THE
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June 2017
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News from the Ordinariate
Congratulations!
O n Ascension Sunday
, 28th May, the
Ordinariate in Torbay became the first Personal
Parish of the Ordinariate in the UK when Mgr Keith
Newton celebrated Mass, conferred confirmation,
inducted the first Parish Priest, Fr David Lashbrooke, and
erected the Personal Parish of Our Lady of Walsingham
with Saint Cuthbert Mayne, Torbay. More next month!
Our Lady of Fatima comes to Warwick Street
T he National
Pilgrim Virgin Statue of Our Lady of Fatima, and Relics of
Saint Jacinta and Saint Francisco will be travelling around the country, visiting
various Cathedrals abbeys and churches this year, 2017, which is the Centenary
year of the Fatima message, which was given by the Blessed Virgin between May
and October 1917. The Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham will be hosting a
Visitation on the weekend of 10th to 11th June at its central Church of Our Lady of
the Assumption and St Gregory, Warwick Street, London.
Pope Francis at Fatima
History was made at the Shrine of Fatima on 13 th May when Pope Francis declared
that Francisco Marto and his sister Jacinta are saints, the first child saints who are
not martyrs in the history of the church. Francisco, Jacinta and their cousin Lucia
are buried here side by side in the basilica. When Jacinta’s body was exhumed before
being brought here, 15 years after her death, it was found to be totally uncorrupted.
Because of this, the local bishop asked Lucia, by then a contemplative nun, to write
the memoirs of Jacinta and Francisco, detailing the extraordinary events that have
so powerfully impacted the lives of believers ever since.
Brother Robert Augustine takes Vows as Hermit
O n Tuesday
28th March Brother Robert
Augustine took his temporary vows as a hermit
before Mgr Keith Newton during Mass at the Basilica
of Our Lady of Walsingham. Br Robert joins Fr Davis
Butler in the eremitic life within the Ordinariate,
complementing the work of our religious sisters in
Birmingham and Walsingham. Alongside Institutes of
Consecrated Life, where religious live in community,
the Church recognises the life of hermits or anchorites
who withdraw further from the world. These men and
women devote their lives to the praise of God and the
salvation of the world through the silence of solitude
Mgr Keith Newton, Brother Robert Augustine and Sister Jane Louise
and through constant prayer and penance.
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