THE
P RTAL
November 2011
Page 13
Letters to the Editor
From Neville Burgess Mass at Sacred Heart.
Dear Sir, Mr Gillson is correct that a building of one’s own
must be the best option. If a Church building is not
available, then why not use a School or Community
Hall?
I read with interest the letter from Miss Ruth Taylor
in the September edition of The Portal.
The question of growth is an important one: Too
often in the past, Catholics have left the whole idea of
evangelisation to others. This has been especially true
of a certain type of Anglican Catholic.
Surely if the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of
Walsingham is not an evangelistic body, it is nothing?
The Ordinariate may be a small and “fragile plant”;
but its object must surely be nothing less than the
conversion of England.
Yours in Christ
Neville Burgess
Runcorn
From Jeremy Wye
Dear Sir,
Every month I look forward to the e-mail that will
tell me that the latest edition of The Portal is waiting
for me. I download it at once, as I prefer to read it
from real paper!
I suppose it would be too expensive for you to
produce it in hard copy as well as electronically?
Yours
Jeremy Wye
From Mrs Josephine Woolgar
Dear Sir,
George Gillson’s letter in the September edition of
The Portal caught my eye. The Ordinariate Groups
that fit in with a parish for the Mass time must find
growth hard. You can invite someone to the Sacred
Heart, but it is difficult to invite them to the 2pm
Yours faithfully
Josephine Woolgar (Mrs)
Crewe
From Ms Charleen Bywater
Dear Sir,
George Gillson suggests (Portal Sept 2011) using a
School Hall for worship. This may not be as easy as
one might suppose. Although the law does say that
schools must hire out their Halls for Community use,
it also states “unless there is a compelling reason not
to”.
In my experience S