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EXCERPT: “I believe that God doesn’t waste my time.” My friend made this comment one night recently at our house, and it really stuck with me. He was talking about his experience as an Episcopal priest coming into Catholicism, and the understanding that God would use his unique background for something good. We former Protestants can relate to that sentiment, can’t we? It’s the paradoxical feeling that you’ve wasted years on the outskirts of the fullness of God’s truth, but that you wouldn’t have come home to Rome any other way. Even the events that we perceive as missteps will have a purpose in the kingdom of God; he’s not in the business of wasting time.

Fr Christopher Lindlar, convener of the working group behind Divine Worship: Daily Office (Commonwealth edition) discusses the liturgical book’s success and new related projects in the pipeline.

For this Christmas podcast, the Ordinary, The Right Revd. Monsignor Keith Newton send his Christmas greetings; Ronal reflects on the Gospel of the Day and Ed Matyjeszek reads two of his poems "Christmas Night" and Miriam's refrain." There is the usual news from around the groups, and the Sussex Carol as the podcast's Christmas piece of music.

Many Protestants have found their way to the Catholic Church through the Book of Common Prayer prior to the Ordinariates – this legacy can help all recover a sense of mindfulness of God’s presence through renewed appreciation and recovery of beauty and the sacred in culture.

EXCERPT: "This may come as a surprise to many of you (it is as much of a surprise to me), but I am, next month, joining the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter in the Roman Catholic Church. I do not write this to argue but to explain my thought process and to clear the table for my future theological ministry that I have thus provided."

Fr Robbie Low completes his series of Advent meditations by looking at "Anticipation", Ronald Crane reflects on the reading from the book pf Micah, Laura brings us the news around the Groups, and the Choir of St George's chapel Windsor sing us out with the Advent carol. O Come, O Come Emmanuel. Next week's podcast will go live at 4pm on Friday 24th December.

Clara Chung, the President of the Anglicanorum Coetibus Society, invites supporters to give to the ACS's Advancement Fund to help the ACS do more in 2022 to promote the Anglican patrimony in service of the evangelization of souls and the building up of the Catholic Church.

Karen and Jeffrey Adams, both Catholics of the Anglican tradition, have organized Evensong for the Fourth Sunday of Advent, at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Staunton, Virginia.

EXCERPT: A group of Catholic and Anglican theologians has publicly called on the Vatican to review and overturn a papal document from 1896 that declared Anglican ordinations "absolutely null and utterly void."

This EWTN programme informs you about St John Henry Newman (1801-1890), especially about his various visits to Rome.

Ordinariate pastors can realize enormous evangelizing possibilities with laity by learning from John Wesley. He adopted open air preaching to increase his reach and audience, and trained lay preachers to extend the Gospel’s reach.

Ordinariate Lessons and Carols were held at St. Gregory's on Warwick Street, the headquarters of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, on December 13, 2021.

Analysis: The Ordinariate bishop’s expertise and experience will greatly aid the U.S. bishops three-year campaign for Eucharistic Renewal.

A Festival of Lessons and Carols for Advent held on December 12, 2021, Gaudete Sunday, at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham in Houston, Texas. The cathedral is the mother church of the Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter, one of three dioceses with Anglican traditions in the Catholic Church.

The Traditional Anglican primate and archbishop achieved Christian unity not seen since the Reformation, at great personal cost, and was finally reunited with the Catholic Church as a priest in good standing.

EXCERPT: "I typically do not prefer physical books, and had been using an app for the Daily Prayers for a few years off and on. I was drawn to this physical book because it is the Commonwealth Edition. I took the plunge ...This is a book I am thankful I picked up, the cost with shipping to Canada required my saving up my reading money. But it is worth it."

EXCEPRT: By any standards, the news that Michael Nazir-Ali had been received into the Catholic faith is stunning. The former Church of England Bishop of Rochester, an intellectual heavyweight once considered for Canterbury itself, is used to making waves. But his plunge into the Tiber may prove his biggest splash yet.

The new e-monthly St. Peter’s Rambler is an ACS initiative that aims to share good news, good ideas and good inspirations taking place in the Ordinariates in order to equip Catholic missionary disciples in the Anglican tradition.

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

Loss & Gain editors Timothy McCleod and Ryan Pollack, both former Episcopal priests now Catholic, talk with Fr. Michael Nazir-Ali, the former Anglican Bishop of Rochester who is now a Catholic priest in the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.