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About Me
- Joanna Bogle
- 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.
God bless our new Pope Francis
2 comments:
Many think the Ordinariate is entirely unnecessary. I read recently that in the Archdiocese of Westminster there are only fifteen lay members divided into three congregations. Many prospective converts from Anglicanism have no wish to have anything to do with it but prefer to enter by the front door, not via an annexe. How can these disperate groups scattered throughout the country in mostly small numbers be realistic agents of evangelism? Many Ordinariate clerics are behaving like fish out of water.
The Pope thought it was necessary.
All the people in our group felt called to be in this. They have had their faith deepened by the experience of leaving what they loved come into full communion with Rome.
We have also found that it has helped several Catholics, who were originally Anglicans have found that it has helped reflect on their own journey.
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