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This week we hear about the life of our Saint of the Month St Thomas Aquinas, Ronald Crane reflects from the book of Nehimiah and our Ordinary sends a message to the lay faithful, and we mark the week of prayer for Christian Unity by listening to "O thou who at thy Eucharist didst pray."

Both Divine Worship liturgical books had been out of stock for some years, but will be released by Catholic Truth Society in updated form in the first part of 2022.

Catholic pro-life marchers attending this year’s “Ordinariate Mass before the March” will be at St. Luke’s Catholic Church new permanent location in Oxon Hill, MD and then metro together on the Green Line to the March for Life rally.

This week we learn a little about the 22 Catholic missionaries murdered in 2021. Ronald Crane reflects on the Gospel at Mass, we have an obituary to Fr Peter Clarke and listen to the Choir of St John's college Cambridge sing "Behold the Great Creator Makes."

The Ordinariate can find in the Methodist tradition’s Revivals and Conferences an opportunity to gather with fellow Christians to share ideas and enthusiasm for spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

EXCERPT: Really, this liturgy is stunningly beautiful, and if you haven’t seen it before you should find a way to attend one. If there’s one thing that we might agree the Anglicans have done well, it’s preservation of the liturgy (at least, the “high church” or “Anglo-Catholics” have). I recall the first time I discovered the Anglican Use through a video on YouTube that an Ordinariate parish used for promotional purposes on their website. The priest described their liturgy as “where the sacred meets Elizabethan English.” Much of what is sacred about the Tridentine Mass is packed into it, but it’s celebrated in English.

EXCEPRT: There are parishes out there that are seeing extraordinary growth by celebrating the majesty and beauty of the Mass in a reverent, joyful way. Some do so using the Ordinary Form (aka the Novus Ordo), while others celebrate using different forms of approved liturgical rites. One such parish is Our Lady of the Atonement (OLA) in San Antonio, Texas. OLA was the first “Anglican Use” parish erected under the 1980 Pastoral Provision proclaimed by Pope John Paul II allowing former (mostly) Episcopalians to form parishes within existing U.S. dioceses.

Dominican Father Aidan Nichols' book, published a year before Anglicanorum Coetibus in 2008, has enormous relevance for Anglicans and Catholics, especially in the Ordinariate, concerned about the reconversion of England to Jesus Christ.    

The Portal magazine is the monthly review of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. This is the Jan. 2022 edition.

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.