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The Ordination Mass of the former Anglican bishop to the Catholic priesthood is Oct. 30, 2021 at 12 p.m. BST and will be livestreamed.

The purpose and goal of the Method was to move toward salvation, health, and renewal in Jesus Christ one step at a time. Fasting is an example of this belief put into action.

EXCERPT: Asked how he sees his future in the Catholic Church, Nazir-Ali told the Register that he awaits “guidance from the ordinariate and Vatican authorities about the next steps.” In the meantime, he intends to carry on with his “work of supporting and developing leadership among persecuted Christian communities.”

This is a special edition of the PortalMag podcast in which Dr Michael Nazir Ali talks exclusively to PortalMag podcast editor Ian O'Hara about his decision to join the Catholic Church and the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.

The Ordinariate makes extensive use of instituted acolytes, but the acolyte’s vocation has a wider scope in a parish or community’s life than just serving at the liturgy. The lay ministry models the response of Christian discipleship: “Yes, Lord, I will serve.”

EXCERPT: On Saturday, October 16th, the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham held a highly successful day pilgrimage to St Ninian’s, Tynet and St Gregory’s, Preshome in Morayshire, northern Scotland. The theme of the day was to look at the ways the Catholic community had survived the penal periods of the 17th and 18th centuries, and to acknowledge that many of the same strictures faced Episcopalians in Scotland at that time. Indeed, many who attended the day had been received into full communion with the Catholic Church from the Scottish Episcopal Church.

EXCEPRT: This question of theological ambiguity came up again recently in a different context, whilst preparing Divine Worship: Daily Office (Commonwealth Edition). This is the new office book for the ordinariates for former Anglicans in Britain and Australia, drawing heavily on the prayer book texts. Those responsible for this work had a choice to face: should the familiar language of the English prayer book be retained, or, given these ambiguities, should it be replaced? Would the inclusion of these phrases imply the ‘canonization’ of questionable theological views, or even introduce the kind of ambiguity that I have outlined, and so risk undermining the wider integrity of the deposit of faith which the Catholic Church proposes and holds?

Evensong for the 20th Sunday after Trinity at the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter's Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham in Houston, Texas.

EXCERPT: "This is without doubt one of the most politically and theologically significant changes of allegiance in the Christian world for some time. There have been a number of high-profile conversions including a former Bishop of London. So why should that of Michael be so nuclear in ecclesiastical and political life? The answer is that he formed the centre of a nucleus of evangelical resistance to the slippage in the secular progressive accommodation embarked on by the Anglican Church."

Ordinariate communities can take advantage of John Wesley’s insights into forming disciples of Jesus Christ through setting up Bible studies, which can build intentional Christian community around discipleship. Here's how.

The Durandus Institute Executive Director reflects on the journey to the first Ordinariate Mass in NYC, how it all came together, and what the future holds.

Excerpt: "Bishop Nazir Ali was received into the Catholic faith on September 29, the feast of St Michael and All Angels by Monsignor Keith Newton, the former Anglican who now leads the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. He will serve in the Ordinariate, a Catholic organisation set up by Pope Benedict XVI a decade ago for the corporate reception of Anglicans, after he is ordained deacon at Oscott College on October 28 by the Most Rev. Bernard Longley, the Archbishop of Birmingham, and then as priest by Cardinal Vincent Nichols in Westminster Cathedral on October 30."

On Thursday, October 7, the Durandus Institute for Sacred Liturgy and Music assisted the Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter in organizing a Pontifical Mass at the Cathedral Basilica of Ss Peter and Paul in Philadelphia, celebrated according to the Divine Worship Missal in honor of St John Henry Newman. The Mass was offered by Bishop Steven Lopes, presiding from the faldstool in the presence of the Most Rev. Nelson Pérez, Archbishop of Philadelphia, who attended in-choir on the throne, and preached the homily. ...

The first ever ‘Anglican Use’ Mass in NYC took place at St. Vincent Ferrer church in 2004, and thanks to the Anglican Use Society’s efforts it planted vital seeds that are now flourishing today in the Ordinariate.

The Oct. 7th Mass at 7 p.m. honors St John Henry Newman, and will be celebrated by Ordinariate Bishop Steven J. Lopes, with Philadelphia Archbishop Nelson J. Perez preaching.

Bishop Steven J. Lopes of the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter gave the keynote speech for the national prayer breakfast event attended by a thousand Catholic leaders in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 14.

Ordinariate Catholics can take a page from John Wesley’s Oxford Holy Club to carry out Vatican II’s vision for the Daily Office, evangelization and ecumenism.

A new Ordinariate community in England shows that conversions to Catholicism from the Church of England are an ongoing reality, aided by the Ordinariate’s Anglican patrimony.

The Portal is the monthly review of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.

"Last Friday, the Durandus Institute for Sacred Liturgy and Music--which debuted with the Sarum Vespers of Candlemas Eve in Philadelphia, and assisted with the recent Pontifical Latin Mass of the Assumption in the Philadelphia cathedral--organized the first-ever Mass celebrated in New York City according to the Divine Worship Missal of the Ordinariates, formerly known as the 'Anglican Use.' An assortment of Ordinariate, Dominican, and diocesan clergy, and about 250 of the faithful, came to the church of Saint Vincent Ferrer in Manhattan to attend this historic celebration of the feast of Our Lady of Walsingham..."