Another ACCA (TAC) to be Ordained in the Ordinariate, Australia
October 22, 2012 8 Comments
Via Psallite Sapienter:
Latest news from the Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross:
Please pray for WARREN WADE to be ordained priest by the Most Rev David Walker, Bishop of Broken Bay, by letters dimissory from the Very Rev Harry Entwistle, at 7:30 on Wednesday December 12th in Our Lady of the Rosary Cathedral, Waitara, NSW.
He will be the eighth priest and ninth cleric of the nascent Ordinariate.
According to records of the TAC’s Anglican Catholic Church of Australia, Warren Wade is their priest for the parish of St Mary the Virgin, which currently meets in North Turramurra, one of the northern suburbs of Sydney (and thus within the Catholic Diocese of Broken Bay).
Furthermore, an Ordinariate group is forming in north-east Victoria, around Benalla.
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This must mean thye ordinariate has the proportion of one cleric for every five laity.
The original group (in Perth) alone would make the proportion of one to ten. But there are at least two other OSC groups (in Melbourne and Brisbane) which are known to have regular Sunday masses by now.
I really wonder why you, a convert yourself, feel so much contempt for the Ordinariates…
Contempt.? Positive loving criticism in fact, grounded in reality. From the start I have been accurate in my predictions and analysis of the Ordinariate. Remember the 400,000..the dubious leadership of a certain ex Ctholic priest ( twice married and divorced) etc.
I will always assert that the Ordinariate is not the authentic Anglican patrimony, but a tiny remnant of the Anglo Catholic movement, birthed out of Victorian ritualism.
Robert, my dear chap, if there are few laity then the good fathers whill have plety of time to go out into the highways and byways to recruit some more laity!
Unfortunately…they will not do that.The congregations thay previously had were tiny.
How can you say “they will not do that”? On the ground, growth has been a consistent element in the various ordinariates. For example, St John’s Calgary report an ASA of 120 when it was only about 70 previously to coming in full communion. And it’s only one of many many such reports.
+ PADX et BONUM
@ Robert Ian Williams: The Holy Father is reported to apply the parable of the mustard seed to the Ordinarites. I would be prepared to argue that this is not a numbers game – if souls are brought into full communion, irrespective of how many or how few, then it will have been worthwhile.
Perhaps Robert would remind us all as to how many Our Lord had when he worked on this earth? When 2 or 3 are gathered………..!