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EXCERPT: Any Catholic, even a regular Diocesan Catholic, can start and English Patrimony Group. The best way to do this is to get acquainted with the English Patrimony, and that is best done through the liturgical books found at the Anglicanorum Coetibus Society website. Then, if it is something you love (and that’s important), then you should have a chat with your local bishop, or his vicar general, as soon as you’re able. Let him know you want to attempt an ecumenical outreach in your area using these Vatican approved books of the English Patrimony.

EXCERPT: The Personal Ordinariates responded to a movement that has haunted Anglicanism since its conception five centuries ago, namely the movement to conserve the religious character of the nation and her institutions, an aspect of which was reforming Church establishment and strengthening the nation’s ties with the Church Universal. This movement was once simply known as ‘Toryism.’

EXCERPT: My family is not English nor has anyone in my lineage, to my knowledge, ever been an Anglican. Our attending was the result of our sadness at the lack of beauty at the Masses in Texas and that our family had just moved from Rome. If the Ordinariate does one thing right, it’s liturgical beauty

The March 27 event is spearheaded by Jeffrey and Karen Adams, both Catholics and former Anglicans who had served as missionaries at Uganda Christian University, and is generating high levels of interest in the Ordinariate.

A group of Portland-area families is working to become Catholic while retaining much of their Anglican spiritual and liturgical heritage.

The Ordinariate's Catholic faithful are encouraged to pray the rosary for peace and the conversion of sinners. Also, in the United Kingdom, Msgr. Keith Newton is also mobilizing the Ordinariate communities to join an emergency appeal to provide material support to Ukrainian charities supporting the people shattered by Russia’s war.  

Within a year, four Church of England bishops became Catholic — a decision rooted both in discipleship of Jesus Christ and a realization that corporate unity between Catholicism and Anglicanism was becoming impossible.

THE CHALLENGE for all of us is to encourage each other to come together for this conference and let God speak to us as we seek to serve. ‘Risen, Ascended, Glorified’ will give us time to strengthen both our local and national bonds as this conference is open to all who journey in The Ordinariate both members and those who encourage us. It is very much hoped that pastors will encourage their respective communities to participate and to share with them in what is hoped will be very special days. Particularly welcome to these days are members of The Ordinariate who are far from any group. THE INVITATION is for you to come.

EXCERPT: The General Confession is a gem of a prayer from the Anglican Patrimony received into the Catholic Church. Every time we pray it, we ask God to help us shake loose the grime of sin. The General Confession in the Penitential Rite points us in the direction of the Sacrament of Penance (Confession), “that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.”

EXCEPRT: For some who knew of my work in the ecumenical world, the decision may have seemed puzzling. For others, it may have seemed a logical progression. I spent many years as a member of the ­Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission...ARCIC produced a series of remarkable agreements on matters that had been seen as Church-dividing: Eucharist, ministry, authority, salvation, moral teaching, and the Blessed Virgin Mary. I would not wish to downplay ARCIC’s achievement. And yet it was compromised again and again by unilateral and unprincipled action in various parts of the Anglican Communion. Over time, I came to observe weaknesses in the Anglican Communion; and as I reflected on these I began to realize, more and more, that what I was looking for was to be found in the Catholic Church.

EXCERPT: Speaking to CNS, Father Nazir-Ali said he thought all four were all united by the convictions they had about authority within the church – where it rested and how that authority was exercised.

EXCERPT: There is a kind of Anglican for whom I maintain a deep affinity, not least because I was in his shoes not long ago. He sees Anglicanism through the lens of the Oxford Movement, branch theories, and Tracts, refers to Roman Catholicism as the “Church of Rome”, thinks his own tribe part of “The Western Church”, feels Newman’s conversion tragic yet relatable, believes his own holy orders valid and apostolic succession secure. For this kind of Anglican – and especially to the ones who are friends of mine - I propose a question, To which version of Anglo-Catholicism do you subscribe?

The United Methodist Church is facing a messy split in 2022 – raising awareness about the Ordinariates could provide many Methodists and the Wesleyan Method a secure and lasting home in the Catholic Church.

EXCERPT: The parish of St John the Baptist in Bridgeport, Pennsylvania, where I serve as subdeacon, is an Ordinariate community serving the Philadelphia region. Besides having a Ukrainian Catholic parish up the street for neighbors, we are in proximity to the cathedral of the Ukrainian Archeparchy of Philadelphia. Following the invasion of Ukraine, we were moved to organize a special votive Mass for peace (or, as the Ordinariate’s Divine Worship Missal calls it, a Mass “in time of war or civil disturbance.”)

EXCERPT: "In a beautiful nineteenth century church, with fine stained glass, Anglican patrimony rather takes care of itself. We use the RSV and sing plainsong and decent hymns and it all feels not dissimilar to when I was a Vicar in Nottingham thirty years ago."

EXCERPT: A Lay Conference for members, associates and friends of the Ordinariate in Torquay from 17-19th May 2022. Fr David Lashbrooke asks the question: Why go?