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THE P RTAL February 2014 Page 11 Letters to the Editor From Jackie Brooks I read with interest, and mounting anger, Geoffrey Kirk’s article in the January edition of The Portal, and I must say I was surprised that something so apparently anti-ordinariate was considered for publication. I understood we were to bring with us some of the beauty of the Anglican tradition (PCCs and churchwardens are something we should have been pleased to leave behind!) and the new usage seems to have been carefully put together with that purpose in mind. I am very glad that at least some of our priests have carried out the wishes entrusted to us. Show your support for the Ordinariate Our Lady of Walsingham Badge and Cufflinks sold in support clergy stipends - available from: John Worley, 48 Lawn Lane Hemel Hempstead HP3 9HL Badges: £4 each - Cufflinks: £12 (pair) please include SAE - cheques payable to: Ordinariate olw Coat of Arms of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham available from: Ordinariate Lapel Badge, 274 Imperial Court, Kennington Lane, London SE11 5QN Cost: £5 (inc P&P) - cheques payable to: Ordinariate OLW Please remember to include your name and address when placing your order It has been a source of mystery to me as to why some priests have joined the Ordinariate if they are being nothing other than Catholic priests - what are they offering or doing that distinguishes them in any way and is this what the Ordinariate was established to achieve? Jackie Brooks Croydon The views expressed in these letters are not necessarily those of the Editors Letters for publication should be sent to: The Editors, The Portal, 56 Woodlands Farm Road, Birmingham B24 0PG [email protected] Join us at The Portal Living Rosary J ust send us an e-mail to editors@ portalmag.co.uk, or write to The Portal Magazine, 56 Woodlands Farm Road, Pype Hayes, Birmingham, B24 0PG. Tell us who you are and where you live. We will allocate you a mystery. You pray this mystery on the 1st day of the month. Then you proceed through the other mysteries, in turn, on the remaining days of the month. Just one mystery a day, and we all start in a different place, so the whole Rosary is prayed each and every day! To add to the meaning of this great prayer, we will send you a list of intentions - just two or three each day. You offer your mystery for each days’ intention. In this way, every Group will be prayed for by name every month, as will our Ordinary and his Assistants.