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THE P RTAL
April 2014
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All eyes are upon you
Whereas not
so long ago people got quite twitchy when they spotted a security
camera pointing down at them, nobody seems to bat an eyelid at the CCTV that is
all around us these days. Home is probably one of the few places where we can escape the
security camera’s gaze – we can’t even step into a church these days and be sure we’re not
being watched (perhaps a price worth paying to keep churches open though).
Cardinal Müller
When he told the three ordinaries
of the personal ordinariates recently
that “all eyes are upon you”, Cardinal
Müller was not talking about
surveillance, I think. He is absolutely
right that people are watching the
ordinariates, but he was referring to
their understandable curiosity as to what extent the
ordinariates are successfully doing what they were
created to do, rather than their spying and attempting
to catch out (though there may well be the odd camera
trained on the ordinariates with less benign intent).
are we doing what
Anglicanorum coetibus asks of us
Cardinal Müller has done us a favour in pointing
us back to what might be called our foundational
document, Anglicanorum coetibus, which like any
foundational document outlines our identity and our
purpose. We might think we are all doing a splendid
job, but are we actually doing the job that Anglicanorum not hermetically sealed
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