Tenebrae on Spy Wednesday at Mount Calvary

Please join Mount Calvary, Baltimore's Ordinariate parish, on the evening of Spy Wednesday for one of the only Catholic Holy Week Tenebrae services in the mid-Atlantic region. The Matins and Lauds of Maundy Thursday in the Anglican Use will be chanted by candlelight in the main church. Please join us at 7:00pm for this most moving and ancient of Holy Week liturgies. "And from the daughter of Syon all her beauty is departed : her princes are become like harts that find no pasture : and they are gone without strength before the pursuer." (First Nocturne of Matins)

Mount Calvary is located at 816 N. Eutaw Street in down Baltimore, at the corner of Madison and N. Eutaw. Ample parking space is available next to the church. For more information, see our website at www.mountcalvary.com or call us at 410-728-6140. 

Rome expected to take five years to approve Personal Ordinariate liturgy

Members of the personal ordinariate will have to wait up to five years for Rome to approve their liturgical texts definitively, it emerged this week.

It was originally thought that the Vatican would give the texts definitive approval within two or three years.

The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) has already given interim approval to all the ordinariate’s liturgical texts, except for the rite of Mass. These texts include the Calendar, Divine Office, marriage rite and funeral rite.

But the CDF has now asked a commission of scholars to scrutinise the Mass text. The commission held its first meeting last month.

Canterbury Press will publish the ordinariate’s interim approved texts later this year in a book called The Customary of Our Lady of Walsingham.

As the texts are provisional rather than definitive, Mgr Keith Newton, the leader of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham is expected to establish their status in a pastoral letter to members of the ordinariate.

from The Catholic Herald.

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from your blogger: this appears to apply only to the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in England & Wales (and one parish in Scotland to date). It may well be that the reason for a delay in final approval is that there will be interim rites in the UK, USA, Australia, et al, and the final version of the rites will be uniform for all English speakers.

Ordinariate 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 of Walsingham in England and Wales at the Ordinariate Portal. Download the PDF of part 1 of the Ordo (Advent to Lent).