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EXCERPT: "We stand with the Archbishop, and the people of the Ukraine in closeness to the country’s 'wounded population'. The invasion of a country, with a democratically elected government, is a matter of deep sorrow, and contrary to all the norms of international relations. Our prayer is for the violence to stop and the invading troops to withdraw."

EXCERPT: An Ordinariate Mass held at Holy Ghost Church in Knoxville was the first of its kind celebrated in East Tennessee: a liturgy in English that also featured the incense, solemnity, and ad orientem worship usually associated with the extraordinary form.

EXCERPT: It may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but I wish there were more Ordinariate communities in more places, not only to help shepherd more Protestants into the Catholic Church, but also to enrich ordinary Catholics’ lives with additional resources for their sacramental and devotional well-being.

EXCERPT: The general understanding is that revisions to an Apostolic Constitution expand, further define, and possibly magnify the topic the Apostolic Constitution addresses. So, when I heard, from some of my Traditionalist friends, that the pope was gunning for the Ordinariate next, this quickly came to mind. It’s an Apostolic Constitution. That’s not to say the pope can’t change it. He can. But that would be extremely unlikely. If he did anything to it at all, the odds are it would be an expansion, not a reversal.

The Ordinariate Members and Friends of Austin have made strong strides toward meeting the Ordinariate's preliminary criteria for petitioning for canonical status by putting the Ordinariate’s mission from Pope Francis into action through evangelization, discipleship, and providing Christian fellowship.

EXCERPT: With Fr Michael Nazir-Ali, Jonathan Goodall and John Goddard, that makes four Church of England bishops who in the last year have abandoned Anglicanism and asked to be reconciled to the mother church. Some people will look at the tally of converts growing and simply be grateful that such people of proven spiritual calibre have set aside the tragic schism that wounded the body of Christ in these islands and the process of their reconversion. But it is not as simple as the numbers growing.

Robert Tickle continues his Saint of the month series, looking at the lives of Saints Cyril and Methodius, Ronald Crane reflects on the collect, Laura Magson has lots of news from around the groups.

The Portland Anglican Patrimony Society is laying the groundwork for an eventual Ordinariate mission located in a metro area where four out of 10 residents have “no religion.”  

Ordinariate parishes have to transform themselves into evangelizing communities in order to grow. Sherry Weddell’s Becoming a Parish of Intentional Disciples offers insight into how to accomplish this.

Bishop Steven J. Lopes of the Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter gives the homily at Christ the King Catholic Church, an Ordinariate parish in Towson, Md.

By immersing men at the parish level in the Anglican Patrimony -- all the liturgical, spiritual, pastoral, and theological traditions consistent with Catholic faith and practice -- the Littlemore Fellowship is forming them to better follow Jesus Christ, share the Gospel, and invite others into unity with the Catholic Church.

Jane Brock always believed in serving God through social work, ministry, hospital chaplaincy or bereavement. But after becoming an Episcopal priest, she realized her true calling was as a lay, single, faithful Catholic.

EXCERPT: With Fr Michael Nazir-Ali, Jonathan Goodall and John Goddard, that makes four Church of England bishops who in the last year have abandoned Anglicanism and asked to be reconciled to the mother church.

This week listeners hear from a young seminarian in the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church who has just returned from Kiev, Bohdan Mandziuk, there is have the usual weekly reflection from Ronald Crane, and News from around the groups with Laura Magson.

EXCERPT: A former Bishop of Chester, Dr Peter Forster, was received into the Roman Catholic Church last year, it was confirmed this week. The news follows the reception of Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, a former Bishop of Rochester, into the RC Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.

The Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham is participating in the preparations for the Catholic Church’s worldwide Synod on Synodality in 2023.

There’s something about the feast of the Presentation—formerly known as the Purification of Our Lady, or simply “Candlemas”—that seizes the Anglo-Catholic imagination like few other feasts can.

The journey was about not forsaking my spiritual heritage. I wanted to experience the fullness of my own Methodist tradition, with its charism of joyful discovery and encounter with Jesus, in the Catholic Church.

The January-February 2022 issue (a combined issue due to Covid-19 afflicting the production team in January) contains news from around the Ordinariates, and showcases articles on faith formation, prayer, liturgical living, parish-building through discipleship, and one group that is growing the Ordinariate through evangelization and ecumenical invitation into Catholic unity.

This is the February 2022 edition of The Portal Magazine, the monthly review of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.