THE
P RTAL
May 2019
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News from the Ordinariate
Revised Complementary Norms
O n
9th April 2019, the
Vatican Press Office announced
amendments to the Complementary
Norms of the Apostolic Constitution
Anglicanorum coetibus of the
Congregation for the Doctrine of the
Faith.
There is the provision for Anglican
priests already incardinated in a diocese
by virtue of the Pastoral Provision in
the USA, to be incardinated in the
Ordinariate.
Furthermore, a Diocesan priest
may celebrate Divine Worship for the
Ordinariate when no Ordinariate priest
is available.
Substantially the new document
differs very little from the original one.
The main alterations are that people
who are validly baptised in another
Mgr Keith Newton told T he P ortal ,
Ecclesial Community outside of the
“I would emphasise that this very
Catholic Church, may be admitted to
much helps us in our mission of
membership of the Ordinariate when received into evangelisation.” The whole document, and the
full communion with the Catholic Church. Previously accompanying explanation, are to be found on T he
P ortal Facebook page.
they needed to have Anglican antecedence.
Pilgrimage servers
O rdinariate Group
members who are Mass on Saturday 22nd June are asked to contact
servers and would like to help with serving at the Michael Batten at [email protected]
Ordinariate Pilgrimage to Our Lady of Walsingham
Our Lady of Walsingham in Portsmouth
W
hen the statue of Our Lady of Walsingham
They may go to St Patrick’s altar in St Agatha’s, which
came to the Catholic cathedral in Portsmouth, in its early days was nicknamed the Irish church. Dr
Fr Maunder of St Agatha’s was invited to celebrate Linklanter, its first priest, Fr Dolling, his successor,
mass there according to the Ordinariate rite.
and Dr Osborne, Dolling’s long time curate and
biographer, all hailed from Ireland. A capital atop a
The brethren of the Oratory of St Philip Neri in pillar in the church is carved with shamrocks.
Manchester have given St Agatha’s two pertinent relics
of Blessed Dominic Barberi who received Newman
Fr Mercer recently spent a holiday weekend with the
into the Catholic Church, and of Blessed John Henry Oratorians in Manchester and took the opportunity
Newman himself.
to worship with Dr Starkie and his Ordinariate
congregation in that city.
Proposed Pilgrimage to Rome
P reliminary plans
are being made for want to pencil these dates into your diary so as to avoid
a joint pilgrimage of the Ordinariates worldwide any clashes with other arrangements you might make.
to Rome in the spring of 2020. Currently the dates
being looked at are 10th-16th May and although it is
Further details will be circulated as soon as they are
far too early to make any firm arrangements you might available.
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