Anglican Use/Ordinariate Related posts this week on the New Liturgical Movement blog

This week two posts about themes that should be of interest to those whose hearts and minds are occupied by all things Anglican Use were posted on the New Liturgical Movement blog.

Toward the end of the week we were treated to a post on Fr. Frederick William Faber:

A Tribute to Fr. Frederick William Faber

BY JEFFREY TUCKER

Fr. Anthony Symondson, SJ, delivered this outstanding tribute to Frederick William Faber, English hymnwriter ("Faith of Our Fathers") and founder of the London Oratory, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of his death in 1863.

FR FREDERICK FABER
The death of Fr Frederick William Faber of Bright’s Disease at the age of forty-nine on the morning of 26 September 1863, just after seven, after a long and painful illness was met by an outpouring of grief that affected the greater part of London and extended to distant parts of the country. His funeral in the newly-built Oratory Church attracted a great crowd of rich and poor of whom the second were in the ascendant; the poor loved him and he loved them...

Go read the whole post for more on this important convert from the Church of England during Tractarian times.



 The week started, however, with a post on the revised Ordinariate liturgy for Mass (many of the comments, unfortunately, shedding more heat than light!), which has been enjoying a "trial run" in a handful of parishes, including the principal church of the US Ordinariate in Houston, and which is due to be rolled out to all parishes in North America on Advent Sunday, following an introduction to all the clergy at a retreat in Florida in late October.

Introducing the Ordinariate Use

BY CHARLES COLE

From the Friends of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham:

History will be made in the Catholic Church on Thursday 10 October when a new text for the Mass which includes traditional Anglican words is officially introduced in London.

The new text has been devised for use by Ordinariates throughout the English-speaking world as a way of putting into practice Pope Benedict XVI’s vision of allowing former Anglicans who wish to enter the full communion of the Catholic Church to do so whilst retaining aspects of their spiritual and liturgical traditions. Benedict XVI described these as “precious gifts” and “treasures to be shared”.

The new liturgy — the work of a special commission established by Rome and now approved by the Holy See — includes material from the Anglican Book of Common Prayer (1662) as well as the Roman Rite. It will be unveiled with a Mass followed by a media launch at the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption and St Gregory, Warwick Street, Soho...

Read the whole post and comments at NLM.

Msgr Keith Newton on the state of the Ordinariate in the UK

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

Next Tuesday, 24 September, the Feast of Our Lady of Walsingham, is an opportune moment to be invited to write to you about the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, established two and a half years ago. I am grateful to your bishop for giving me this opportunity to tell you about the contribution the Ordinariate makes to the life and mission of the Catholic Church in our country.

Pope Benedict XVI established this new structure in 2011. He wanted to help groups of Anglicans, who wished to bring with them some of the traditions and beauty of the Anglican heritage in which they were nurtu-red, the ability to enter into full communion of the Catholic Church.

Since then more than 80 former Anglican clergy have been ordained as Catholic priests of the Ordinariate in England and Wales. They lead about 40 groups of former Anglican lay people, as well as serving the wider Catholic Church as chaplains in hospitals, prisons or schools or as diocesan priests. In London two churches have been entrusted to us. Elsewhere, our groups celebrate Ordinariate Masses in diocesan Catholic churches. We now have our own Ordinariate rite, which draws on those elements of the Anglican tradition which are consistent with Catholic teaching. As it is gradually introduced, it will add to the distinctive character of our worship. Already, one of the jewels of the Anglican tradition, choral Evensong, is beingregularly celebrated by the Ordinariate in some Catholic churches.

The Ordinariate adds to the rich diversity of the Catholic Church. Any Catholic is free to take part in the life and liturgy of the Ordinariate and receive the Sacraments from its clergy. Our priests are just like any other Catholic priests. By attending an Ordinariate Mass, you are fulfilling your obligation, just as you would by going to any Catholic church in the world. Members of the Ordinariate are likewise free to attend Mass in any Catholic church, being truly and fully members of the Catholic Church.

People coming to our Masses have spoken positively about the conviction of our preaching, our strong musical tradition and hymn singing, our pastoral outreach and the welcoming nature of our gatherings afterwards. This puts us in a strong position to play a full part, with the whole Church, in the urgent task of the New Evangelisation.

Like many members of the Church of England, in which I was ordained for over 35 years, I longed and prayed for union with the Catholic Church and the Ordinariate was a personal fulfilment of those prayers. It has been an incredible and uplifting journey for us all, full of grace, joy and blessings. Of course, we have experienced hardship and sacrifice as well. For many, especially those of our priests who are married with families, there has been great financial uncertainty; for us all it has meant leaving friends and familiar places of worship in the Church of England. We ask for your encouragement, your support and your prayers.

You may ask why we did not become Catholics in the usual way. It is a reasonable question but misses the most important point about the Ordinariate, that it is 'a prophetic gesture that can contribute positively to the developing relations between Anglicans and Catholics' and 'It helps us to set our sights on the ultimate goal of all ecumenical activity: the restoration of full ecclesial communion in the context of which the mutual exchange of gifts from our respective spiritual patrimonies serves as an enrichment to us all' (Benedict XVI, Address to the Bishops, Oscott College, September 2010).

The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham has begun in a small way but it is a concrete expression of the Church's desire to fulfil our Lord's command that 'they may all be one'. It is a small step towards healing one of the most damaging wounds of our history: the dividing of Christ's Body, the Church in this land.

With the assurance of my prayers for the whole Church as we all seek to be faithful to Our Lord Jesus Christ.

Monsignor Keith Newton, Ordinary

from The Tablet, September 20, 2013

hat tip to Mary Ann Mueller

Permanent home found for Sisters who left Anglican community

Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary found a home in Birmingham
26 August 2013
by Susie Turner

The new religious community of the Personal Ordinariate, the Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary, has moved into a permanent home for the first time since being received into the full communion of the Catholic Church.

The community includes 11 sisters who had been part of the Anglican Community of St Mary the Virgin in Wantage, Oxfordshire, and one sister who belonged to an Anglican community in Walsingham.

They are now part of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham adopting the Benedictine rule, and officially became part of the Catholic fold on New Year's Day.

They had no endowments to sustain them financially and have spent the last eight months as guests at an enclosed Benedictine abbey on the Isle of Wight...

Read the rest at Christian Today.

Hat tip to Mary Ann Mueller

The June issue of The Portal Magazine has been published online

The June issue of The Portal Magazine, the official monthly journal of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in the UK has been posted.

Always an interesting and enjoyable read, it contains a nice introduction to Miles Coverdale in its Anglican Luminaries column. Coverdale was a translator (from the Vulgate and the German Bible) of the Bible into English, and his version of the psalms continues to be the version used in the Book of Common Prayer (and The Customary of Our Lady of Walsingham) and in a slightly altered form, that of the Book of Divine Worship.

The final page has an interesting article on the likelihood of homosexual marriage being legislatively approved in the UK, noting that a first step to this was changing the definition of marriage from "the joining of one man with one woman, forsaking all others until death do us part”, by eliminiating the “till death do us part” (shelved with easy-to-get divorce). This legislation, like similar legislation passed by some U.S. states is now doing away with the “one man and one woman” bit as well. The article notes that "in order to facilitate this change, such concepts as adultery and consummation have, I believe, been abolished. This should give the game away, but no, the modernisers just carry on regardless."

May issue of The Portal is available

The Portal, the official magazine of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in the UK has posted its May issue a few days early.

Among the stories, there's an interesting response to an essay posted by Telegraph writer/blogger Damian Thompson, which I noted here when it first came out. The essay in The Portal is woven around the comment by Mr. Thompson "Put it this way: one of the treasures of Anglicanism that the Ordinariate can bring to Rome has nothing to do with vestments or prayer books – it’s the tradition of the Anglo-Catholic ‘slum priests’ who carried the Gospel to the darkest alleyways of Jack the Ripper’s London.?"

Hat tip to Fr. Smuts at his eponymous blog for pointing out the early publication.

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.

Borough’s Precious Blood RC church entrusted to former Anglicans

Tuesday 8 January 2013

The Salvatorian community, which has served the the Roman Catholic Church of the Most Precious Blood for three decades, has left Southwark and the church has been placed in the care of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.

Just before Christmas parishioners learnt that the church in O'Meara Street would be entrusted to the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.

The Ordinariate was established in 2011 to enable former Anglicans to join the Roman Catholic church whilst retaining some of their distinctive liturgical traditions.

Members of the Ordinariate in South London have been worshipping at the Church of the Precious Blood for nearly a year. Regular services include Anglican-style Evensong on Thursday evenings.

Last Sunday marked the end of the tenure of Fr Richard Mway Zeng SDS as parish priest and the Sunday morning Mass was followed by a farewell party to commemorate the end of the Salvatorians' 30-year association with the parish.

The new priest-in-charge is Fr Christopher Pearson, who until spring 2011 was the vicar of the Anglican parish of St Agnes Kennington Park.

Mgr Keith Newton, Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, said: "We are very grateful to Archbishop Peter Smith and the diocesan authorities for making this possible.

"It represents a positive moment in the life of the Ordinariate, as we grow towards the establishment of our own parishes and communities."

• Mgr Keith Newton will preside and preach at the 11am Mass on Sunday 13 January

source: http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/6529

Hat tip to Mary Ann Mueller

UK Ordinariate to hold day conference on mission and evangelisation

Inspired by the Year of Faith, which opened this week, the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham is hosting a one day conference on mission and evangelisation for members and supports of Pope Benedict’s vision for the reunion of Anglicans with the See of Peter.

The conference, which will take place at the church of St Patrick, Soho Square - itself described as ‘a beacon of hope’ for the New Evangelisation - will have keynote presentations from experienced ‘practitioners’, and the opportunity for discussion, questions, and answers.

Fr Allan Hawkins, Parish Priest of St Mary the Virgin in Arlington, Texas, is a former Anglican clergyman who was received into the Catholic Church and ordained under the Pastoral Provision of Blessed John Paul II. Since the advent of the Pastoral Provision, Fr Hawkins has grown and developed a Catholic parish community within the Anglican liturgical and spiritual tradition. Earlier this year it was announced that the parish will transfer to the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter.

Fr Paul Richardson is a priest of the Archdiocese of Westminster. He was formerly Assistant Bishop of Newcastle in the Church of England, previously working in Norway, and as a missionary in Nambaiyfa, Papua New Guinea. He was Principal of Newton Theological College, Popondetta, Dean of Port Moresby, and subsequently Bishop of Aipo Rongo, Papua New Guinea, and later Bishop of Wangaratta in Australia.

A spokesman for the Ordinariate said, “This is an exciting opportunity for us and our supporters to begin to think in a strategic way about the development of our mission. We are integrated into the Catholic Church by virtue of our communion, but the Year of Faith presents us with an opportunity to think about the ways in which we can contribute - as the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham - to the work of the New Evangelisation, claiming back these lands for Mary’s Dowry’.

The conference takes place on Friday 9 November 2012 from 11.00 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. All are welcome to attend. No charge is made, but a donation of £10 is requested, plus a further donation to help cover the cost of lunch, which will be provided. To register your interest, please email media@ordinariate.org.uk.

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For those of you, my readers, who are not up to crossing the pond, the Anglican Use Society's Annual Conference is November 8-10 in Kansas City. Register for the AUS conference here.

"New Evangelisation" at a Local Level

New Evangelisation at a Local Level from UKOrdinariate on Vimeo.

Fr Ian Hellyer from the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham speaks about the importance of the work of evangelisation at a local level.

"The New Evangellization" is the theme for weekend conference for UK Ordinariate

Father James Bradley writes:

Something For The Weekend

This Saturday the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham welcomes Professor Tracey Rowland to lead our thoughts on the New Evangelisation in the thought of Pope Benedict XVI, with a particular attention to the role we have in that important work from our unique place in the life of the Church.

Professor Rowland is the Dean and Permanent Fellow of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family in Melbourne, Australia, and the author of numerous articles and several excellent books (including two works on Pope Benedict XVI). She is an engaging speaker and holds a passion for the New Evangelisation, and also for the Ordinariate project, about which she has spoken previously...

Read the whole post at his blog Thine Own Service.