical achievement of the Reformation, a perfect blend of noble prayer in memorable language, interspersed with the reading of two extended passages of scripture, all set to glorious music.

Secondly, one of the issues that many of the Anglican Use parishes face, whether Ordinariate or Pastoral Provision, and which they share with many parishes of Eastern Catholic Churches, is the great distance that parishioners must travel in order to attend worship at the parish church. In Boston, we are well acquainted with this: I travel almost 45 minutes from the south to the church, while my fellow schola member Allen travels almost 45 minuters from the north. It means that, except for Sunday and occasional Holy Days, there is no contact with the church. Many of the parishioners cannot reasonably come even every week because of the distance. But what if there were a way to have regular worship closer to home? It would certainly be feasible to have one or two additional sites (preferably a church or oratory, but even a home or other setting) for midweek worship and fellowship.

My DC correspondent wrote that a suggestion was made during the meeting by one of the clergymen that there might be faith formation offered during the week for people in DC, i.e., the people from the St. Thomas of Canterbury Society, since St. Luke's will be offering similar catechesis on Wednesdays in Bladensburg. In theory, there could be an informal evening prayer or compline service during these sessions, but the prayer component was not discussed at that time. I hope it will be.

In the D.C. area up until this time, there was an opportunity for worship close to home at St. Anselm's, where I was fortunate enough to visit back in January of this year. And as that community grew, it recognized this need for worship opportunity close to home, and started the associated Society of St. Gregory the Great for Northern Virginia residents. It would be a shame if this attempt to meet the needs of parishioners was discontinuted, particularly for a parish as richly blessed with clergy as St. Luke's is, which counts among its clergy Fr. Lewis, Fr. Kramer, and Fr. Sly.

CUA is blessed with a number of chapels (the one in Caldwell Hall is particularly beautiful) and is surrounded by religious houses like St. Anselm's (including the wonderful Dominican Study House. located right across Michigan Ave from the center of CUA's campus). Why not regular services on campus and introduce the Ordinariate and the Anglican Use liturgy to a cadre of students who would then bring the memory and hopefully the practice of those treasures of Anglican patrimony out to the world as they graduate?

First Anglican Use Mass of Fr. Richard Kramer in DC

The St. Thomas of Canterbury Ordinariate Community of Washington, DC
invites you, your family and friends
to join them
for the first Anglican Use Mass
celebrated by Father Richard Kramer
on Sunday, July 8th at 10:30 a.m.
St. Anselm's Abbey Church
4501 S. Dakota Ave., NE
Washington, DC.
Fr. Randy Sly will concelebrate with Fr. Kramer.
Afterwards there will be lemonade on the lawn, weather permitting.

Homily by Cardinal Wuerl at Ordination Mass of June 23, 2012

The Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter has posted the homily given by Archbishop Donald Cardinal Wuerl at the Saturday ordination of Frs. Mark Lewis, Ed Meeks and Rick Kramer. Of note in the Cardinal's homily is the following:

Reunion between Anglicans and Roman Catholics has been the goal of ecumenical dialogues which were inaugurated in 1966 by Pope Paul VI and Archbishop of Canterbury Michael Ramsey. Today we see the first fruits of these efforts with this ordination.

I would like to share with you this morning these few thoughts on what is happening — the ordination to the priesthood of these three men; why it is happening — why we have the sacrament of orders and the ministerial priesthood, and where the priesthood will be lived today – the context of our ordination, this new moment in the life of the Church...

Today our celebration is a visible sign of the communion of faith spread throughout the whole world and how it is anchored in Rome, where Peter lives now, bearing the name Benedict XVI.

But there is a wider cultural context for your ministry today. You are priests of the New Evangelization. All around you are those for whom the Gospel has lost its savor. Your ministry will be to those who were too often taught that their Catholic faith and its life-giving message is an option. To them you are sent today. As Jesus commissions you: “You will be my witnesses.”

You are the priests who will re-propose Christ as the answer to a world staggering under the weight of so many unanswered questions of the heart. There is even more in answer to the question, “Where do you exercise your ministry?” We are called to be priests in the circumstances of our day with all of its challenges.

In his January 19, 2012 talk to the bishops of Region IV, our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, spoke of another challenge – one connected with and flowing out of the need for a New Evangelization – the call to defend religious freedom.

In that talk I was privileged to hear in person and which I gave to each priest, deacon and seminarian at the Chrism Mass, our Holy Father taught us:

“Of particular concern are certain attempts being made to limit that most cherished of American freedoms, the freedom of religion...the seriousness of these threats needs to be clearly appreciated at every level of ecclesial life.”

You are being ordained for a Church whose roots go centuries back into the past, whose ministry is exercised in the present and who continually looks forward to the future and the realization of the kingdom. Neither nostalgia for past moments, nor anticipation of future glory should distract us from the reality of the now.
Accept for yourself Saint Paul’s advice to Timothy whom he ordained and sent to serve, “Do not neglect the gift you have, which was conferred on you through the prophetic word and with the imposition of hands...” Always rejoice in the gift of grace you have just received and let your gladness and joy be apparent and generous.

Read the whole homily at the site of the US Ordinariate.

DC Ordinations for the Ordinariate

Monsignor Steenson is shown with three newly ordained priests for the Ordinariate in the D.C. area along with "veterans" from Baltimore ordained earlier in June.

From left to right: Rev. Rick Kramer, Rev. Anthony Vidal, Rev. Ed Meeks, Msgr. Steenson, Rev. Jason Catania, Rev Mark Lewis.

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

5 New Ordinariate Clergy for Washington, D.C. Area

On Saturday, June 2, 2012 five deacons were ordained for the Ordinariate by Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington. The ordination was celebrated in the Crypt Chapel of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Pictured from left to right are: Deacons Richard Kramer, David Reamsnyder, Mark Lewis, Anthony Vidal, and Randolph Sly.

Photo and report from the Ordinariate on Facebook.

Video 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.

Washington, 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 other worshippers to fill the pews of the abbey church, and we all joined in with gusto on the processional hymn "Songs of Thankfulness and Praise".



The organist and choir of 3 men and 4 women expertly rendered the invitatory psalm 150 by Charles Villiers Stanford, followed by Psalm 42 in a double chant in A flat major and Psalm 43 in E flat major by the same composer. The Gospel Canticles, Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in C, Op. 115 by Stanford, were also such that one of the monks while walking the cloisters, wistfully commented about the music he heard during the choir's afternoon rehearsal, "We used to sing like that here; it is truly beautiful."

After a short homily by Father Paul Sullins, the choir sang Stanford's "Te Deum in B flat, Op. 10" in thanksgiving for the erection of the Ordinariate and the appointment of its first ordinary, Rev. Jeffrey N. Steenson.

At the end of the service, the choir and assembly joined in a rousing rendition of "As with Gladness, Men of Old" during the sanctuary party's recession. Afterwards, we gathered for a reception in one of the monastery parlors, where there was great joy and where I had the opportunity to meet with many of the wonderful people who are part of the S. Thomas of Canterbury AUS.

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For more information about the St. Thomas of Canterbury Anglican Use Society, contact James Farr via e-mail at codeblueiii@yahoo.com, or visit the Society's website at www.stthomascanterbury.org.

Entering the Ordinariate

January 14, 2012

Cardinal Newman

As 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 the best clergy, liturgy, outreach ethic and sacramental and pastoral care and some of the nicest people in Christendom, and it adheres to Catholic faith and practice while respecting that each of us is at a different point in our earthly pilgrimage. It’s getting it right, as some would say.
And why would any Anglican want to trade this for an ecclesial culture with oft-different values and experiences on a variety of fronts? Plus, given that the Personal Ordinariate is only in the formation stage in this country, does it really make sense to jump into the unknown?

Read the rest at Forward in Christ Magazine

Novena 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) falls on Dec. 29, just three days before the announcement of the ordinariate.

For those of you unfamiliar with the practice of praying novenas, read an explanation on the "Fish Eaters" site, including historical background and instructions. I would say that this particular novena falls into the second category listed, a novena of preparation or "anticipation." We would be pleased to hear from you if you do decide to participate.

Download the novena here.

from the website of the St. Thomas of Canterbury Anglican Use Society.

See also the story at Catholic Online: Novena Anticipates Announcement of the Anglican Ordinariate in the U.S.

Episcopal 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 times on a day when so much was different for St. Luke’s, the small Episcopal church in Maryland where Lewis had been rector since 2006.

On Sunday — with Lewis wearing lay clothing and sitting with St. Luke’s parishioners inside the Crypt Church at Washington’s Basilica of the National Shine of the Immaculate Conception — most of the parish from Bladensburg converted to Catholicism.

In doing so, St. Luke’s became the first Episcopal church in the United States to convert under new Vatican rules meant to attract curious Protestants.

“This truly is a historic moment,” said Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl, the archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, who led Sunday’s conversion Mass, which he called “a joyful moment of completion.”

Read the rest in The Washington Post

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See also this story posted on October 18th in The Living Church: "St. Luke's Finds its Way Home".

St 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 ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in the UK, will be the celebrant and preacher at St. Luke's on October 16, 10:00am. This will be the first ever Catholic Mass celebrated at St. Luke's.

Msgr. Newton was formerly a bishop of the Church of England and served as the Bishop of Richborough in the Province of Canterbury from 2002 to 2010. On January 15, 2011, he and two other former Church of England bishops were ordained to the priesthood in Westminster Cathedral by Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster. On this date Pope Benedict XVI appointed him the first ordinary of the Ordinariate in England and Wales.

The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham is the very first Ordinariate established by His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI. Ordinariates in other parts of the world are to be established in the near future.

from the web site of St Luke's parish, Bladensburg.

See these earlier posts:

"Big News in Washington"
"Anglicans on the Move"

Inquirer'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 the Abbey Church;
Saturday, November 12, 2011, 2:30 – 4:30 p.m., followed by Evening Prayer in the Abbey Church;
Saturday, December 10, 2011, 2:30 – 4:30 p.m., followed by Advent Lessons and Carols in the Abbey Church.

All of the Evening Prayer services, and the service of Advent Lessons and Carols, will be followed by coffee hour.

The course will consist of five major sections: Creed, Sacraments, Morals, Prayer and the Anglican Patrimony. Sacraments and Prayer will be covered in one session.

Although there will be an overview in each section, we will concentrate our efforts on those areas that our members have indicated are of the greatest interest to them as Anglicans considering reception into the Catholic Church through the ordinariate.

For example, there will be a discussion on authority in the Church, infallibility, human sexuality, the Precepts of the Catholic Church, and Mary and the Saints in the appropriate sections of the course.

The monks of St. Anselm's Abbey are assisting in preparing the materials and will lead the class.

Pre-registration is not required, and all members and non-members of the Society are welcome to attend. Please feel free to contact James Farr via e-mail (codeblueiii@yahoo.com) with any questions you may have.

Anglicans on the Move

07/05/2011
by 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 first Episcopal church in the Washington, D.C., area and the second in the state of Maryland to avail itself of Pope Benedict XVI’s offer to Anglicans. That offer was outlined in Anglicanorum Coetibus, an apostolic constitution that makes it possible for groups of Anglican congregations to enter the Catholic Church
For the St. Luke community, that will happen on Oct. 9, when Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington will receive them into the Catholic Church.”
The Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith last fall put Cardinal Wuerl in charge of coordinating the entry of Episcopal parishes into the Church...


Read the rest in The National Catholic Register

Hat tip to Mary Ann Mueller.

Evening 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 certainly have lots to talk about with the other conferees this year!) Keynote speaker is Msgr. Keith Newton, Ordinary for England and Wales. I will blog about it during the conference if I can find the time. If not, I will write a report after we return this Sunday.

For those of you who missed it, the service of Evensong & Benediction at Holy Spirit Catholic Church on June 26 was a great success. Over 150 in attendance, including a number of Anglicans from several churches in Northern Virginia and elsewhere. Below are links to three articles that have appeared since then. One note of clarification: The Catholic Online (CO) article mentions 140 attendees, which reflects the number of congregants at the service. The Arlington Catholic Herald (CH) article mentions the approximate number of Anglicans in attendance (50).

CO: http://www.catholic.org/hf/faith/story.php?id=41916
CH: http://www.catholicherald.com/local_news/detail.html?sub_id=16174
National Catholic Register: http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/anglicans-on-the-move/

We will be holding regular services of Evening Prayer at Holy Spirit on Sunday evenings in the future. I will send a mailing once our regular schedule is confirmed.

Check our website (http://www.stthomascanterbury.org/) for service schedules, directions, and information about the STCS. I look forward to seeing you at some future event.

God bless,

Heide Seward
Secretary
St. Thomas of Canterbury Anglican Use Society

Big news in Washington: “We are ordinariate bound!”

June 6, 2011
by Deacon Greg Kandra


That’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 announcement of Anglicanorum coetibus in October of 2009. Since that time we have been in close dialogue with both the Episcopal Diocese of Washington and the Archdiocese Washington...

Read the rest at The Deacon's Bench.