THE
P RTAL
January 2012
Page 15
Letter to the Editor
From Mr David Forman
Dear Sir,
Something quite remarkable has happened to
Anglo-Catholics in Coventry during 2011.
From the ashes of the General Synod, Our Lady,
Blessed John Henry Newman, the Holy Father and
Fr Paul Burch have, together created a thriving and
vibrant worshipping community of Catholics of a
quality we could never have dreamed of in our long
days of despair in the wilderness years since 1992.
Welded together in one body are the Catholic
faithful from no less than seven parishes within the
Anglican Diocese of Coventry,
The first wave of the exodus to the Catholic Church
is now complete. Our many blessings include the
provision of a modern church building at Canley. It
is a spacious building off the Kenilworth Road, where
we have a Sunday Mass at 11am, and Daily Mass
during the week.
Focussed now in one community in one place
of worship is an Ordinariate Group remarkable
for its commitment and ability. It is no longer
scattered across the city and county. Our Ordinariate
Group includes no less than fourteen Readers,
nine Thurifers, six MCs, and five Extra-Ordinary
Eucharistic Ministers, all led by Fr Paul Burch, a
dynamic Parish Priest of great humility, without
whose vision and determination the Group would not
be what it is.
Working together as one body, without all the
dissenting voices we had to face before as committed
Catholics in Anglican Parishes and Deaneries, is truly
liberating for us all. We can at last be ourselves, free
to love and worship true to the Faith in a way that
only Catholics know and understand.
David Forman
Coventry
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