THE P RTAL
June 2014
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prevent me taking a full part in this. Another
problem is finance. The round trip of eighty
miles to and from Tavistock is costly. We do have a few
He wondered if a mobile chapel would be better and ideas to solve this difficulty, but have still to decide on
continued, “Whether this happens or not, is up in the a way forward.
air.” Jeanette added, “We all want to attract people to
“All in all, the Mission is a happy one, and very
our evening mass on Sunday and Wednesday.”
positive. None of us for one moment regret what we
good atmosphere
have done!
Jackie Foster is semi-retired, a partWe can confirm that this is
time office worker who walks her
indeed a happy mission that has
daughters’ dogs and provides a taxi
consolidated and is now planning
for her grandson. She described the
the next stage of their life in the
Mission as “good” and continued, “In
Ordinariate in Cornwall. The Choir
the main we are doing well. A couple
is a real bonus and has put them
have left us, but the atmosphere is
very much “on the map” in Catholic
good. We have had a get together
circles in the Duchy. We expect
with the Groups in the South West.
many readers of The Portal will
I am on the Pastoral Council here at
holiday in Cornwall this summer.
Saint Augustine’s and do Churches
Remember the evening mass is on
Together. The people we have now
Sunday at 1730 at Saint Augustine’s
are really Ordinariate through and
Catholic Church, Woodland Road,
through. We attract visitors; the next
St Austell, Cornwall, PL25 4RA. You
thing is for us to start to grow.
will receive a warm welcome.
Fr John
The Priest is Fr John Greatbatch,
an old friend of ours. He has been
seventeen years in Devon and
Cornwall, yet has lost none of his
native “Black Country” bluntness.
“My problem is that I live forty miles
away in Tavistock. Driving along
Cornish lanes, it takes an hour to get
to Saint Austell. My Tavistock parish
is large with two churches. I try to
bring the three groups together.
We have held some Quiz Nights,
with Tavistock, the village and the
The Cornish Catholic Chor
Ordinariate together. After three
years, it is beginning to come together.
us. This is the only Ordinariate group in the whole of
Cornwall.”
Evening Mass
“We are fortunate as many visitors to Cornwall want
an Evening Mass, and we provide that. The Choir is
flourishing. Once a month, on a Wednesday evening,
we use the Ordinariate Rite, and there are some from
the Anglican parish of Charlestown who attend the
Rite. Mgr Keith Newton is coming to visit us in June.
“The Mission has a Facebook page and it gets lots
of hits, including a Catholic priest in the Military
Ordinariate in Italy. He likes us!
finance is a problem
“We have difficulties with some of the Anglicans in
Churches Together, and there have been attempts to
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‘
From the age of fifteen,
dogma has been the
fundamental principle of
my religion: I know no other
religion; I cannot enter into the
idea of any other sort of religion;
religion, as a mere sentiment,
is to me a dream and a
mockery.
’
Bl John Henry Newman