THE P RTAL
October 2013
A New Rite?
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the Ordinariate’s own Rite
Then I thought about the Rite that the Ordinariate
uses. Many use the modern Roman Rite. I do not
know of any Ordinarian using the Extraordinary Rite
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although they may. Now the Ordinariate is to have its
own Rite. It is more akin to the Extraordinary Rite,
ere in the Fens, I must confess, people although the language is English with “thee” and
know very little about the Ordinariate. There are “thou”.
Groups in Cambridge and Huntingdon, but outside
the places where those Groups worship, people do It is English . . . it is holy
not seem to know very much about us.
I thought I would hate it. But at a mass I attended
recently, celebrated by our Ordinary, I must say, I
I was thrilled
loved it. It is English. It is holy. It resonates with all
nd
Therefore, when I discovered that on Sunday 22
those phrases with which we are so familiar.
September 2013 there would be two letters addressed
to all Catholics about the Ordinariate, I was thrilled. London launch
One letter was from the Archbishop of Westminster,
It is to be launched on 10th October with a mass
The Most Revd Vincent Nichols; the other from our using it at Warwick Street at 1830. The press have been
Ordinary, Mgr Keith Newton. At last, I thought, all invited, so The Portal will be there. I hope there will
English Catholics will know about us, what we are, be a report in the October edition of this magazine.
where we come from, and what we are about.
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letters were not read out
How disappointed I was. The church where I
attended Mass on that Sunday, is one that has a strong
and vibrant Ordinariate Group (not in the Fens), yet
these letters were not read out. They were placed on
the table by the church door for people to take away
with them.
the conversion of England
or Britain even
For now, let me reflect on this Rite and the debate
elsewhere in this edition of The Portal about Anglican
Patrimony. The Rite matters. Fr Minchew said that,
and he is correct. But as Fr Minchew also said, it is not
all that matters.
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