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Our Lady of Walsingham, pray for us.
Blessed John Henry Newman, pray for us.
Blessed John Henry
Newman Fund
The Catholic League is now accepting donations towards the foundation of the Ordinariate through the Blessed John Henry Newman Fund.
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All monies received by the Newman Fund will be donated to the Ordinary. The Newman Fund will close once the Ordinariate's own systems for managing donations are in place.
Eternal Father, we place before you the project of forming the Personal Ordinariates for Anglicans seeking full communion with the Catholic Church.
We thank you for this initiative of Pope Benedict XVI, and we ask that, through the Holy Spirit,
the Ordinariates may become:
families of charity, peace and the service of the poor, centres for Christian unity and reconciliation, communities that welcome and evangelize, teaching the Faith in all its fullness, celebrating the liturgy and sacraments with prayerful reverence and maintaining a distinctive patrimony of Christian faith and culture.
Drawing on that heritage we pray:
Go before us, O Lord,
in all our doings
with thy most gracious favour,
and further us
with thy continual help;
that in all our works, begun,
continued and ended in thee,
we may glorify thy holy name,
and finally by thy mercy
obtain everlasting life;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
Our Lady of Walsingham:
Pray for us as we claim
your motherly care.
Saint Therese of the Infant Jesus:
Pray for us as we place this
work under your patronage.
Blessed John Henry Newman:
Pray that Christ’s Heart
may speak unto our hearts.
Saints & Martyrs of England,
Wales, Scotland & Ireland:
Pray for us and accompany
us on our pilgrim way.
Elena Curti: What will the ex-Anglicans bring with them?
19 04 2011Elena Curti writes on the Tablet blog:
This image showing the leader of the British ordinariate, Mgr Keith Newton, receiving a former Anglican into the Catholic Church last night, will be a familiar sight at a number of cathedrals this week. Mgr Newton and the other former Anglican bishops who have joined the Catholic Church will be busy in the coming days confirming some of the estimated 1,000 laity and clergy joining the ordinariate.
These new Catholics will give a huge boost to the numbers of adults who are received into the Church at this time of year after doing the RCIA course. It is a welcome boost at a time when the general trend for church attendance continues on a downward path. The latest evidence is contained in a study we report on in our Easter issue that suggests Catholic congregations will shrink by a quarter over the next 20 years.
So the big question is will the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham reinvigorate the Catholic Church? Are we seeing a trickle that will turn to a flood of traditional Anglicans bound for Rome? And what influence will these new faithful have on Catholic life and worship?
Since Ash Wednesday those bound for the ordinariate have been attending Mass in their local Catholic churches, but once the first wave of their clergy is ordained at Pentecost they will have their own Masses. Some have voiced the view that the ordinariate will become a sort of ghetto where Anglican patrimony will be a mark of difference and separation. Others believe Rome sees the ordinariate as marking the start of the long-prayed-for conversion of England. Under this scenario the former Anglicans will introduce (or should it be re-introduce) cradle Catholics to the riches of their worship. In addition as zealous converts they will remind them of the importance of strict obedience to the magisterium. Pope Benedict is surely hoping this will happen.
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