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2018 Autumn/Winter Edition – Issue 10

Eight new priests for the OrdinariateNewman & the Priesthood by Fr Cyril LawOrdinariate Conference ReportJacob Rees-Mogg, MP on the Ordinariate

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Eight new priests for the Ordinariate

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We rejoice now to have over a hundred men to serve the Church, not just in the Ordinariate, but also in diocesan parishes and chaplaincies in hospitals, prisons and schools around the country.We must all continue to pray hard for vocations to the priesthood so I end with a prayer used by a society in the Church of England but equally applicable for us in the Catholic Church:Almighty God, give us priests:

to establish the honour of your holy name; to offer the holy sacrifice of the altar; to give us Jesus in the holy sacrament; to proclaim the faith of Jesus; to baptise and to teach the young; to tend your sheep; to seek the lost; to give pardon to the penitent sinner to bless our homes; to pray for the afflicted; to comfort mourners; to strengthen us in our last hour; to commend our souls; Almighty God, give us priests!

The Right Revd Monsignor Keith NewtonHon. President The Friends of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham

Dear Friends,There is no doubt that the highlight of this year was the ordination of eight men as priests for service in the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham at the Birmingham Oratory during the summer. Six of them were former Anglican clergy but the other two completed a

full seminary programme with seminarians from Catholic dioceses in England and Wales at St Mary’s College Oscott. In my homily I reminded the congregation that priests come in all shapes and sizes and that there is nothing special about a priest except that he is a priest. Of course some priests are good teachers, some are even good preachers, some are good counsellors, spiritual directors, some good with youth, some good with old people, some are even quite holy. These abilities are all desirable but none get to the heart of the matter. St John the Baptist, the forerunner of Our Lord, preached with such force that people were shaken and repented but he was not himself the centre of his message. He pointed to one greater than himself who was to follow him. “A Signpost” sums up what John the Baptist was and what I think every priest is. By the life he leads he spells out the unseen dimension of worship and the life of the Spirit pointing men and women beyond what is seen and passing to what is unseen and eternal. He witnesses by what he is, to the world about him that all-consuming idea that man was made for the worship of God. One of the greatest Anglican preachers of the twentieth century, Austin Farrer, expressed it in a memorable and significant phrase when he called the priest “a walking sacrament”; a sign of Christ wherever his is. That is why we must never see the ordained person simply as someone chosen from the community to act on our behalf and perform certain functions, for he is nothing if he is not called by God to stand in a sacramental relationship to the priestly work of Christ. He is as much a representative of God as he is a representative of the people. It is important that the dual role is not obscured or ignored.That is why the first thing a priest does after his ordination is to go to the altar and celebrate the holy mysteries, to recall the sacrifice of Christ made once for all upon the Cross and feed his people with the bread of life and the cup of eternal salvation.One of the many gifts that the Ordinariate has brought to the church is priests, with many years pastoral experience between them. They are all unique, with different gifts and abilities, all ministering to the people of God through their pastoral work, the administration of the Sacraments, and by standing at the altar day by day offering the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

From the Honorary President

From Survival to GrowthWhen the Friends of the Ordinariate was formed in 2011 the sole priority was survival. The Ordinariate had no visible means of support. With God’s help – and yours – it has indeed survived. With the ordination in June of the 100th Ordinariate priest (there are now 105 clergy, 100 priests and five permanent deacons), the priority is shifting towards growth.

In recent months the Ordinariate structures have started to mature with the appointment of Area Deans, the election of a new Ordinariate Council and a major conference held for laity at Worth Abbey. At that conference Mgr. Keith Newton, the Ordinary, rightly said that the Ordinariate must keep growing or it will wither. But while the number of priests continues to expand, the laity, who offer them practical support, are relatively few. Although the registered members of the Ordinariate represent only a fraction of those who regularly attend Ordinariate Masses, they carry a disproportionately heavy burden. This burden of support – not to mention training new priests – is unsustainable for members of the Ordinariate alone. Of course, Dioceses have offered Ordinariate priests a range of roles to which a stipend is attached. But, while very welcome, this does little to promote the growth of the Ordinariate itself. At the aforementioned conference, a solid consensus emerged that the future lay in the ownership, or at least full control, of churches and presbyteries. Without its own places of worship, the future will always be uncertain. Positive steps are being taken in this direction. As well as The Assumption, Warwick St, and the Precious Blood in Borough, which are run by Ordinariate priests, the Ordinariate has acquired a redundant Methodist church in Torbay, Devon, and converted a hall into a presbytery (with the help of the Friends of the Ordinariate). In January this year it was announced that the Manchester Ordinariate had taken over full responsibility for St Margaret Mary parish in New Moston. So the tide is running in the right direction. As dioceses announce closure programmes, there is likely to be no shortage of churches. The deciding factor will, of course, come down to financial resources. The more the Friends of the Ordinariate can assist, the faster the Ordinariate is likely to grow. Peter Sefton-Williams Chairman, Friends of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham

Chairman’s Message

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Even if you have already filled in a Gift Aid form, we would appreciate it if you were to complete this form again for our records. We recently received a substantial Gift Aid payment from HMRC, which will go towards our work in supporting and highlighting the work of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.

ContentsFrom the Presidentby Mgr Keith Newton 2

Chairman’s Message by Peter Sefton-Williams 3

Newman and the Ministerial Priesthood 4 – 6

A Letter from the Ordinariate in Cambridgeby Keir Martland, Selwyn College 7

The Annual Central London Corpus Christi Procession 8

The Church’s Restoration… in 2018 10 & 11

Three lesser known central London churchesby Harry Hollingworth 12

Interviews with Fr Jonathan Creer & Fr Thomas Mason 13 & 14

Jacob Rees-Mogg. MP on the Ordinariate 15

Ordinariate lay conference 15

Ordination Report 16 – 17

Building a new Presbytery 17

Forthcoming Events 18

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If one takes a very loose theo-ecclesial reckoning, it could be said – sensu largo – that Newman was ordained for the last two major orders four times in all: first as a deacon (13 June 1824) then priest (29 May 1825) in the Anglican ministry in Oxford, and later deacon (29 May 1847) and priest (30 May 1847) as a Roman Catholic. This short article, however, is not set out to make the theological distinctions of the essential differences between Anglican and Roman Catholic orders. Newman himself would be the best reference for his own views on the matter. Rather, it is hoped that, by sampling some of the letters and diary entries Newman wrote around the time of his ordinations, we may catch a glimpse, or have a feel, of what went through Newman’s mind during these rightfully most momentous events of his Christian life, and, grosso modo, reflect a little upon how his understanding and exercising of the ministerial priesthood inspire us today. A little less than a month before his Anglican diaconal ordination, thanks to Pusey’s recommendation, Newman accepted the assignment to be the curate to an ageing rector at St Clement’s, Oxford. Newman explained that this decision is of ‘most important determination’, as the job involved the prospect of rebuilding the church itself. His role was envisioned to represent a stabilising factor amidst the disturbances that the demolition might bring to the almost 2000 parishioners. Newman the ordinand, barely 23 years of age, embraced this rather heavy mission with zest, accompanied, nevertheless, with a light self-deprecating touch: ‘The only good objection against my taking it is my weakness of voice.’ He explained to his father that he was ‘convinced it is necessary to get used to parochial duty early, and that a Fellow of a College after ten years residence in Oxford feels very awkward among poor and ignorant people.’ And on Trinity Sunday 1824, Newman noted in his diary, ‘ordained Deacon in Ch Ch [Christ Church]’, and penned these intimate post-ordination sentiments, which would evoke sympathy, I am sure, with many who have had gone through the similar experience:

‘It is over. I am thine, O Lord…the words “for ever” are so terrible. It was hardly a godly feeling which made me feel melancholy at the idea of giving up all for God. At times indeed my heart burnt within me, particularly during the singing of the Veni Creator. Yet, Lord, I ask not for comfort in comparison of sanctification…’

Although he did set about inquiring about becoming a missionary abroad, Newman was quite literally, in his own words, ‘nailed down to Oxford’, faithfully absorbed with regular parochial duties of ‘churching, baptism, christening, read in chapel in afternoon’, composing sermons, attending committee meetings about the rebuilding project, and most edifyingly, visiting the sick, ‘the poorer sort’, ‘the shopkeepers and the principal people’, and even the non-church-going dissenters, and noting down with pastoral sensivity and personal sincerity their spiritual status animarum. The

moderation we may safely suppose). Praises for his preaching were starting to trickle out, but Newman admitted that ‘two sermons a week are very exhausting. This is only the third week, and I am already running dry…’ On the one hand, it is natural to assume that Newman took comfort in the praises offered by his flock, as evidenced in the records he made of people’s remarks on his sermons; on the other, Newman kept up a keen awareness that what he preached must conduce to the salvation of his hearers. Newman’s active reflection on the living exchanges with his parishioners and the theological insights he gained from reading are relevant to forming the parochial (in the sense of pastoral) orientation and plain (in the sense of a straightforward, explanatory) presentation of his preaching.

If preaching was enough of a preoccupation with Newman the curate, singing seemed to be another less noted yet institutional part of parochial life that Newman took interest in. He had quarrels with the singers ‘which ended in their leaving the church’ just less than a month before his priestly ordination in 1825. The disgruntled faction questioned the young curate’s authority in removing the gallery which had resulted in the effective disbanding of the singers. There is no space here to adjudicate in this particular Newman vs the grumpy singers case, save for saying that it is the education of his faithful, understood in a large sense, that overrides Newman’s other concerns. The setting up of the parochial Sunday School, for example, to which he attended personally with great care, was the humble beginning of a lasting ministerial legacy, not any less significant compared to his scholarly achievements connected with Oxford or the Catholic University of Dublin or the Oratory School.

Newman and the Ministerial Priesthood

parishioners’ register, the Speculum Gregis, which Newman the curate augmented with care, is also testament to his ministerial dedication. Newman declared proudly, under the mantle of the Good Shepherd, to his mother that ‘I shall know my parishioners, and be known by them.’Readers today are quite accustomed to all those laudatory remarks made by Newman’s Oxford contemporaries about his characteristic silver-toned preaching voice from the unadorned pulpit at the university church of St Mary’s, but actually only just one month into his life as a preacher back at St Clement’s, there were not such acclamations, rather, he received multiple complaints about him not speaking loud enough when giving the Sunday sermon! And being a highly self-conscientious person, he sought to remedy this defect and noted one day: ‘think I have found out the secret of my great weakness of voice – drank several glasses of wine today, and (tho’ I did not take my usual eggs) the three services were scarcely any inconvenience and my voice was pretty strong’! Newman continued to observe how his preaching shaped up since he had taken to drinking before preaching…(in strictest

Newman was kept busy even on the very day of his ordination as an Anglican priest, again in Christ Church Cathedral by the Bishop of Oxford. The diary entry for the day (Trinity Sunday 1825) indicates that he was still composing sermons, preached, churched, baptized, and buried as on any other day worthy of an active minister. On the surface, all seemed calm. But deep down some unsettling musings arose in Newman’s mind as he felt that he had wavered somewhat over the purity of motivation and presence of godliness in his fellow ordinands (who were they, by the way?). His mind then turned to considering what constitutes a real Christian, does mere membership in the visible Church count? What about regeneration? These serious revolving questions, or better to say, developing articulation on essential Christian doctrines had never been treated in separation from Newman’s life and identity as a minister. It was never as if Newman acted as a priest by day, a theologian by night. His ministry and his mind inform each other. On the very day after his ordination, he continued with marriage, visitations and almsgivings, topped up with some academic work. Throughout the 1830s and 40s, enmeshed in the polemical bickering surrounding the Tractarian movement, Newman’s priestly image sometimes seemed to fade into the background by force of his stellar ascendency in notoriety as a campaigner for a cause. Popular perception often saw Newman the Oriel Fellow and Tutor, Newman the productive Preacher, but seldom Newman the Pastor of Souls, and even until his retreat to ‘the College’ at Littlemore, he was perhaps liable to being labelled as Newman the failed Monk. But nothing can be farther from the truth – Newman maintained a vibrant pastoral life marked by an intense regime of personal prayer, keeping of the liturgical seasons, and spiritual direction through contact and correspondence. And what happened immediately after his conversion to Roman Catholicism, namely, his going to Oscott and Rome for confirmation and priestly formation, as well as the discerning of which form of priestly life he ought to lead in order to better serve the people in England, both go to accentuate the practical centrality and metaphysical totality of the ministerial priesthood making up Newman’s personhood. On 10 May 1847, Newman wrote, ‘[Ambrose] St John and I expect to be ordained priests very shortly. And then we shall be placed by the Pope in some house altogether [that house being the convent at Santa Croce, ‘Jerusalem in Rome’].’ Three days later, he added, ‘in half an hour I and St John are going in for our examination [which was actually delayed to 22 May at the Vicariate of Rome] – in a few days we expect to be ordained subdeacons – and by the end of a month we are to be priests…The Pope is constant in his thoughts of us…’. And in the same letter Newman made mention of the concurrent discussions in Rome about the restoration of the Catholic hierarchy in England. And on 24 May, Newman noted his ‘learning the ceremonies of the Mass’, when two days later he was ordained a subdeacon by Cardinal Fransoni in the presence of his closest convert companions in Rome. And on 29 May, Ambrose St John and Newman were ordained deacons in St John Lateran, then priests the following day. But interestingly enough, in his old age Newman actually forgot as to where exactly he had been ordained a Catholic priest! Records show that it was at the chapel of the Propaganda College near the Spanish Steps.

By Fr Cyril Jerome Law, Jr

Newman as cardinal

Newman as grumpy old man

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In lieu of the frequent parochial duties Newman the Anglican curate had attended to twenty odd years before in a country parish, Newman the Catholic priest had taken to planning very carefully the intentions he wished to apply to the first batch of Holy Masses he was to offer in various localities in the church-filled city of Rome, since they ‘have indulgences attached to them’, as he remarked in a letter written just two hours after his ordination. His diary entries for the following month give all the churches where he offered Mass and who served. They read like a Roman pilgrimage account. As we can still now see in his private chapel in the Birmingham Oratory, Newman kept photos of friends and family dear to his heart by placing them right by the altar where he offers Mass. It is interesting to note that after his priestly ordination, he styled himself ‘Il Sacerdote Giovanni M. Newman’ in a letter to Pope Pius IX, using his Catholic confirmation name Maria [Mary] instead of E (Enrico in Italian for Henry). There emerge from the records a clear cultic emphasis and sacramental effervescence in Newman the Roman Catholic priest performing his sacred functions in the heart of the Universal Church under the aegis of the Supreme Pontiff. More so, his correspondence and devotional work were imbued with a growing religious and missionary fervour fuelling his Oratorian-sacerdotal vocation. But as Newman himself explained, the specific charism of the Oratorian is very much tied to the people and place they are assigned to serve: ‘An Oratorian is an archetypal secular [a secular diocesan priest] – and our object will be to form archetypes who may gradually be spread through the Country, according as the Bishops wish to employ us…An Oratorian is par excellence a ritualist and a confessarius – and besides this we must have professors in theology for the use of our novices and students.’ And Newman strove hard indeed to try to keep up this ideal for the rest of his life in his pastoral and educational ministry, even when some of his colleagues and superiors saw and did things differently. As the founder and superior of a clerical community, he had to balance the institutional and the familial sides of the often challenging operation of human dynamics. Newman’s cardinalate, although not pertaining to a separate rank in holy orders, nonetheless conferred on Newman an elevated ecclesiastical dignity that bade him make use of it to promote the good cause of bridging the civil and ecclesial division between Catholics and non-Catholics in England. In this way Newman took upon himself a new ministry of respect and re-establishing of reputation for the Catholic Church. In trying to string together the snippets of Newman’s words and work connected with his assumption of clerical roles, we may come to appreciate, on the one hand, Newman’s matter-of- fact approach to his perceived calling to be a servant of Christ and His Church, without ostentation or pomp, or indeed any note of self-congratulatory elitism – in a way we may almost say he took things as they came along. But on the other hand, there glows in Newman’s heart a zeal for winning souls with the beauty of truth and the light of glory, through the instrumentality of earnest personal – cor ad cor – encounter, even if only in the form of words in letters at times. In short, one may say, Newman is a living example of how an earnest soul sealed by the power of priestly holiness, with the absence of any false ego, can indeed influence lives and lead the world beyond irreligion and sin.

Let us end with a little gem of Newman’s verse-translation on the priesthood to which he holds with such great esteem: The Priestly Office From St Gregory Nazianzen.In service o’er the Mystic Feast I stand; I cleanse Thy victim-flock, and bring them near In holiest wise, and by a bloodless rite. O fire of Love! O gushing Fount of Light!(As best I know, who need Thy pitying Hand) Dread office this, bemired souls to clear Of their defilement, and again made bright.

Oxford. 1834.For an excellently-focused work on the subject, I definitely recommend Fr Gerard Skinner’s Newman the Priest: A Father of Souls (Gracewing Publishing, 2010) which deserves to be more known and be ranked top on the gift-list for clerical friends. https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/cardinal-john-henry-newman-18011890-130084

Newman in the Oratorian habit (c. 1860)

A Letter from the Ordinariate in CambridgeKeir Martland, Selwyn College

The Cambridge Mission always had one of the smallest Groups in the Ordinariate and, in the recent past, there has been little activity since the year when our Group Pastor the Revd. Professor Allen Brent was Acting Dean of St Edmund’s College. During this time the College had a well-attended weekly Evensong and Benediction with supper afterwards. However, over the last year, since the reception of Michael Miller and myself, and thanks to the enthusiasm, generosity, and support of Sr Ann Swailes and the Revv Allen Brent, Alban McCoy, and Mark Langham, the Cambridge Mission has been undergoing a revival. The first ‘Patrimonial’ project, the initiative of our brilliant resident lay theologian Michael Miller, was a Caroline Divines Reading Group with wine (including Mgr Mark Langham and our Fr Allen) which forged some new friendships and gave way to common recitations of the Ordinariate Office, and then to Mass. Our first Sung Mass took place at St Edmund’s College and was followed by a fundraising event in the evening for Aid to the Church in Need UK. A number of services took place following this event and, by the time the Ordinary came to celebrate a Pontifical High Mass at Fisher House (the University Chaplaincy) for the Sixth Sunday of Easter, we were able to introduce him to a solid group of about thirty regulars, both town and gown, and another twenty newcomers. This Mass was very well received, and the quality of the music was remarked upon several times. Clearly, there is a demand for Anglican Patrimony in Cambridge! We have built up our group, mostly non-Ordinariate Catholics along with the occasional Anglican considering a swim across the Tiber, almost from scratch. We have a strong presence at Fisher House during the week, with Noonday Prayer said from the Customary of Our Lady of Walsingham before the midday Mass, and the occasional service of Benediction after Vespers led by Fr Allen. There was one memorable occasion when the usual Friday Vespers was cancelled so a group met in the chapel to sing Evensong instead! As Fr Mark put it once, the Ordinariate is now perfectly normal and uncontroversial, just “part of the furniture.” Fr Aidan Nichols has looked on approvingly from Blackfriars at these “excellent developments.”

We have also appointed a Director of Music, Christopher Baczkowski, the Roger Green Organ Scholar at Homerton College and former Organ Scholar at Wakefield Cathedral. Christopher is steeped in Anglican tradition and is a former student of the current Director of Music at Warwick Street, London W1. So far he has played at all of the Sung Masses of the Cambridge Ordinariate Mission. He has come to know our group and the Ordinariate Mass and he has been an enormous help to the revived Cambridge Mission. We don’t know what we would have done without him! The future of the Ordinariate in this country may well depend on a strong presence in our historic university towns, since it is no longer the parish or the school but the university experience which tends to produce conversions and vocations. The Oxford Mission now at Holy Rood, Abingdon Road, is surely one of the great success stories of the Ordinariate. There is no shortage of orthodox Anglicans in Cambridge seeking unity with the See of Peter, nor is there a shortage of Roman Catholics sympathetic to the truly ‘catholic’ vision of Pope Benedict in Anglicanorum Coetibus. There is, I feel, enormous potential for evangelisation, and for a deepening of existing faith, through the Ordinariate in Cambridge. As I said in my article for The Portal, as we make the important step from occasional to regular Divine Worship Masses, it’s now a question of keeping the momentum going, trusting in the Lord, and finding out how best to share the treasure. We are also expecting visits from Fr Thomas Mason, Fr James Bradley, and other clergy during the coming term. The excellent idea of Ordinariate Evensong in a College Chapel (sponsored by the Friends of the Ordinariate) next year has been suggested and we are very keen that this should happen. The timing and location of our regular Mass will be announced on our website https://cambridgeordinariate.wordpress.com/ and in The Portal shortly. Please pray for the Cambridge Mission and for my own discernment of a possible priestly vocation with the Ordinariate.

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For the last few years a few good souls have organised a Procession on the Sunday of Corpus Christi. This year was no exception. Many hundreds of people took to the streets to accompany Our Lord from Our Lady of the Assumption, Warwick Street to St. James’s, Spanish Place. Here are a few photos of this year’s procession.

The Annual Central London Corpus Christi Procession

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Lord’s pierced side, from his heart. This is the new outpouring that creates the Church and renews mankind. Moreover, the opened side of the Lord asleep on the Cross prompted the Fathers to point to the creation of Eve from the side of the sleeping Adam, and so in this outpouring of the sacraments they also recognized the birth of the Church: the creation of the new woman from the side of the new Adam.(Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Week – From the Entrance into Jerusalem to the Resurrection)

On entering the Church of the Most Precious Blood we now see the Altar and Font carefully aligned along the central axis of red marble, setting in stone this foundational relationship between Baptism and Eucharist.What is next? The nave walls must be painted and a new lighting scheme will be installed before Christmas. The Stations of the Cross need to be cleaned

and restored. A generous donor has offered to pay for the decoration of the Apse and Baldachino once a scheme is agreed. Finally, when funds allow, the fine Lewis & Co pipe organ rescued from the Anglican Church of St Mark, Battersea Rise will be installed in the gallery to support the singing of the congregation and the thriving Junior Choir.The Parish gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance given by many people to these projects including FOTO. The parish website is www.preciousblood.org.uk .

• Restoration and reinstatement of the Sacristy• Repair and rehanging of the Church bells• Rewiring of the Church and Presbytery• Installation of exterior floodlighting• Installation of choir stalls (from St Alban’s Abbey)

in the gallery• Refurbishment and making of additional pews to

increase capacityCurrently the final stone floor covering is being installed over the heating system. The design was developed in consultation with our architects (initially Colin Kerr and, latterly, Jonathan Louth). It features a band of red marble, representing the Most Precious Blood of Christ, flowing from the Altar to the rear of the nave where it forms a cross with a new Baptismal Font at the centre.

The Font is a striking addition to the building. It is carved from a single piece of stone and weighs over one and a half tons. A search in the RIBA archive at the V&A unearthed Walters’ plans and detailed drawings for MPB including the scale drawing for the Font. Joseph Ratzinger (our beloved Pope Benedict XVI) commentating on 1 John 5:6-8 wrote:

In this double outpouring of blood and water, the Fathers saw an image of the two fundamental sacraments – Eucharist and Baptism – which spring forth from the

MPB was designed by FA Walters and opened in 1892. Externally it is little changed and, together with the Presbytery, forms a cohesive set of ecclesiastical buildings typical of the 1890s.

Walters was a prolific and remarkably versatile architect. Where resources allowed he produced grand designs; Buckfast Abbey, Ealing Abbey and Sacred Heart, Wimbledon being perhaps his best-known works. In contrast, MPB is a simple, budget-priced, brick-built Basilica. He wrote in The Tablet in October 1891 that the Church interior would be “of an extremely simple and severe style of Romanesque or Norman, somewhat like the earliest portions of the Abbey of St Albans”.

Much has changed internally but the noble simplicity of the physical design shines through. The internal decoration was painted over in the 1980s and Church furnishings (pulpit, font and altar rails) removed. However, the high altar survived as did the fine Baldachino which, providentially, echoes the one in Cardinal Newman’s titular Church in Rome, San Giorgio in Velabro.

The London (South) ordinariate group, led by Fr Christopher Pearson, took on the Church knowing that there was a great deal to do and no funds available. Fr Christopher and all of the PCC officers from his Anglican Parish had joined the Ordinariate together in the “first wave”. Fortunately, this team had extensive experience of Church maintenance, restoration and, crucially, promoting stewardship.

Several significant building projects have been completed including:

• Creation of a self-contained flat in the Presbytery for the Priest

• Installation of underfloor heating in the Church

The Church’s Restoration… in 2018

The Ordinariate and Parish Church of the Most Precious Blood (MPB) is located in a vibrant part of London just south of London Bridge near to Borough Market, The Globe Theatre and Tate Modern. The Archbishop of Southwark, Peter Smith, placed the Parish in the care of the Ordinariate in January 2013.

Architects proposal

Floor in progress

Font and floor

Font Font and High Altar

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Three lesser known central London churches Interviews with Fr Jonathan Creer & Fr Thomas Mason

In Soho and Covent Garden there are three unobtrusive but very significant Catholic churches. As a recent convert living outside central London I might never have come across any of them if I had not been invited to visit one located close to Piccadilly Circus. In fact, the majority of London Catholics probably have no idea of the existence of these churches. If, for example, you were to ask people leaving Mass at Westminster Cathedral, the London Oratory, St James’s Spanish Place or St George’s Cathedral Southwark about Catholic churches in Soho and Covent Garden you would not find many people who were even aware of their existence. And yet, Soho contains the oldest continually operating Catholic church in London (Our Lady of the Assumption Warwick Street) and England’s first post-reformation church to be dedicated to St Patrick (St Patrick’s Soho Square) while in Covent Garden you will find the first post-reformation church in the UK dedicated to the Blessed Sacrament (Corpus Christi Maiden Lane).

Fr Jonathan CreerWhy did you do down the Ordinariate route to ordination rather than the diocesan route?I went down the Ordinariate route to ordination, simply because it seemed the obvious and natural thing to do.

Having trembled on the brink of becoming a Roman Catholic for some time, it was Pope Benedict’s creation of the Ordinariate that finally gave me the push I needed. I thought I no longer had any excuse not to become a Catholic, and if not now, why, and when? I had begun thinking about ordination when I was still an Anglican, and when the Ordinariate asked if people were interested in exploring vocations to the priesthood,

it seemed the right time and the right thing to do. The six years of training have flown by, and I have felt reassured again and again that I have done the right thing.Which parts of your ‘Anglican patrimony’ will play a role in your ministry as a Catholic priest?As I have mentioned, I resort to Anglican patrimony, in the form of Divine Worship: The Missal, at Mass every day. The only ‘normal’ Novus Ordo Masses I have said so far have been concelebrating at the ordinations or first Masses of my friends from seminary, or covering for local priests when they are away. More generally, I think the way our Ordinariate Group operates, its strong social ties, and the strong voice it gives to the laity, and perhaps particularly women, owes something to our Anglican roots, although I am sure that many other catholics in diocesan parishes have very similar experiences.What are your hopes for the Ordinariate in the coming years? My hope for the future of the Ordinariate is that it continues to flourish, and to be appreciated more than perhaps it has been as a far-sighted and ecumenical gesture of Pope Benedict, as a bridge, rather than an obstacle, to the many Catholic-minded people who remain in the Church of England. But I think our future cannot be confined to appealing to certain ‘high church’ Anglicans. I hope that with the rest of the Church we will play our part in the conversion of that large proportion of people in this country who only enter a church for a wedding or a funeral, if at all, and who are ceasing to be even culturally Christian.

For a convert who is familiar with the great Catholic churches of London as well as the more unassuming and sometimes uninspiring Catholic churches of the London suburbs, the discovery of the Catholic churches of Soho and Covent Garden is a revelation. Our Lady of the Assumption was built in 1790 on a site occupied by a Catholic chapel since 1730 which was the Portuguese and then the Bavarian Embassy chapel which served the Catholics of London during a century of persecution.. Its style is English baroque but with a sanctuary and apse installed by the great John Francis Bentley, architect of Westminster Cathedral. It is now the home of the Ordinariate. Corpus Christi Maiden Lane was opened by Cardinal Manning in 1874 as a shrine to the Blessed Sacrament in reparation for the sins committed in England since the reformation. It has recently undergone a magnificent restoration at the hands of a well-known contemporary Catholic architect Anthony Delarue. The first chapel on the site of St Patrick’s Soho Square was completed in 1792 and the existing church was completed in 1893. The restoration of St Patrick’s was completed seven years ago and is a fine example of Roman neo-classical style.

All these churches combine a mission to the people of Soho and Covent Garden with a mission to “parishioners” from all over London as well as to a huge number of tourists. These churches are truly beacons of spirituality as well as being firmly anchored in the life of perhaps the most vibrant area of central London, an area that combines fine restaurants, lively bars, boutique hotels as well as drunkenness, poverty and rough-sleeping. My experience of the Catholic Church over the last year has been greatly enhanced by getting to know the churches of Soho and Covent Garden. I strongly recommend all London Catholics as well as all Catholics visiting London to make a small pilgrimage to these three Catholic gems hidden in the maze of streets in Soho and Covent Garden.

Is there anything you miss about the Anglican church?The main thing I miss about Anglicanism, as I’m sure many in the Ordinariate would also say, is regularly going to Choral Evensong. We occasionally say public evening prayer on a Sunday in Torquay, and of course I can always listen to the broadcasts on Radio 3, but it is not quite the same thing. Cranmer’s eucharistic theology was defective, but in other ways he was he was a brilliant translator and liturgist, and his encapsulation of the different hours of the daily office into just two offices, of morning and evening prayer, was a work of genius. It also succeeded in providing offices which would be read, said and attended by large numbers of lay people, which is something the Church has aimed at doing ever since. Evensong in particular has a sort of jewel-like perfection, and has attracted some of the greatest English composers and some of the best English music since the reformation. Happily it is authorised for use in the Catholic Church as part of the Customary of the Ordinariate, and I look forward to its coming into more regular use, when people have the resources to do that.What has most surprised, and delighted, you about the Catholic Church?I think what has most surprised and delighted me about the Catholic Church has simply been how easy my route into the Church has been, and how friendly and welcoming the people have been, so that I wonder what I was afraid of, and why I didn’t do it years before. I have also been surprised by how varied the Church is - from the outside it seems very uniform and monolithic, but as a Catholic I’m aware that the Church contains everything from charismatic praise and worship services to the extraordinary form at the Oratories, from the Syro-Malabar rite to the Dominican rite to the Ordinariate missal. My own journey towards ordination in the Church means I have spent most of the past six years with seminarians, first with the Dominicans and other religious at Blackfriars in Oxford, and then with diocesan seminarians at St Mary’s College, Oscott. That has been an overwhelmingly positive experience, and I have been delighted by the faith and faithfulness of my fellow seminarians. Occasionally one hears or reads comments from crusty old priests about the shocking seminarians of today, how rigid and unpastoral they are; how very different, and much better, things were in their day, and so on. It is the familiar refrain of tired old men in every walk of life, everywhere, and it is nonsense. I myself am middle aged, but the young seminarians of today have given me great hope for the future of the Church, even as we pass through some difficult times.

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Two of the priests ordained this year for the Ordinariate are Frs Jonathan Creer & Thomas Mason; they are the first two who have been formed entirely as priests in the Catholic Church, without having been clerics in the Church of England previously. Part of the work of the Friends will be to support these two new priests in the first years of their ministry. So that we all might get to know them better, we posed them a few questions:

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Fr Thomas MasonWhy did you do down the Ordinariate route to ordination rather than the diocesan route?To be honest, I never considered pursuing a diocesan route. I was received into the Catholic Church as part of the Ordinariate’s ‘first wave’; it isn’t too much to say that the Ordinariate was the reason why I made the move into Catholicism, and as such this was the natural place for me to offer myself for ordination. The generosity of the offer and invitation from Pope Benedict XVI took me by surprise, but I immediately knew that it was something I had to investigate…and shortly thereafter to accept. In that context it wouldn’t have made sense to me to abandon this in favour of a diocesan route, even if this would have been more certain.Anglicanorum Cœtibus itself contains reference to seminarians, and this is an absolute essential if the Ordinariate is to become an established part of the Church’s life, rather than a short-term mechanism to make an easier journey for a group of converts. I simply see myself as being a small part of that movement. Which parts of your ‘Anglican patrimony’ will play a role in your ministry as a Catholic priest?I think that we have a clear and concrete patrimony, which is expressed well in the liturgical books proper to the Ordinariate; but that we also have something of a less tangible patrimony which sits alongside it. The former is something which is heavily dependent on the circumstances of ministry; I very much hope that it will feature heavily in my ministry, it is something which should be seen as a lamp to be placed on a stand rather than hidden away.

The less tangible sort of patrimony is, well, less tangible. A certain style, a level of care about how things are done, a striving for the highest we can manage rather than the lowest we can get away with. The relationship between priest and people also has a subtly different dynamic to it. I think that there is a genuine challenge for us to keep these elements; they’re less visible, they can’t be pinned down – and therefore teaching them to new clergy isn’t as clear as other aspects.What are your hopes for the Ordinariate in the coming years? I think that we’re now into a period of consolidation. The initial burst onto the scene has passed, and what’s now happening is that our groups across the country are settling into Catholic life. To find the next stage I think that we need to start having a firmer basis for our mission; this necessarily involves having the exclusive use of physical plant. In a great many places, we’ve been made very welcome by the existing Catholic parishes; but there’s an entirely new world which can be opened up when we’re not borrowing a church for a particular slot. I would hope that this would involve the public celebration of the office – Cathedral style choral evensong would be beyond most of us, but there are resources which allow for a much simpler production which is still a worthy offering of worship. This would be absolutely in line with our patrimony.Physical space wouldn’t just mean more liturgy; the chance to offer catechesis for all levels, as well as social activity. The example of the Portsmouth Mission’s work with the homeless being a good example. All of these can come together to contribution to the work of evangelisation which is central to all Catholic life.Is there anything you miss about the Anglican church?In general I try not to look back over my shoulder; however, there was a certain fixity about life in the Church of England, whilst this involved hiding away from certain changes and developments, it could feel very comforting. Being part of a young and entirely new venture cannot have that sort of feel; but that’s part of the adventure. It’s also worth noting that there is a level of security and certainty which is present in the Catholic Church which can never be found elsewhere. Moving into the Catholic Church certainly had a level of S. Peter climbing out of the boat.What has most surprised, and delighted, you about the Catholic Church?The welcome. There is a genuine sense that the Catholic Church is a family. Once received, that was it, I was one of the family. The same continued as a seminarian, and now as a Priest – whilst I have a label on me as ‘Ordinariate’, that has largely been irrelevant for people who simply see me as somebody who has come along and wants to serve.Fr Jonathan is assigned to work in Torquay, and Fr Thomas to Eastbourne.

Jacob Rees-Mogg. MP on the OrdinariateOn the 14th June 2018, a reception and dinner were hosted at the Reform Club by a group of members of the Ordinariate based in Marylebone. The guest of honour for this glittering occasion was Jacob Rees-Mogg, the well known Catholic and Conservative Member of Parliament for North East Somerset. During the evening Mr. Rees-Mogg made some comments concerning the growth of the Ordinariate. We are pleased to reproduce them here with his kind permission. “I’m delighted to be with you tonight. The Ordinariate is a precious gift from Pope Benedict XVI to the entire Church. It is first and foremost an act of genuine ecumenism. It allows former Anglicans to bring important parts of their great treasury of music, liturgy and spirituality with them into the Catholic Church. Now, when Anglicans enter the Catholic church, they have generously been given the means to maintain important parts of their patrimony and so feel fully at home. The beauty of Anglican liturgies will also strengthen the Catholic Church and the unity it provides will strengthen Christianity”. The influx of so many former Anglican clergy is likely to have a profound and long-term effect on the Catholic Church in this country in ways that we perhaps we do not yet fully appreciate. That is why Pope Benedict’s decision to establish the Ordinariate was not only of ecumenical importance but a prophetic gesture. I wish the Ordinariate well and hope it continues to thrive”

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Having been a member of the Ordinariate since its establishment in 2011, 7.5 years on I felt as though the initial excitement had faded, and although still very happy to be Roman Catholic, was beginning to lose sight of what the purpose of the Ordinariate was. Arriving at the conference, initially I felt a little sad to hear of so many groups whose priests struggle to

find enough time for their Ordinariate group due to diocesan pressures, poor communication and groups fading away, it was also a shame to see some groups not represented at the conference.Listening to the excellent speakers though and talking to members from other groups (an opportunity that doesn’t come often enough), I have been reminded that there were reasons for what has felt like a slow start – a settling in period where housing and stipends had to be sorted out, and that it is still only very early days. Our 7 years is only a tiny fraction

of the “golden thread” - of the faith from when it started in this country, through the reformation to now, during which time it has always been the same, and the full results of the venture may not be seen in our lifetimes, we are only working toward them.I have been reminded too of our purpose – we have been given a mission to be “united not absorbed” to bring people to the faith, and do it in an distinctively English way, and of how much we have to offer – including the quality of preaching, catechism and music, the role of the laity and a particular sort of relationship between people and clergy. Getting together again with old friends and meeting new ones, all there because they love the Ordinariate and want it to flourish, felt like a family reunion and I hope there will be many more.Overall I and everybody I spoke to felt it was a very successful event and I left feeling positive about our mission, looking forward to the future and hoping I will be around to see 2061, the Walsingham apparitions’ 1000th anniversary and the birth of the Ordinariate’s 50th, when Father Ed Tomlinson, one of the speakers at the event, has a feeling we may see the fruits of the Ordinariate really emerge.

Ordinariate lay conference

There is always something special about an ordination: men giving themselves entirely to the service of the Church; to administer the Sacraments, to preach the Word of God, and to offer the Sacrifice of the Altar. However the Ordinations of the 30th June, the feast of the First Martyrs of the See of Rome, at the Birmingham Oratory had the air of history being in the making. This was the largest group of ordinands since the “first wave” at the foundation of the Ordinariate, including two the first two men to have completed a full formation course through the Catholic seminary system: the first “home grown” vocations of the Ordinariate.

The ordinations took place at the Birmingham Oratory, founded by the UK Ordinariate’s patron: Blessed John Henry Newman; the first time such an event has taken place. The Ordinariate was able to use the church with the kind permission of the Provost and Fathers of that Oratory; whose welcome and assistance could not have been warmer or kinder. The Archbishop of Birmingham kindly agreed to ordain these men for the Ordinariate. They had been ordained to the diaconate last year at St. James Spanish Place in London by his Auxiliary, Robert Byrne. At the end of the Mass, the Archbishop remarked how honoured he was to have been asked to ordain, and what a privilege it was to use the Ordinariate Form. The Fathers of the Oratory also permitted the Archbishop the use of Cardinal Newman’s crozier.

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Ordination Report Building a new Presbytery

Over 450 people packed into the Oratory for the ordinations, coming from all corners of the country, and from overseas; including a seminarian from the Ordinariate of the Chair of Peter, who was in London on a placement, as well as many of those who had studied at Oscott with the two home grown vocations, and also members of the teaching staff there, including the rector, Canon David Oakley.What made the Ordinations of 30th June so very special however, was that they proved the Ordinariate is not dead, nor is it stagnating, but it continues to go from strength to strength. Christopher Smith, a member of the South London Ordinariate (the sending group of one of the new priests) said:“There were those who predicted that the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham would be a short-lived phenomena. Well, on Saturday a further 8 men were ordained Priest in our patron’s Oratory in Birmingham by the Archbishop of Birmingham and we look forward to more Parishes being given to the care of the Ordinariate.”

Please pray for the eight men ordained, and for the parishes and missions they will serve, and for more vocations to the Ordinariate:Frs Timothy Boniwell, Leonard Cox, Jonathan Creer, David Hathaway, David Jones, Thomas Mason, David Pritchard, Michael WardAlmighty God, give us priests:

to establish the honour of your holy name; to offer the holy sacrifice of the altar; to give us Jesus in the holy sacrament; to proclaim the faith of Jesus; to baptise and to teach the young; to tend your sheep; to seek the lost; to give pardon to the penitent sinner to bless our homes; to pray for the afflicted; to comfort mourners; to strengthen us in our last hour; to commend our souls;Almighty God, give us priests!

The Archbishop holding Bl John Henry Newman’s Crozier during the Gospel

Mgr Newton preaching to the Candidates

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The Newly Ordained at the Offertory

The Friends of the Ordinariate support many projects within the Ordinariate, both large and small. One of the largest projects we have leant our support to has been the building of a presbytery for the the parish of Our Lady of Walsingham with St Cuthbert Mayne in Torbay, as Fr David Lashbrooke explains: I would like to thank the FOTO for their generous support in the building of the new presbytery at

Our Lady of Walsingham with St Cuthbert Mayne, Torbay within the existing structure of the old Victorian hall. One of the major expenses of the project was the windows which are now renewed and bring the character of the building to life. The Friends, though their generosity, enabled this to happen. The presbytery is truly a wonderful space for

the priest and his family to live in and has also been designed so that if, in future years, more than one priest were to serve at Our Lady of Walsingham, there would also be space for him.One of the challenges facing the Ordinariate is stability and the project at Torbay has been influenced by this need. In this last year Our Lady of Walsingham has become a parish, which is another important step in bringing stability within the missionary context. As a parish we are blessed by a daily Mass using Divine Worship: the Missal and the highlight of the year is to be able to celebrate the Easter Triduum in all its beauty. We are laying the foundations so that we may be able to witness to Christ in the years to come. The generosity of all those who have contributed to the project financially, in time and in prayer has blessed the whole Ordinariate, especially the community at Our Lady of Walsingham, Torbay.

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Friends of the Ordinariate – 2018 Autumn/Winter


Forthcoming Events: First Friday of each month: 8am Mass at Our Lady of the Assumption & St Gregory, Warwick Street offered by the Ordinary for deceased benefactors of the Friends of the Ordinariate

Three Ordinaries’ Conference: October 2018

Epiphany Carol Service: January 2019

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Friends of the Ordinariate – 2018 Spring/Summer


The Friends of the Ordinariate support the work and mission of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham by providing financial and practical assistance. We warmly invite all those who share in the Holy See’s vision of Christian Unity and who wish to see the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham succeed to support us by making a financial donation. All are welcome to support the Friends of the Ordinariate, be they cradle Catholics, former members of the Church of England, or those who remain within the Anglican tradition but want the Ordinariate initiative to flourish.

Standing OrdersThe Friends encourage supporters to set up regular Standing Orders so that we can plan for the future on the basis of a regular, predictable, income. That does not exclude, of course, the possibility of providing one-off donations, which are most welcome.All those who agree to set up an annual Standing Order of £50.00 or more will receive two newsletters a year and will also be invited to Friends events. They will also be sent regular updates via email. Those who donate over £500.00 will be invited to events with Mgr Newton and the Trustees.To support the Ordinariate by Standing Order, please visit our website and fill in the Standing Order form on the ‘Donate’ page and, if you are a UK tax payer, the Gift Aid certificate, too. www.friendsoftheordinariate.org.uk/donate/

LegaciesIt is hoped that the work of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham will continue for many years to come and so we would ask that you remember the Friends of the Ordinariate when you come to write or update your Will. Legacies often form the backbone of any charity and we are grateful to all those who have remembered us in their Wills.

PayPal and Total GivingPayPal and Total Giving buttons are available on the Friends of the Ordinariate website for all those who would like to make an instant and secure payment. Please visit our ‘Donate’ page for more details and to make a payment. www. friendsoftheordinariate.org.uk/donate/

ChequesIf you would like to support our work by making a donation via cheque, please make cheques payable to ‘Friends of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham’ and send to:Friends of the Ordinariatec/o 24 Golden SquareLondon W1F 9JR

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The Friends on Social MediaThe Friends of the Ordinariate are active on social media, especially on Facebook. Please like our Facebook page: “Friends of the Ordinariate”!Our website is in the process of being updated. We hope to get this completed during the next three months. The website is: www.friendsoftheordinariate.org.ukWe post pictures of events on Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/friendsoftheordinariateIf your address has changed recently please notify us at [email protected]

For those familiar with the Anglo-Catholic movement in the Church of England, lapel badges are an important thing: the Society of Our Lady of Walsingham, The Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament, The Society of Mary, The Catholic League, The Society of the Holy Cross, all have their badges as an act of witness and support for their particular guild. The Ordinariate has continued this small part of the patrimony through the production of lapel badges bearing the coat of arms of the Ordinariate, and the Friends are proud to say that they have assisted in this production through a grant. Unlike those Anglican guilds it is not necessary to be a member of the Ordinariate to wear the badge, but rather it is a way of showing support for it. If you would like to display your support for the Ordinariate, and support its work, you can purchase lapel badges from: Ordinariate Lapel Badges, Ladies’ Ordinariate Group, 22 Redcross Way, London SE1 1TAThe price is £5 including postage. Please make cheques payable to “Ordinariate OLW”

Ordinariate Lapel Badges

GDPR ComplianceUnder new legislation which came into effect in May 2018, all public bodies, including charities are obliged to take greater steps to ensure the privacy of those persons whose information they hold on file.

To this effect, the Friends of the Ordinariate sent out a request form to all non-donors whose names are held on our database, asking for their explicit approval to remain on our database and have altered the information we hold accordingly.

Our database continues to be held in a secure manner, and is in no way accessible to anyone without appropriate authorisation. Nor will we use it for anything except to further our work of fund raising.

One of the many positive things the Ordinariate has brought to the life of the Catholic Church is a sacral language which has been in use for several centuries. That this has stood the test of time is due in no small way to the prose of Thomas Cranmer. We therefore hope to produce over the next few issues of this newsletter parts of his “godly prose”. The confession here produced is that of the Order of Mass for Divine Worship: The Missal.


Would you like to be a Friend of the Ordinariate?

The Friends of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham was established in 2011 to assist with the work of the newly erected Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham through practical and financial support. It was also established in order to raise awareness of the Personal Ordinariate’s life and mission within the wider Catholic community.

The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham was established by Benedict XVI on 15 January 2011 and is a special structure within the Catholic Church which allows former Anglicans to enter into full communion with the Pope while also retaining many of the treasures and gifts of their Anglican heritage. The Ordinariate groups and religious communities which have so far been set up in England and Wales represent an important development in the work of promoting Christian unity and a fundamental part of the New Evangelisation in England and Wales.

The Friends is a separate charity from the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, with its own trustees, but we work closely with the Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate, Monsignor Keith Newton, to identify areas where the Friends can be of assistance. Mgr Newton is also the President of the Friends.

The Friends of the Ordinariate charity gratefully receives donations from individuals and organisations who share in the Holy See’s vision of Christian unity, which has been made manifest in the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.

If you would like to help the Friends of the Ordinariate in our work of supporting the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, or would like to know more about our work or about the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, please complete the contact details on the form overleaf and send it either to: Friends of the Ordinariate, c/o 24 Golden Square, London W1F 9JR or The Administrator, Friends of the Ordinariate of OLW, 19 Spencelayh Close, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, NN8 4UU or email: [email protected]

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