Liturgical Guidelines from the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham

Released today on Facebook (and no doubt soon on the web site), the UK's Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham has released a set of guidelines for liturgical use.* Among the highlights:

1. Use of the Rite I Eucharistic liturgy of the Book of Divine Worship is permitted.

2. Slight modifications of the Rite I BDW liturgy are to be made: the words of consecration, the anamnesis and the offertory prayers are to conform with the 3rd edition of the Roman Missal.

3. The psalter from the Book of Divine Worship is not permitted; the psalter from the Customary of Our Lady of Walsingham is preferred.

4. The Anglican Use Gradual (editor: C. David Burt) is commended for use for singing the propers.

*Note: The linked file is a PDF, but does not have the ".pdf" extension, and may not open with a double-click (particularly on Windows-based PCs). It will open from within Adobe Acrobat.

Anglican Embers published and on way to subscribers

Anglican Embers is the quarterly journal of the Anglican Use Society, published (roughly) at the four embertides of the year. The latest issue just got mailed (a few weeks late). This issue is the final issue of the third volume (each volume has 12 issues), which means that Embers has now been published for 9 full years!

This issue's table of contents includes:

The Anglican Use & Ordinariates Online, page 523
The Anglican Patrimony and the New Evangelization,
Rev. John Jay Hughes, page 527
Compel People to Come In: Growth in Holiness,
Rev. Andrew Bartus, page 539
Practical Considerations and Future Directions in the Pastoral Provision and Ordinariate,
Dr. Marlon De La Torre, page 546
MUSIC: Minor Propers for the Feast of The Chair of St. Peter, Feburary 22
C. David Burt, editor, page 550

David Burt began the journal and served as the editor into the early issues of Volume II, after which he asked me to take over the journal. In that time we have published talks given at the annual Anglican Use Conferences, three graduate dissertations (serially) on topics of interest to the Anglican Use, several new settings of Mass propers for major feasts (Our Lady of the Atonement, Sacred Heart, Conversion of St. Paul), an account of the Society's pilgrimage to Rome and many other articles. Several articles are available for download from the Anglican Embers page on the AUS web site.

Laying hands on Fr Hunwicke

Only as a presbyter, of course. Fr John Hunwicke was ordained yesterday at the Church of St Aloysius at Oxford, the home of the Oxford Oratory, by Bishop William Kenney, Auxiliary in Birmingham.

Here he is, prostrate during the Litany of the Saints sung by Fr James Bradley:

The Newman Consort sang Palestrina's Missa Papae Marcelli for the Kyrie and Sanctus, and the plainchant Introit, Gradual, Offertory and Communion. At the anointing, they sang Iam non dicam vos servos by Dominique Phinot, and at Communion Byrd's Sacerdotes Domini. The singing was sublime and I was glad that I made the choice to attend in choro since I was able to listen to the music as part of my actuosa participatio. Fr Michael Mary and Brother Martin de Porres were also in choir, along with Fr Edward van den Bergh of the London Oratory. Concelebrants, in addition to priests of the Ordinariate, and priests from the Oratory, included Fr John Saward, Fr Aidan Nichols OP and Fr John Osman

The ceremony showed that the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham can teach many of us something about the Roman Liturgy. Having the propers sung in the proper place is routine for the Ordinariate at sung Masses. May their good example inspire parishes to discover the proper place of sacred music.

After Mass, along with the others present, I received Fr Hunwicke's blessing. I was glad to have made the journey to Oxford for the greater blessing of his priestly ordination which God has granted to the Church and for which many of us have been praying earnestly.

from Fr. Finigan's blog Hermenutic of Continuity.