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is the Trust and so on. In this Diocese we needed to
help the Ordinariate, as they help us. We have provided
a house and a stipend for each of them. We have one
who is retired and so does not need assistance in that
way. Then there is Fr Ivor Morris who has a house but
not a parish to go with it. There are Chaplaincies in
prisons and hospitals and the like. We have tried to
help the financial side.”
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would not use it. I prefer the word ‘integration’. Not
absolute integration, as the Ordinariate priests are
working as priests in charge. Absorption fails to
understand what the Ordinariate is, and what it is for
as well as its patrimony.”
Jackie asked the Bishop, “What are your hopes for
the Ordinariate in the next ten years?” The Bishop
thought for a moment and then said, “To consolidate
Jackie asked, “How do you assess the Ordinariate its position. A difficulty for the Ordinariate is its own
as an aid to the New Evangelisation?” The Bishop liturgy not being available for some years. It will be able
replied at once, “I want to respond to that! Mission is to continue what is distinctive in its own patrimony.”
the prime task for all of us. We are all in this together.
Pope Paul VI said that the Church exists to Evangelise.
We went to take our leave and thank the Bishop for
Pope John Paul II said that Evangelisation was a duty his kindness and time when he said, “I want to say
of love.”
something to you. I have tremendous admiration for
the courage in which so many clergy and their families
Ronald drew the Bishop’s attention to a very real have stepped out in faith. They have left the security of
problem, and asked; “In your view, My Lord, will the parish, stipend and ministry and stepped out in faith.”
Ordinariate grow and flourish, or will it be absorbed
into the life of the Diocese of Brentwood?” Bishop
We thanked the Bishop and stepped out into the
McMahon took the problem head on, “I must take you Cathedral House car park and the rain! We left with
up on one point.
the impression of a holy man still with us. It was a
privilege to have met him. The Ordinariate has a real
It is the word, ‘absorb’. I do not like the word and friend in The Right Reverend Thomas McMahon.
Go to Walsingham on Pilgrimage
Stay at The Hospice of Our Lady Star of the Sea at the Anglican Shrine
Contact The Hospitality Department, The Milner Wing, The Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham,
Common Place , Walsingham, NR22 6BP
Tel: 01328 820239 Fax: 01328 824206 [email protected]
or at the Roman Catholic National Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham
Contact The Shrine, Elmham House, and the Walsingham Association, Pilgrim Bureau,
Friday Market Place, Walsingham, Norfolk, NR22 6DB
Telephone 01328 820217 Fax 01328 821087 [email protected][email protected][email protected]
Ordinariate Lapel Badge
The Hemel Hempstead Ordinariate Group have produced an attractive lapel
badge, brooch pin of Our Lady of Walsingham and all Ordinariate members are
being asked to consider wearing one to promote the Ordinariate, with all profits
will go to the Ordinariate via the Hemel Hempstead Group.
The pin measures 25mm by 12mm and has a fixing clasp on the back to hold
it securely. They cost £4 each and are available to all Ordinariate members
and others. Please send your order with a cheque pade payable to the Hemel
Hempstead Group, and enclose a stamped addresed envelope to:
John Worley, 48 Lawn Lane, Hemel Hempstead, Herts HP3 9HL.