Ordinariate Pilgrim
January 7, 2013 4 Comments
Ordinariate Pilgrim is a quiet blog I that came across for the first time today, by Scott Anderson.
On February 2nd 2012 I was received into the Catholic Church through the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. I was 62 years of age and had been ordained in the Church of England for 37 years. I have the privilege to live at the moment the life of a Catholic layman, dividing my time between England and France. This means that I have three spiritual homes: the London (South) Ordinariate group provides me with Sunday worship, the friendship of fellow Ordinariate pilgrims, and a growing sense of mission within the parish of the Most Precious Blood at Borough; then for the daily Mass the Jesuit Parish of the Sacred Heart, Wimbledon with its huge and lively congregation, musical tradition and great preaching; and finally the parish of Notre Dame des Etangs in Picardy, where I have found a welcome, singing with the choir, occasionally playing the organ, and generally improving my french!
With many other former Anglicans I give thanks for the very direct welcome that Pope Benedict XVI has given to us, by setting up the Ordinariates. It is always good to feel wanted, in any aspect of life, and not least in the Church…
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Yawn. The Roman ordinariates are such a failure- I’m not sure why there was such a fuss about them in some (admittedly limited) sections of the media. According to Dr Barret’s research back in 2008 there were already more than 104 million Anglican Christians across the globe ( and the number has continued to climb since then) and of that 104 million only a few thousand (mainly elderly) have joined the Roman ordinariates. Interestingly a Roman Catholic parish of over 250 members recently joined a Continuing Anglican jurisdiction in South Africa- I would have thoughtb that a more newsworthy item for a blog such as this one. God’s peace.
Yes, if only the news you describe was actually made known. Care to enlighten us?
Oh, and if it has anything to do with Anglican Catholic Church, then you can spare me the sordid details.
Father, why the bias against the Anglican Catholic Church? They are an historic Continuing Anglican jurisdiction and they are keen on remaining Anglican not becoming Roman. Since when ( apart from the reign of “Bloody Mary” in the 16th century) has that been a crime? Admittedly they have picked up a lot of congregations and people out of the Traditional Anglican Communion but they were only doing that to save those people from Rome during the unstable priamcy of John Hepworth. Father, forgive my ignorance but why the apparent bias against the ACC?