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You are so right in your comments. The Ordinariate will take time to grow, over years probably and there will be set backs. But it will grow. Once the first Ordinariate groups have become established, other interested groups will follow. It is important that the first groups are an example of what can be achived. When this is seen by others, they too will want to join the Catholic church.
The Holy Father on his visit last year spoke of the secularisation of society and how bad this was. The Ordinariate will lead to greater Christian unity and help promote Christian values within our society.
The Ordinariate will show the things that unite Catholics and Anglicans. It will lead to history being made and best of all, it is history that we can make ourselves for the Christian good of this country.
Auntie has learned, with mingled pleasure and amusement, that her Blog annoys some people, especially angry dogmatic ones, and entertains and encourages others of a gentler sort. This has confirmed her decision to continue blogging although Auntie's life is busy and she has duties and responsibilities which on the whole she knows to be of more importance.
Auntie enjoys (although not neccesarily in this order)her work (writer, biographer, historian) and domestic duties, academic studies(Maryvale Institute), family, friends, and community responsibilities. She relishes the new translation of the Mass, the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, her own excellent local Catholic parish, traditional hymns (especially, perhaps, Anglican ones) rain, good literature, sleep, the English coast, Autumn, buttered toast, and a number of other things too precious and important to list here. She feels priviledged to belong to a Church which produced John Paul II and Benedict XVI and she finds their teachings an inspiration.
3 comments:
I love it!! and I'm praying every day for this.
Thanks Joanna,
Im trying to find the words to describe how I felt reading this entry.
Best I can come up with is a birth. And as with any birth, there will be labor pains. But a sense of joy, tears and trepidation.
The new ordinariate will be in my prayers, as all of you will.
Dear Joanna,
You are so right in your comments. The Ordinariate will take time to grow, over years probably and there will be set backs. But it will grow. Once the first Ordinariate groups have become established, other interested groups will follow. It is important that the first groups are an example of what can be achived. When this is seen by others, they too will want to join the Catholic church.
The Holy Father on his visit last year spoke of the secularisation of society and how bad this was. The Ordinariate will lead to greater Christian unity and help promote Christian values within our society.
The Ordinariate will show the things that unite Catholics and Anglicans. It will lead to history being made and best of all, it is history that we can make ourselves for the Christian good of this country.
Best wishes and prayers,
Henry Ledger.
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