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THE P R TAL
The Portal is the monthly review of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham
March 2020
THE P RTAL
is the monthly review of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham
March 2020 Volume 10 Issue 111
Contents
Page 3 Portal Comment – Will Burton reflects
Page 4 The seeds of the Ordinariate – Joanna Bogle
Page 5 Fake news – fake history – Snapdragon
Page 6 The Liturgy in the Catechism – Fr Matthew Pittam
Page 7 The Chantry Guild of OLW – Lucy Day
Page 8 Old Harlow revisited – Jackie Ottaway and Ronald Crane
Page 10 Thoughts on Newman – Revd Dr Stephen Morgan
Page 11 Our window on the CofE – The Revd Paul Benfield
Page 12 Pastoral Letter from our Ordinary
Page 13 Walsingham and Our Lady – Ronald Crane
Page 14 Finding us at prayer – in England, Scotland and Wales
Page 16 Diaries: The Ordinary and the Ordinariate Deans
Page 17 News from the Ordinariate – around the UK
Page 19 LOGS – Jackie Ottaway and Ronald Crane
Page 20 Aid to the Church in Need – Fionn Shiner
Page 21 The day is now far spent – Book review
Page 23 Imaging Our Lady on our lives – Fr Michael Halsall
Page 24 A Plea to take Laity seriously – Br Robert Augustine
Cover: Walsingham Painting - EWTN Vatican
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Portal Comment
Pope blesses
painting of
Our Lady of Walsingham
Will Burton on the re-dedication of England
O n Wednesday 12 February 2020, after his weekly audience, Pope Francis blessed the “Dowry
Painting” of Our Lady of Walsingham, the Catholic National Shrine dedicated to Mary, the Mother of
God, in Norfolk, England.
Present at the blessing were Cardinal Vincent
Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster, Monsignor John
Armitage, Rector of the Walsingham Shrine, and
Amanda de Pulford, painter of the Dowry Painting. The
painting will be at Walsingham for The Rededication
of England as Mary’s Dowry on 29 March 2020. After
The Rededication, the Dowry Painting will begin a
journey to every Catholic parish in England.
Cardinal Nichols said: “The blessing of the icon of
Our Lady of Walsingham by Pope Francis is a great Photo: EWTN+Vatican
encouragement to us all as we prepare for 29 March
and our act of Rededication. I assured our Holy Father in 2020, you can be a part of the renewal of this nation,
of our prayers and affection and thanked him for his drawing ourselves closer to the will of our loving God,
blessing.” through Mary.
Mgr Armitage said: “Yesterday was a truly blessed The Dowry Painting is by Amanda de Pulford. It is an
day, when the Holy Father blessed the new Dowry icon, made using traditional materials and techniques
Painting in Rome which was presented to him by learned over many years of intensive study. Amanda
Cardinal Nichols. The painting, which will visit every has made icons for many Churches and private
Catholic Church in England, was then taken to the collections, most recently in Canterbury Cathedral.
tomb of St Gregory the Great in St Peter’s Basilica,
the Pope who sent St Augustine to evangelise the Fr John Armitage commissioned the Dowry painting
people of England. Before his tomb we prayed for his after seeing a study for the Crucifixion painted by
intercession to strengthen our faith to continue this Amanda, which moved him, and convinced him this
mission to the people of England.” way of painting could be a part of a tradition of English
Christian art, suitable for the year of Rededication of
The Rededication England as the Dowry of Our Lady.
In 1381, England was dedicated to Mary by King
Richard II and was ‘set apart for her among the nations’. I asked Amanda if prayer were involved in the
This year, the Christians of England are called to make painting. She responded, “Of course. You cannot make
a personal dedication to Mary, taking up her example an image of a holy subject without focusing every
as Christ’s first disciple. scrap of attention on God. The meaning and reality
of the subject reveals itself as you paint. In a sense
History shows us that when the people the Icon prays you, because in the act of devotion
pray and surrender to God’s will for their lives, society necessary to make the image of Him, He imprints His
is transformed. By taking up this personal dedication image on you”.
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The seeds of
Auntie Jo a n
the Ordinariate
Joanna Bogle
Acheery lunch gathering with Ordinariate members
and friends in local pub. Rain pouring down outside, a mood
of relaxed conviviality within. Talk turns to Ordinariate history: just
a short while back we marked the 10th anniversary of Anglicanorum
Coetibus.
na
Pivotal moments in the story might include: Vatican bonds for the
wri tes
II’s declarations on ecumenism and on religious future. This in turn led to the new mood following the
freedom …the visit of Dr Michael Ramsey to Rome in Second Vatican Council – and Saint John Paul built on
the 1970s, and Pope (now Saint) Paul VI giving him his all that with his 1982 visit. But it was clear then that
episcopal ring…and the election of Pope (ditto) John any form of large-scale corporate reunion was simply
Paul II in 1978 and the start of his missionary journeys not possible, given the wide range of theological
around the world. beliefs in Anglicanism. What sort of alternative might
have been offered? Perhaps it is rather a pity that the
“If it had been announced back in 1982 – when Pope concept of the Ordinariate had not then emerged.
John Paul visited Britain – there would have been a
massive response”, mused one member of the group Exactly a decade later, in 1992, the CofE’s vote to
thoughtfully, “We were literally waiting for some ordain women drew a line under any and all notions
initiative of that kind, for some announcement.” of corporate reunion. At that point, John Paul urged
generosity towards Anglican clergy who sought
It’s a powerful thought. Certainly, that dramatic to come into full communion with the Church,
visit to Canterbury, and joint prayer with the AofC in particular by establishing that married former
at the tomb of St Thomas Becket, was a moment of Anglican clergy could apply for ordination. And in
history and central to what came later. But was there a that we can see a further step towards what would
readiness at that time? The CofE hadn’t then ordained eventually become Anglicanorum Coetibus.
women, nor had it seemed to repudiate – as it now
seems to many to have done – some of the basic There has long been an understanding that the
Christian understanding on, for example, marriage concept of the Ordinariate had, as it were, been in a
and sexual morality. While numbers of clergy and laity folder in the files of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger at the
were concerned about the general drift of the CofE, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for some
was there a sense of urgency about things, such as years until it was taken down from the shelf and
would later lead to the formation of Forward in Faith, dusted off to Anglicanorum Coetibus in his pontificate
or the call for a Third Province? as Benedict XVI.
It is difficult now to tell – certainly for this RC, And now here we are. The establishment of the
viewing the situation from outside the Anglican Ordinariate was the final logical step in a journal of
communion. But undoubtedly the seeds of the events. There isn’t going to be any other offer: this is
Ordinariate were, in a sense, sown in the 1980s. There the result of what came before – what happens now
had been various attempts at RC/CofE reunion in, for is simply dependent on the growth and flourishing of
example the Malines Conversations in the first half of what has been established. We are looking ahead and
the 20th century, but these came to nothing – because, have lots to do: evangelism, the urgent spiritual needs
apart from anything else, it was clear that the Anglicans of a secularised and confused Britain.
taking part were in no way typical of the CofE as a whole
and represented only a particular brand of Anglican This year marks 100 years since the birth of Karol
thinking. But things moved on: a further World War Wojtyla, St John Paul II. His journey to the priesthood
tended to emphasise the need for a certain urgency in took him through the invasion of his country, forced
tackling ancient quarrels and building strong Christian
... continued at the foot of page 9 Ø
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ragon Fake news –
fake history
Snapdragon muses on the reformation
and modern liberals in the church
Snapd
A ccording to ‘Snapdragon’s’ Catechism of the Catholic
Church (even the post-Vatican II version), the public admittance of a moral wrong
or old-fashioned sin (as we used to term it) to Portal readers does not constitute a form of
sacramental Confession.
However, at a rare moment of human commented ‘’Foxe is as reliable as a history of the war
weakness recently Snapdragon admits in Afghanistan commissioned by the Taliban.’’
he made the lamentable error of tuning in to
the ‘Today’ programme on the ‘Home Service’. Genuinely impartial Portal readers should try the
Millennials and those slightly older readers may books by more distinguished modern historians,
call this wireless channel ‘Radio 4’, while of those including the Catholic Eamon Duffy. His Stripping of
of Snapdragon’s singularly reactionary views refer to the Altars (1992) and Fire of Faith (2009) are superb.
the parent-company as the ‘Bolshevik Broadcasting
Corporation’. Talking of supressing heresy reminds Snapdragon of
a true-life anecdote hailing back to early 1990s, when
When not pedalling feminist propaganda or the author’s then Anglo-Catholic church allowed
promoting the terrorist enemies of Great Britain and the Right Revd Mervyn Stockwood (1913-1995), the
her allies, this supreme example of ‘ all-that-is-most- former Bishop of Southwark (1956-1980) to preach
hip’ rejoices in ridiculing everything which readers of because of his long-standing connections with the
the Portal would cherish and hold most dear. parish.
However, what really stopped Snapdragon in his Although raised as an orthodox Anglo-Catholic,
tracks (indeed, I would have choked on my glass of the retired bishop had long ago gravitated to the
port if it was not at a slightly early hour!) was an alleged liberal and modernist wing of the Church of England,
historian and professor from one of our sorry modern establishing what was often called then the ‘South
excuses for a university going on about ‘Bloody Bank religion’. He was a fully-committed supporter
Mary’ and repeating the long-ago discredited pseudo- of women’s ordination and his suffragan bishop,
historical canards about the penultimate Catholic John Robinson, infamously wrote Honest to God, a
monarch’s short reign, focusing exclusively on the renowned treatise on modern liberal Anglicanism.
burnings of 280 Protestant heretics. Needless-to-say Bishop Stockwood was not permitted
to concelebrate.
This heavily-biased version of our Island Story
has been described by historians as the Whig Perhaps out of a mischievous and impish sense of
interpretation of modern British history. The Whigs humour, my then parish-priest invited Snapdragon to
of the 17th century (they became the Liberal Party of a splendid lunch at the Vicarage after Mass in honour
the 19th century) saw our recent history as a seamless of our episcopal guest-preacher.
march of ‘progress’ towards secular democracy and the
triumph of Constitutional Monarchy. As part of this, During my time conversing with Mervyn Stockwood,
the Protestant Reformation was vitally necessary and I couldn’t help gently baiting him with the following
it was essential to destroy the Roman Catholic Church words: ‘’Bishop, I’ve always had a soft-spot for the
in this realm, Whigs believed. Spanish Inquisition. Didn’t they have such an effective
way of dealing with heretics?’’
This distorted account of the development of this
kingdom was reinforced by John Foxe’s Acts and The bishop’s reply to me has long since been
Monuments, which was once ordered to be kept in forgotten, undoubtedly shrouded in the alcoholic haze
every Anglican parish church. One recent writer which accompanied the meal!
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The Catechism of the Catholic Church
The Liturgy
in the Catechism
(1066-1075)
Fr Matthew Pittam
Many years ago someone shared a book with me which contains this quote about
the author’s expectation of what would happen when she went to Church. Her gushing enthusiasm
beautifully captures what so many people miss about the Church’s worship,
“A little church on a Sunday morning is a We must never underestimate that the Mass is a
negligible thing. It may be the meekest, the least clear and dynamic expression of God’s new creation,
conspicuous thing. Someone zipping between a moment when God’s will is done on earth as it is
Baltimore’s airport and beltway might pass in heaven. Here the liturgy becomes a moment that
this one, a little stone church drowsing like a anticipates the heavenly Jerusalem when the whole
hen at the corner of Maple and Camp Meade earth is filled with the presence of God, as we see in St
Road. At dawn all is silent, except for the click John’s vision in Revelation chapter 21.
every thirty seconds as the oblivious traffic
light rotates through its cycle. In a few hours, The work of liturgy includes Mass, the celebration
heaven will strike earth like lightning on this of the Sacraments and the Divine Office. Because the
spot. The worshippers in this little building will Mass is the source and summit of our faith, all other
be swept into a divine worship that proceeds liturgies flow from its celebration and are made sense
eternally, grand with seraphim and incense and of in their relationship to it. Other forms of liturgy
God enthroned, “High and lifted up and his train can never be detached from the Mass and it is this
filled the temple” (Isaiah 6:1). The foundations of which roots it in the work of Christ in redeeming all
that temple shake with the voice of angels calling mankind. The Catechism teaches that Liturgy is the
“Holy” to each other, and we will be there, lifting source of life and is the visible sign of communion
our fallible voices in the refrain, an outpost of between us and God,
eternity.” Frederica Matthewes Green
As the work of Christ liturgy is also an action
Often we can lose this vision of what really is of his Church. It makes the Church present and
happening in the Church’s liturgy and fail to appreciate manifests her as the visible sign of the communion
the heavenly powers which are unfolding each time in Christ between God and men. It engages
the faithful gather together to worship God. the faithful in the new life of the community
and involves the “conscious, active, and fruitful
Liturgy literally means work of the people. In participation” of everyone.(CC 1071)
the Church, it is used to describe all our public
worship as it draws the people of God into the work As members of the Ordinariate of Our Lady
of God. It is through the liturgy that people engage of Walsingham, we come with a particular
with the faith and deepen their relationship with God, understanding and charism relating to the work of the
affording them a glimpse of the worship of heaven. The people of God. An appreciation of the importance of
challenge for us as Catholics is to try to be continually good liturgy and a keen awareness of its importance
enchanted by worship and be awed by the presence of are the hallmark of many Ordinarate faithful.
God within this ‘work’. It is not an easy thing to try
to achieve, especially when our familiarity and human This love of liturgy is something important that we
fallibility get in the way. Following the advice of St can offer to the Church in the service of God. Proper
Philip Neri is a good place to begin, “We must pray and full engagement in the liturgy is vital in the battle
incessantly for the gift of perseverance.” against secularism and in the renewal of the Church.
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The Chantry Guild of
Our Lady of Walsingham
Lucy Day reports on this exciting new venture
Fr Ian Hellyer has contacted The Portal about this new initiative. It is a pious association of the faithful
in the Ordinariate to help poor souls in purgatory. It provides for the offering of the Holy Sacrifice of the
mass for the holy souls enrolled in the guild.
Those of us who are ex-Anglicans will remember erection of this guild may be sent to Fr Hellyer with
with fondness the Guild of All Souls. This was cheques made payable to “Ordinariate of Our Lady of
established in 1873 to encourage prayer for the Walsingham Chantry Guild”.
departed. Originally, it was also formed to provide
burial furniture at a time when burial was frequently Fr Hellyer said, “The formation of this guild within
conducted with little respect for the mortal remains the jurisdiction of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of
of the deceased person. Today the GAS provides a Walsingham adds a very important dimension to the
chantry chapel, a daily Anglican Eucharist and care for life of the Ordinariate. Of course, we all pray for the
the sick and dying. departed at the very least at every mass we attend. This
guild will offer a more organised approach to praying
Although in the Catholic Church this sort of guild for the souls of the departed.
is often called a Purgatorial Society, this term is not
familiar to former Anglicans. So the Ordinary asked “It will provide the financial means for the priests
that we call it The Chantry Guild and place Purgatorial of the Ordinariate to receive mass stipends when they
Society in parenthesis. offer the holy sacrifice of the mass for the repose of the
souls of the guild. Perhaps one of the important things
Catholic Canon Law permits for such societies as about the guild is that it means after our own demise
a pious society of the faithful. It will in due course prayer will be offered for us.
need statutes and be erected by the authority of the
Ordinary. For this initial stage of forming the society “This has become an increasing worry for the many
the Ordinary has asked Fr Hellyer to get the guild “off faithful Catholics who currently ask their priest to
the ground”, and not least to see if members of the offer mass for their loved ones, but who wonder who
Ordinariate will respond to its formation. You may will be doing it for them when they die. Perhaps
join the guild as living members to support the work their own children do not have the faith, or they do
and to enrol loved ones departed in the guild. not have close relatives or friends to do this for them.
The guild will therefore provide for this to occur.
Many fear that no one will ask for a mass to be offered
for them once they have died. It is a common fear for O God of the Spirits of all flesh,
many Catholics. The guild addresses this problem with O Jesu, lover of souls,
a practical solution. we recommend unto Thee
the souls of all those Thy servants
Such a guild as this organises members to pray for who have departed with the sign of faith
the holy souls enrolled in the guild, and especially to and sleep the sleep of peace. ...
help provide for the Holy Sacrifice of the mass to be Come to their assistance, all ye Saints of God;
offered for the souls regularly. gain for them deliverance
from their place of punishment;
It is simple: just contact Fr Hellyer at The Chantry meet them, all ye Angels;
Guild of Our Lady of Walsingham, 71 Stott Close, receive these holy souls,
Plymouth, PL3 6HA or email chantry.guild@ and present them before the Lord.
ordinariate.org.uk. A donation of £30 per living Eternal rest give to them, O Lord,
member is suggested. This provides a Triduum of and may perpetual light shine on them.
Mass to be offered. If you wish a novena of mass to May they rest in peace. Amen.
be offered that would be £90. Donations towards the (From St John Henry Newman’s Prayer)
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Old Harlow revisited
Jackie Ottaway and Ronald Crane visit this group in Essex
The Assumption, Old Harlow is a simple, small, yet beautiful church, Post-war but without the
usual drawbacks that often go with contemporary buildings. It is small, but functional and pleasing on
the eye. The Ordinariate group has been there for some time now, but their pastor was elsewhere. This was
not a totally satisfactory state of affairs.
We arrived in time for Sunday Mass. It was beautifully then passes it on to a friend who also passes it on! She
celebrated by the Ordinariate priest, Fr John Corbyn, turns to Geoffrey Kirk first. We suspect she is not the
and the church was pleasantly full with about seventy only one. Snapdragon annoys her. Again we suspect
people. As with most Ordinariate celebrations, we all she is not alone in this.
decamped to the hall for refreshments afterwards.
Yolande is not a member of the
Jacinta Donnehy came to The Ordinariate, but a supporter. Now retired,
Assumption two years ago. She enjoys she worked for a charity, was secretary to
the small and intimate atmosphere. A the editor of the Church Times, then at
retired nurse, she still does voluntary SPCK. At The Assumption, she acts as
work at the local hospital. She told us that Cantor. She has been a Catholic since
she likes Fr Corbyn. “He is down to earth 2013. “It is exciting having Fr John here;
with no airs or graces.” For her, Fr John is a a real answer to prayer, a miracle if you
welcome addition to the parish. “Homilies will.”
are short and to the point with a common
touch and everyday speech.” She admits Jacinta Dennehy Mass and refreshments over, we
that she lapsed from mass for a bit, but, as she said, had a chat with Fr John Corbyn. He is also an old
“When you have a child and a grandchild you have to friend. Fr John is a genial man who many find easy
show an example.” to underestimate. The truth is that he is
extremely capable and a holy man.
Trisha Handorff sings in the choir and
is an Ordinariate member. She is thrilled We told him that he is a breath of fresh
that Fr John has “come back to us now, air to this congregation. Fr John told us of
and it is official. He is lovely.” She joined his predecessor who was here for twenty
the Ordinariate in the second wave, after years and couldn’t go on functioning as
having a “new knee!” the parish priest but he didn’t want to
leave the house. “He has been there for
Simon Bedford is an old friend. He, his twenty years and it’s familiar. I know it’s
wife Lucy and daughter (Elizabeth) appear been challenging for him and for the
at many Ordinariate gatherings. Not only Simon Bedford parish. It has also been a challenge for me
is Simon a scientist by profession, he plays the organ too.
at The Assumption. Faithful and true to the Catholic
Faith as expressed through the Ordinariate, he told us, “Normally when a priest retires he will go and move
away and the people will be able to get him out of
“It is a lot different here now; even the geography their system. Closure! That hasn’t been able to happen.
of the church has changed, and the faith too. People There is a lot of love for him. We have twenty people
are getting used to the change. Fr Michael (Fr John’s on a rota looking after him, cleaning, shopping and a
predecessor) was here for twenty years, so it was little bit of cooking. He is loved and he’s being looked
always going to be different. The whole Ordinariate after and he says mass in the house. It’s fallen into place
Group feels settled now. We had hoped and prayed for gradually, but it’s taken time.”
a long time, now our prayers have been answered.”
Fr Corbyn told us “One of the things I was amazed
We were overjoyed to meet Yolande Clarke at last. about coming here was that it was all ages; there were
We have corresponded with her for some time, but not a lot of young people and a lot of young families. We
actually met. She reads The Portal in hard copy form, haven’t got a Catholic school in the parish. There is
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one in the next-door parish, Our Lady of Fatima, and with the Pope and The Word of the Lord. So that
for the first time for many years, next Sunday there was the second thing. But not everyone will go to
are children coming from Saint Albans school. They groups. Actually, the Sunday homily has to be about
contribute to the lessons or sing a song or something. teaching as well; about expectations and explaining
The head teacher is going to talk about the school the gospel. So we work on that.
and about getting children to the school. A lot of our
children from this parish go to the school. It will be a “Third is the social side of the church. This needs to
way of making the school aware of the church and the build up. One Sunday morning I said, “The McMillan
church aware of the school. Nursing Coffee Morning is coming up;
why don’t we open our doors? We can
“There has been no social life here. They have some coffee. We can have it in the
had tea and coffee after mass but nobody Church Hall. I’ll get some cakes. We can
came. There’s been no fundraising, they didn’t have a donations tin.”
even have a collection at mass. I had never
heard of a Catholic Church that didn’t have Would somebody do
a collection. We have people who had made it? Someone said they would; someone
out standing orders several years ago; it may else said they would help. From after
have been very generous ten years ago, but mass until 12:00 o’clock we made
Trisha Handorff
not now.” £292.00. It was then we said we must
have a social committee to do the social thing.
We commented that the church is obviously loved,
cleaned and cared for. Fr John replied, “Yes; we have “The fourth strand which I wholeheartedly agree
made a few cosmetic changes, nothing very major yet! with is a charity. We are looking at whether it’s food
We did install Our Lady in the church. She had been for the homeless or whether it’s a club for the elderly
by the door, and Newman of course.” and lonely. Personally, I think because some of us
now know a whole lot more about Alzheimer’s than
We noticed that about 80% of the congregation never we did before, perhaps it could be something to do
sang a note, but the little choir certainly with Alzheimer’s or dementia. It could
sang a few. Fr John responded, “I got them be for the actual sufferers or even for
to think about the hymns, because I want the carers so that they can have a bit of
them to sing the hymns we like. But I also respite, a nice cup of tea and come and
want them to sing the old catholic favourites: get a bit of cake in the warmth and just
And also some of the modern stuff which are sit and chat.”
actually quite good. We are getting there but
there is so much to do. Fr John closed our chat by telling
us about The Portal. “It was very
“I read an article in the Catholic press. It important to me in the early days. It was
was about a parish that had been down on Yolande Clarke important to these people too, because
its uppers, like this one. It got a new priest. I was I was travelling from Wickford. It
He built it up. I think his method is good. First of all takes over an hour to get here. Then getting here for
get the liturgy right, that includes singing, and getting four or five people for mass or for evensong and
people who can read to read. Make sure the music is benediction, could have been a bit soul destroying. But
good. Then the teaching. Yes you can have different we got ideas from The Portal. It was good to see what
courses that you can put on and we will. We are going other people were doing.”
to do that during Lent.
We are grateful to Fr Corbyn for his time, and
“It’s a CAFE course and is brilliant, all about Our candour. He is a dear man, and doing a fine job.
Lady, so that comes in with the whole thing about Please make sure you pray for him, and for his lovely
Our Lady’s Dowry, and pondering in our hearts people.
Continued from The Seeds of the Ordinariate ... continued from page 4
labour under a totalitarian regime, and secret training Ordinariate may accomplish over the next years.
in an underground seminary. Looking back to those Chapter by chapter, new bits of the story are being
dramatic moments in Canterbury Cathedral during written. Idle to speculate what the next years might
his Papal visit in 1982 we can, I think, truly see its bring: better just to get on with it, and let the Lord
place in the story of the Ordinariate, and all that the guide us.
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Thoughts on Newman
Family
Correspondence
The Revd Dr Stephen Morgan
The measures taken by the Macao Government to contain and prevent the spread of infection
with the COVID-19 virus has meant that, for the best part of a month, we have all been very largely
quarantined in our homes, venturing out only to buy essentials. Although trying, it hasn’t been without
blessings: the spread of the virus here has been contained (as I write, there have been as many cases in Britain
as there have been in Macao) and long-postponed projects can no longer be avoided.
One such has been correcting proofs for a book delights of email and text were upon us. Unless printed
on Newman that is due out later this year. This has out, e-mails leave only an electronic trail, easily
meant many happy hours with my head in volumes of deleted, and telephone calls no permanent record at all
the Letters and Diaries checking the accuracy of my (although GCHQ and Huawei may know differently!).
footnotes. It isn’t everybody’s idea of relaxation but What this will mean for the historical researchers of
there’s nothing on the telly here worth watching – even the future is anyone’s guess, but it is unlikely that any
if there were, I don’t have a television! of us will, like Newman, leave a testament to our love
for our family that will stretch over nearly ninety years
As I have been going through the Letters and Diaries, and – with many other letters – thirty-two hardback
I am continually struck by the frequency, tenderness volumes.
and solicitude of the correspondence between
Newman and both his mother – until her death in Of course, it isn’t the historians who I am most
1836 – and his sisters. Letters to his two brothers are concerned about, but our friends and families. My
less frequent but, at least in the first half of his life and own children don’t have the paper-trail of my mother’s
in the last quarter, they display similar, although more letters to me at Dartmouth or the flimsy blue aerogram
brotherly, characteristics. letters that she sent when I was at sea or living in Hong
Kong in the mid-1990s, that sit in a small archive box
Newman once observed that ‘the Spirit of a Man is here by my desk. So this call is as much to me (and
best recaptured in his letters’ and, if that is so, at least them), as it is to you. Even at their most distant – and
so far as his family letters are concerned, he was a man Newman’s brother, Charles was so eccentric that it was
whose spirit and practice of correspondence we might impossible for there not to be some distance between
all reasonably emulate. them at times – the Newman family kept up their
correspondence and had a physical, written record
We live in the age of telecommunications. In my of their affection, close at hand. My parents will have
childhood and adolescence, telephone calls were been married 56 years on 20th March. I must go now
considered to be a costly means of communication – and write a letter to each of them and then break the
at least those that strayed outside the bounds of the curfew to commit it to the tender care of the Macau
local exchanges. Trunk calls were reserved for special Post Office.
arrangements or urgent news and international calls,
with the unsettling two second delay, to relatives You are invited to join the
in Australia, Canada and Kenya, a once a year Rosary Fellowship
extravagance. We still relied upon letters, postcards
and, very occasionally, telegrams. For full details and an application form
please contact Br Robert Augustine at:
All of these made their demands upon our abilities to The Retreat of Our Lady and St Benedict,
say what we wanted to say, in a form appropriate to the 63a Wells Road, Walsingham NR22 6DX
medium. Then came the internet – or the information rosaryfellowship@gmail.com 01328 820130
super-highway as it was first quaintly named. The Please could clergy bring this initiative to the attention of any of
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The CofE Our window
General Synod on the CofE
The Revd Paul Benfield keeps us up to date
General Synod met in London from Monday 10th to Thursday 13th February. Many members
had difficult and unusual journeys due to Storm Ciara. I was due to travel down on the Sunday night but
all trains were cancelled so I delayed until Monday morning.
I travelled on a bus, a train, walked between stations education. The latter was unusual in that the Revision
in Bradford and took two further trains, but just Committee had rejected a submission from the
managed to arrive in time for the start of business. The Dean of Arches (the senior ecclesiastical judge)
chamber gradually filled up during the afternoon. concerning the constitution of boards of education.
He objected to the possibility that these could be
A few weeks before Synod, the House of Bishops unincorporated associations, which is not a good
had issued a pastoral statement which it felt was governance model for such charities.
necessitated by the introduction of civil partnerships
between opposite sex couples – previously they Despite an amendment on the floor of Synod, this
had been available only to couples of the same sex, but possibility was retained in the draft measure, which
a court judgement had found that this was unjust and raised questions in some people’s minds about the
discriminatory. effectiveness of the scrutiny of our legislation.
In the statement, the bishops affirmed the Church’s There were the usual crop of ‘apple pie and
teaching that sexual relations should take place motherhood’ motions which it was impossible to vote
only between men and women who were married against, but many of which will probably have little
and that those in civil partnerships (of whatever type) effect in the long run. It is worth remembering that
should remain celibate. Synod resolutions do not have the binding force of law
unless they are enshrined in legislation.
The Statement caused much anger in liberal circles,
coming so soon before the expected publication of There has been much publicity that Synod passed
the ‘Living in Love and Faith’ documents on sexuality a motion that all churches and parishes should be
and relationships being prepared by the bishops. carbon neutral by 2030 (instead of 2045 as in the
original motion, before amendment from a Bristol
The Archbishops apologised for the hurt the member after a vote by the Bristol Diocesan Synod).
statement had caused, but did not apologise for the This is unachievable without vast expenditure and so
statement itself. This led to individual bishops issuing the motion will probably join those many which are
various statements, some calling for the withdrawal simply expressions of pious hope.
of the statement. It seems that though it came before
the House of Bishops, it was deemed business and its At the end of Synod there were the customary
publication caught some unawares. farewells to departing members and staff. These
included the Secretary of the Church Commissioners
It was inevitable, therefore, that there should be and the Dean of Arches (mentioned earlier) who is
many questions on the matter at Question Time on the known as the Auditor the Chancery Court of York in
first evening. The Bishop of Newcastle said in answer the Northern Province.
to a supplementary question that there was not yet any
change in the Church’s teaching, which many people Finally, the Archbishop of Canterbury paid tribute
found interesting. However, since the answer was to the Archbishop of York who will have retired by the
unscripted it may not have been as significant as some time Synod meets in York in July. Archbishop Sentamu
thought. was in New Zealand for the whole of this group of
sessions and so he did not have an opportunity for a
Synod completed the revision stages of major reply, which is probably just as well!
legislation on cathedrals and diocesan boards ofTHE P RTAL March 2020 Page 12
Pastoral Letter
from Mgr Keith Newton,
our Ordinary
February 2019
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ be implemented. It is a document which will need to
be referred to often, so that we might have a shared
It was a remarkable few months for the Ordinariate vision for the Ordinariate for the future. Support and
of Our Lady of Walsingham at the end of last year. advice will be available for any initiatives the groups
Our patron, St John Henry Newman, was canonised undertake. I encourage you all to engage with your
in St Peter’s Square in October when a large number priests, in due course, to see how your group, mission
of our priests and people were able to be present. The or parish can play its part in the exciting adventure of
Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith marked the developing the Ordinariate in the future.
10th anniversary of the promulgation of the Apostolic
Constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus, which brought We have been given a particular mission by our
the Personal Ordinariates into existence, with a Holy Father Benedict XVI and by Pope Francis who has
successful academic symposium in Rome. continued to encourage the work of the Ordinariates; it
will not always be easy but we know that God will give
Back home we celebrated the anniversary with a us the resources we need to persevere. It is particularly
splendid Mass at Precious Blood in Borough where appropriate that we put our trust and ask for the
Cardinal Nichols gave a most encouraging homily. It prayers of our patroness, Our Lady of Walsingham, in
was wonderful to look back and celebrate what has all that we do as we look forward to the future.
happened over the past ten or more years to bring
us to where we are today – communities in the Full It is fortuitous then that on the 29th March, following
Communion of the Catholic Church celebrating our the example of King Richard II in 1381 and encouraged
distinctive heritage. by the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales,
we will rededicate England and more importantly
It is however, more important to look forward, to ourselves as the ‘Dowry of Mary’ - set aside as a gift to
what we will do in the coming years to secure and our Lady. I hope all our groups, whether separately or
advance our mission within the Catholic Church in within a diocesan parish, will take part in this great act
England and Wales. There will be further celebrations of dedication.
when we mark the 10th Anniversary of the beginnings
of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in 2021. To help us all to do this we are encouraged from Friday
Much has been achieved but there is also much work 21st February to prepare ourselves by taking part in
still to do. To guide our efforts over the next five to ten a personal consecration to Jesus through Mary using
years I asked a small group, comprising both clergy material produced by St Louis de Montfort called 33
and laity, to consider our strategy for the next stage of days to Morning Glory. This material is available from
our mission. your priests or from the Shrine at Walsingham. I wish
you and your families every blessing as we prepare for
Moving forward from the report Growing Up, this rededication next month.
Growing Out, which was published in 2015, the group
has produced a Vision Document called Our Mission Yours in Christ
and our Calling. It was launched on 9th November at
our celebration of the tenth anniversary. Our priests Monsignor Keith Newton
discussed it earlier this month at our plenary meeting Ordinary
and copies have been sent to Group pastors and
members of the Pastoral Council. I have asked them to 11th February 2020
read this vision document and, once digested, to meet The Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes
with members of their group to consider how it mightTHE P RTAL March 2020 Page 13
Walsingham and Our Lady
Ronald Crane tells us his personal journey
For most of us in the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, that little town in Norfolk is where
we learned the Catholic Faith, or where that faith was fanned into a living flame. For my part, I well
remember my first visit to the Holy House. I was seventeen years of age. Having been brought up to attend
church every Sunday at a real protestant CofE church, the whole Walsingham experience overwhelmed me.
The twinkly lights, the smell of incense, the statues, The title Dowry of Mary for England comes from
the Holy House itself, and especially the image of Our the Medieval period. Devotion to Our Lady in
Lady was way beyond anything I had associated with England was particularly strong at the time. It was held
the faith up to that point. I was captivated. that England belonged in some special way to Mary.
She was seen as the country’s “protectress”. Through
It was not long before I returned. I bought every her powers of intercession she acted as the country’s
book and pamphlet about the place that I could find. defender or guardian.
About that time I moved to a town where the church
that asked for my services in the choir was decidedly The title’s precise origin is unknown, but it was
“Anglo-Catholic”. I joyed in the deep, warm waters of widespread by the middle of the fourteenth century.
the Catholic faith. Suddenly all I had been told was Sometime about 1350 it was said, “It is commonly said
wrong, turned out to be right! Symbols, candles, that the land of England is the Virgin’s dowry”. Some
vestments, statues and the sacraments – of course – all fifty years later, Archbishop Thomas Arundel, when
burst into life. It was all because of a chance visit to the discussing Mary and the Incarnation, wrote that
Holy House of Walsingham. “we English, being ... her own Dowry, as we are
commonly called, ought to surpass others in the
Over the next years, Walsingham continued to fervour of our praises and devotions”.
influence my growth in faith. The faith was discovered
there, it was also nurtured there. Although my first The Archbishop’s letter suggests that at the time of
confession was not at Walsingham, it was where I often his writing the title was already in common use.
went to that most liberating of sacraments.
By the reign of Henry V, the title was in common
Now the Bishops of England and Wales are going use, according to the chronicler Thomas Elmham,
to re-dedicate the country as the Dowry of Our Lady. English priests sought the intercession of “the Virgin,
Perhaps the most famous depiction of this dedication protectress of her dower” on the eve of the Battle of
is the Wilton Diptych. It is a small, portable, altarpiece, Agincourt.
at present housed in the National Gallery. One of a
handful of English panel paintings to have survived After the English Reformation, the idea that
from the Middle Ages. England enjoyed a special relationship with Mary
became an important aspect of recusant Catholic
It was made for Richard II, King of England from spirituality. The residents at the English
1377 to 1399, in the last five years of his life. It combines College in Valladolid, Spain, owned a painting which
religious and secular imagery to embody his personal had the description Anglia dos Mariae, “England,
conception of kingship. On the inside the King is Mary’s dowry”.
presented to the Virgin and Christ Child by Edmund
and Edward the Confessor, England’s patron saints, as Pope Leo XIII referred to England’s association
well as his personal patron, John the Baptist. with the title in 1893. Addressing a group of Catholic
pilgrims from England in Rome, he spoke of “the
Richard holds out his hands to give or receive the wonderful filial love which burnt within the heart of
standard with the red and white cross, the arms your forefathers towards the great Mother of God ... to
of Saint George. Christ raises his hand to bless the whose service they consecrated themselves with such
standard and with it, Richard’s rule. Richard’s emblem abundant proofs of devotion, that the kingdom itself
of a white hart, or stag, is shown on the outside, and as acquired the singular and highly honourable title of
badges worn by the host of angels. The King adopted ‘Mary’s Dowry.’”
this symbol from his mother.THE P RTAL March 2020 Page 14
Ordinariate Groups
Where to find us at prayer in England, Scotland and Wales
Birmingham St Margaret Mary, 59 Perry Contact: Fr Fr David Lashbrooke: 07427 107304 -
Common Road, Birmingham B23 7AB Mass: Sunday: cornwall@ordinariate.org.uk
10am. Contact: Fr Simon Ellis: 0121 373 0069 -
birmingham@ordinariate.org.uk COVENTRY The Precious Blood of Our Lord
& All Souls, Kingsland Avenue, Earlsdon, Coventry
BLACK COUNTRY Our Lady of Perpetual CV5 8DX Mass: 11.15am (Solemn) Contact: Fr
Succour, Cannock Road, Wolverhampton, WV10 8PG Paul Burch: 02476 674161 - paul.burch@ordinariate.
Mass: 3rd Sunday of the month: 12 noon (followed org.uk
by refreshments), also on Wed 10am Contact: Fr
John Greatbatch: 07799 078164 - frjohn2256@gmail. Croydon At the moment the Croydon Group
com - black.country@ordinariate.org.uk does not have any Ordinariate Masses, but it is
hoped thinks might begin again soon - for further
BOURNEMOUTH St Thomas More, Exton information Contact: Jackie Brooks: 0208 777
Road, Bournemouth BH6 5QG Mass: Sunday: 11.15am 6426 - jaxprint@btinternet.com
and Wed: 10.30am Contact: Fr Darryl Jordan:
01202 485588 - bournemouth@ordinariate.org.uk Darlington St Osmund, Main Road,
Gainford, County Durham DL2 3DZ Mass: Sundays
Bristol St Joseph, Camp Road, Weston-super- 9.30am Parish Mass, 11.30am Solemn Mass; Mon 12
Mare BS23 2EN Mass: 2nd Sunday of the month 12 noon; Tues 10am; Wed 10am; Thurs 10am; Fri 7pm;
noon (Divine Worship), followed by shared lunch Sat 10am, Holydays 7pm. Confessions after Mass
and Benediction at 2:30pm (subject to change in the on Thurs, Fri, Sat. Contact: Fr Ian Grieves, PP:
summer months) Contact: Deacon James Patrick: 01325 730191 - darlington@ordinariate.org.uk - www.
bristol@ordinariate.org.uk darlingtonordinariate.weebly.com
BUCKFAST St Mary’s Abbey, Buckfast TQ11 DEAL St John the Evangelist, St Richard’s Road,
0EE Mass: Sunday 2pm (Divine Worship) followed Mongeham, Deal, Kent CT14 9LD Mass: Sunday:
by Tea/Coffee - Mass usually in St Michael’s Chapel, 11am, 6pm Evensong Contact: Fr Christopher
plenty of parking, restaurant on site, also bookshop Lindlar: 01304 374870 or 07710 090195 - c.lindlar@
and monastic produce for sale. Contact: Fr Ian btinternet.com or deal@ordinariate.org.uk
Hellyer: 01752 600054 - ian@hellyer.org
DERBY/NOTTINGHAM St John the
CHELMSFORD Blessed Sacrament, 116 Evangelist, Midland Road, Stapleford, Nottingham,
Melbourne Avenue, Chelmsford CM1 2DU Mass: Notts NG9 7BT Mass: 1st Sunday of the month: 11am St
Sunday: 9.30am and 11.30am, (on 1st Sunday of Paul, Lenton Boulevard, Nottingham NG7 2BY Mass:
every Sunday: 6pm (Divine Worship). Contact: Fr
the month, specifically Ordinariate), also on Mon
to Sat at 9.15am with RC community Contact: Christopher Cann: 01889 569579 - derby-nottingham@
chelmsford@ordinariate.org.uk ordinariate.org.uk, Fr Peter Peterken: 01332 766285 -
peter.peterken@ntlworld.com, Fr David Jones: 01162
CHICHESTER St Richard, Cawley Road 302244 charlie75845@yahoo.com
Chichester PO19 1XB Mass: Saturday 4.15pm Sung/
Solemn (Divine Worship) Contact: Fr Graham Eastbourne St Agnes, 6 Whitley Road BN22
Smith: 07710 328685 - fr.graham.smith@gmail.com 8NJ Mass: Sunday: 4pm (Divine Worship) Our Lady
of Ransom, Grange Road BN21 4EU Mass: Mon:
COLCHESTER St John Payne, Blackthorn 7:30pm (Divine Worship) Christ the King, Princes
Avenue, Greenstead CO4 3QD Mass: 3rd Sunday Road BN23 6HT Mass: Thur 8pm (Divine Worship)
of the month: 4pm Contact: Fr Jon Ravensdale: Contact: Fr Neil Chatfield: 07718 123304 - neil.
01206 870460 - sjpchurch@btinternet.com chatfield@eastbourneordinariate.org.uk Fr Thomas
Mason - thomas.mason@eastbourneordinariate.org.uk
CORNWALL St Augustine of Hippo, St Austell, - www.eastbourneordinariate.org.uk
PL25 4RA Mass: Sunday: 5pm, also on Wed 7pm ØTHE P RTAL March 2020 Page 15
FOLKESTONE Our Lady Help of Christians MAIDSTONE Chapel of Our Lady, 37a,
41 Guildhall Street, Folkestone, Kent CT20 1EF Barming Road, Wateringbury, Maidstone, Kent ME18
Mass: Sunday: 11am (with parish) Contact: Fr 5BD Mass: Sunday 11am (Divine Worship).
Stephen Bould (Group Pastor), Fr James Houghton - Contact: Fr Ed Tomlinson: 01892 725009
folkestone@ordinariate.org.uk maidstone@ordinariate.org uk
HARLOW The Assumption of Our Lady, Manchester St Margaret Mary, St Margaret’s
Mulberry Green, Old Harlow, Essex CM17 0HA Mass: Road, New Moston M40 0JE Mass: Sunday: 10.30am
Sunday: 10am and 6pm, Evensong and Benediction (Divine Worship) Mass during the week please
5pm (last Sunday of month) Contact: Fr John check the Sunday notices on the website Contact:
Corbyn: 01279 429388 - john.corbyn@btinternet.com Fr Andrew Starkie: 0161 681 1651 - manchester@
ordinariate.org.uk - www.ordinariatemcr.com
HEMEL HEMPSTEAD St Mark’s, Hollybush
Lane, Hemel Hempstead HP1 2PH Mass: Sunday: NORTHAMPTON Our Lady of the Sacred
8.45am, Wed: 7.45pm Contact: Fr Simon Chinery: Heart, 82 Knox Road, Wellingborough NN8 1JA
07971 523008 - hemel.hempstead@ordinariate.org.uk Mass: First Saturday of the month: 6pm (Sung Mass)
Contact: Mgr John Broadhurst: 01933 674614 -
ISLE OF WIGHT St David’s, Connaught frjohnbroadhurst@btinternet.com
Road, East Cowes PO32 6DP MASS: every Saturday:
5pm (Vigil Mass - Divine Worship). CONTACT: OXFORD Holy Rood, Abingdon Road, Oxford
Fr Jonathan Redvers Harris: 01983 292726 - OX1 4LD Mass: Saturday (of Sunday) 5pm (Divine
frjonathanrh@btinternet.com Worship), Sunday 11.15pm, Wed 9am, Thu 7.30pm
(Divine Worship), 8pm Adoration & Confessions,
Leytonstone/Wanstead St John 9.40pm Compline and Benediction, Fri 12.30pm
Vianney, Clayhall, Ilford IG5 0JB MASS: Sunday: 10am (Latin), Sat 9am Contact: Fr Daniel Lloyd: 01865
(Solemn Mass), 12 noon (last Sun of month Solemn Mass, 437066 - daniel.lloyd@ordinariate.org.uk or Mgr
Divine Worship) 4:30pm (Exposition), 5pm (Low); Andrew Burnham: 01235 835038 - andrew.burnham@
Daily (except Mon) 8:30am (Exposition) 9am (Mass); ordinariate.org.uk - www.thamesisis.org.uk
Holy Days 9am (Low), 8pm (Solemn); Confessions: Sat
10am or by appointment. CONTACT: Fr Rob Page: PORTSMOUTH St Agatha, Cascades Approach,
020 8550 4540 - clayhall@dioceseofbrentwood.org Portsmouth PO1 4RJ MASS: Sunday 11am (Solemn),
Mon, Fri (Requiem) and Sat 11am, Contact: info@
LONDON, Central Our Lady of the stagathaschurch.co.uk - www.stagathaschurch.co.uk
Assumption and St Gregory, Warwick Street,
London W1B 5LZ (Nearest tube: Piccadilly) Mass: READING St James, Abbey Ruins, Forbury Road,
Sunday: 10.30am Solemn Mass with choir (Divine Reading, Berkshire RG1 3HW (next to old Reading Gaol)
Worship), Weekdays: 8am and 12.45pm (Novus Ordo Mass: Sunday: 9.15am. Contact: Fr David Elliott:
in English), Feasts and Solemnities as advertised. 07973 241424 - reading@ordinariate.org.uk
Contact: Fr Mark Elliott-Smith 07815 320761 -
markelliottsmith@rcdow.org.uk SALISBURY Most Holy Redeemer, Fortherby
Crescent, Bishopdown, Salisbury, Wiltshire SP1 3EG
LONDON, South Most Precious Blood, Mass: Sunday: 11am, 6pm Evensong and Benediction
O’Meara Street, The Borough, London SE1 1TE Mass: (2nd Sunday), Wed: 7pm (in St Osmund’s, Exeter
Sunday: 8.30am, 11am; Mon-Fri 1.05pm, Thur (term Street, Salisbury SP1 2SF) Contact: Fr Jonathan
time) 6.30pm (Divine Worship); Walsingham Creer: 07724 896579 - jonathan.creer@hotmail.co.uk
Mass: 1st Sat of the month 10am (Divine Worship); or salisbury@ordinariate.org.uk
Holy Days: (additional) 6.30pm (Divine Worship);
Evensong: Thur 6pm (term time); Confessions: Sun Southend St Peter’s Eastwood, 59 Eastwood
10.30am, Mon-Fri 12.30pm Contact: Fr Christopher Road North, Leigh on Sea SS9 4BX Mass: Sunday: 10.15am
Pearson 0207 407 3951 - parish@preciousblood.org.uk (said 8:30am and 6pm), 1st Sunday: 12noon (Divine
- www.preciousblood.org.uk Worship), Mon-Sat (except Tues) 9:30am followed
by Rosary, Thur 7:30pm (check website), Confession:
LONDON, WALTHAMSTOW Christ the Sat 10am Contact: Fr Jeffrey Woolnough (Group
King, 455 Chingford Road, Chingford, E4 8SP Mass: Pastor): 01702 525323, 07956 801381 - fatherjeffw@
Sunday: 11am Contact: Fr David Waller: 020 8527 gmail.com, Fr Bob White: 01268 543910 - pilgrimclub@
4519 - walthamstow.south@ordinariate.org.uk waitrose.com, Deacon Richard Cerson: 07910 388795 ØTHE P RTAL March 2020 Page 16
- rcerson@gmail.com - www.stpetereastwood.org www. INVERNESS Royal Northern Infirmary
jeffwoolnougholw.blogspot.co.uk Chapel, Ness Walk, Inverness IV3 5SF Mass: Sunday:
11.30am (Divine Worship) Mid-week: Tues,
TorbaY The Personal Parish and Church Thurs, Feast Days: 11.15am (Divine Worship) please
of Our Lady of Walsingham with St Cuthbert check www.ordinariate.scot for time and location
Mayne, Old Mill Road (junc of Ashfield Road), ContactS: Fr Len Black: 01463 235597 - fr.len@
Chelston TQ2 6HJ Mass (Divine Worship): Sunday: ordinariate.scot, Fr Cameron Macdonald: 01663
10am, Mon: 12 noon, Tues: Adoration 5pm, Mass 6pm, 453867 - nairn@ordinariate.scot
Wed: 12 noon followed by lunch, Thurs: 10am, Fri:
Adoration 5pm, Mass 6pm, Sat: 10am Contact: Fr Whithorn St Martin and St Ninian,
David Lashbrooke: 07427 107304 - david.lashbrooke@ George Street, Whithorn DG8 8PZ Mass: Tuesday:
ordinariate.org.uk - www.ourladyofwalsingham.com 11am (Divine Worship), Sat 5pm (with parish)
Contact: Fr Simon Beveridge: 01988 850786 -
WALSINGHAM Dowry House Chapel, 47-49 whithorn@ordinariate.scot
High Street, Walsingham, Norfolk NR22 6BZ Mass:
1st Sunday: 3pm (Divine Worship) Contact: Fr NAIRN St Mary, 7 Academy Street, Nairn IV12
Gordon Adam: 01553 777428 - gordonadam1962@ 4RJ Mass: 1st Monday: 10am (Divine Worship)
btinternet.com Dcn Shaun Morrison: 07880 600094 - Contact: Fr Cameron Macdonald: 01667 453867 -
shaunmorrison1975@btinternet.com nairn@ordinariate.scot
SCOTLAND - www.ordinariate.scot Wales: South East Ss Basil & Gwladys,
Edinburgh St Columba, 9 Upper Gray St, Tregwilym Road, Rogerstone, Newport NP10 9DW
Edinburgh EH9 1SN Mass: 2nd Sundays: 2.30pm Mass: Sunday: 11.30am (Divine Worship)
(Divine Worship) Contact: Fr Len Black: 01463 Contact: Fr Bernard Sixtus: 02920 362599 or 07720
235597 - fr.len@ordinariate.scot 272137 - wales@ordinariate.org.uk - www.ordinariate.
org.uk/groups/wales-se.php
Updates: email us at info@portalmag.co.uk
Ordinariate Diaries – March 2020
The Ordinary: The Rt Revd Mgr Keith Newton
The Presbytery, 24 Golden Square, London W1F 9JR Tel: 020 7440 5750
Email: keith.newton@ordinariate.org.uk Website: www.ordinariate.org.uk
15 1030 Mass and institution of Lector, St Margaret Mary, New Moston, April
Manchester
2 1130 Ordinariate Chrism Mass, Our Lady of the Assumption Warwick
17 1030 Department of Dialogue and Unity, Ukrainian Catholic Chancery Street, London
19 1100 Episcopal Ordination of Canon David Oakley, The Cathedral Church 5 1030 Palm Sunday Liturgy, Our Lady of the Assumption Warwick Street,
of St Mary and St Thomas, Northampton London
21 10.30 Pastoral Council, Golden Square, London 8 1330 Formation Committee, Golden Square, London
29 1030 Rededication of England as Mary’s Dowry, Our Lady of the
Assumption Warwick Street, London
The Ordinariate Deans
Midlands & the North The South West & Wales South East & Scotland
Fr Andrew Starkie 0161 681 1651 Fr David Lashbrooke 01803 391703 Fr David Waller 02085 274519
andrew.starkie@ordinariate.org.uk david.lashbrooke@ordinariate.org.uk david.waller@ordinariate.org.uk
3 Deans’ Meeting 10 Meeting of Ordinariate Clergy in Diocesese
7 Topsham of Brentwood - Eastwood
no Ordinariate diary available this month
8 Bournemouth Mission & IOW Mission 13 Meeting with Maidstone Group
15 Cornwall Mission 18 Safeguarding meeting of Catholic Diocesan
Trustees and Charity Commission - Reading
21 Pastoral Council
21 Pastoral Council - Warwick Street
24 Deans’ Meeting
24 Meeting with Episcopal Vicars - Allen HallTHE P RTAL March 2020 Page 17
News from the Ordinariate
Introducing … Lisa Green
My name is Lisa Green and I am Mgr Keith
Newton’s new Secretary. As many of you will
have contact with me, I thought you might like to
House. My husband works at the Apostleship of the
Sea and is about to start a new job with the Jesuits. He,
and my three oldest children, are organists.
know something about me.
Amongst many things I have Irish roots and went to
Originally from Ealing, I attended Ealing Abbey World Families Day in Ireland in 2018. I write articles
until my marriage, when I crossed the River to Brixton, on pro-life issues, inspired to do so when my fifth child
where I now attend Our Lady of the Rosary. I have six was diagnosed with Edwards Syndrome and lived for
children, aged from 5 to 20, and the whole family are nine months: www.raphael-green.muchloved.com
of the Neo-Catechumenal Way – not stereotypical
members. I studied theology at Digby Stuart College I look forward to meeting and speaking with you as
and worked at Premier Radio, SPCK and HarperCollins I take up my new job. I am normally available from
Religious before having my children. I have also 9.30am to 2.45pm, Tuesday to Thursday.
worked at Reception at Westminster Cathedral Clergy
Restoration continues at St Agatha’s
Fr Maunder, continues
the work of restoring and
improving the church. The new St
The decoration of the reredos
commemorates the vision of Pope
Benedict XVI in establishing
Agatha Picture is now in place, the Ordinariate of Our Lady of
painted in the baroque style. Walsingham. The Holy Father is
Here is Father’s description: “The shown kneeling in prayer with his
Blessed Virgin holding forth a scroll hands clasped together holding a
[Anglicanorum coetibus] whilst St rosary. He is wearing a white cope
Agatha beckons towards Benedict with a gold embroidered orphrey and
XVI, who, kneeling, is vested in a matching hood.
cloth-of-gold cope with the triple
crown placed to one side. Below, The vestment was made by
separated by putti and appropriate Anglican nuns of the Community
clouds, the first four priests of St of St Denys, Warminster. Nuns from
Agatha’s: Fr Linklater, Fr Dolling, Fr that community served at S Agatha’s
Tremenheere, and Fr Coles; kneel, eyes heavenward, in the pre war years. A ribbon, representing prayer, is
offering prayer for unity with the Holy See.” carried by cherubs high up towards Our Lady who is
looking down to Pope Benedict. In her hand she holds
Background The reredos was designed by Martin a scroll - Anglicanorum coetibus which she offers to
Travers in 1936 as part of a commission to transform the Holy Father.
the interior of St Matthew, New Kent Road, London,
from an 1840’s gothic structure into a Roman basilica. By the side of Our Lady is St Agatha, who beckons
The reredos was placed across the cord of the apse and Our Lady’s attention to St Agatha’s Church which is
decorated with a gold finish. The complete scheme was seen rising through the clouds. Above is Mt Etna,
never finished and in the post war years the church Sicily, site of St Agatha’s martyrdom whilst above 21
gradually declined. The reredos was removed from St stars illuminate the sky, a reminder of the 21 Anglican
Matthew’s by the St Agatha’s Trust in the 1980’s : St priests in 1928, in London who held out against the
Matthew’s was later demolished. order to remove Tabernacles from their churches Ø
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Cost: £5 (inc P&P) - cheques payable to: Ordinariate OLW the Badges: £4 each - Cufflinks: £12 (pair)
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