Our former Anglican Catholic Church of Canada (ACCC) bishop Carl Reid will be ordained to the transitional diaconate this Saturday, Jan. 12 at 10:00 a.m. at St. Patrick’s Basilica.
Archbishop Terrence Prendergast, SJ will preside.
I hope to see many of our friends and well-wishers at this joyous occasion for us.
The Archbishop will ordain Carl Reid a Catholic priest on Saturday Jan. 26 at 10:00 a.m. at Notre Dame Cathedral Basilica. Msgr. Jeffrey Steenson, the Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, will deliver the homily.
Here is Carl Reid, Fr. Francis Donnelly, CC, our mentor priest who has guided our journey before and after our reception into the Catholic Church, and Msgr. Steenson during his last visit to Ottawa.
Our dean Fr. Lee Kenyon, dean of the Ordinariate’s Canadian Deanery of St. John the Baptist, will deliver the homily when Fr. Carl celebrates his first Mass on {UPDATE: CORRECTS TYPO}Sunday Jan. 27 at 12:30 p.m. at Blessed Sacrament Parish, 4th Avenue, the Glebe, in Ottawa. Our parish building is too small to accommodate all the people we expect to join us on that happy day.
Fr. Kenyon is shown here with [Fr] Doug Hayman and his wife Carolyn down in Houston. We hope that [Fr] Doug and [Fr Kipling Cooper] will be ordained to the Catholic priesthood sometime this spring. Please keep us all in your prayers and see you Saturday!
I won’t be able to be there this Sunday but I hope to attend “Bp.” Carl’s priestly ordination and first Mass.
God bless the Church on this joyous occasion.
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Congratulations to soon-to-be Fr. Carl!
Even Msgr. Steenson’s ready to open a champagne bottle while cutting the cake! That’s some fancy corkscrew.
Exciting!
A small style question: is it appropriate to use “transitional diaconate” and “permanent diaconate”- especially in reference to ordination? They refer to the same sacramental reality. One can’t be “ordained” to a status in canon law.
It’s become common usage. I don’t like it to be honest; a deacon, is a deacon, is a deacon. On the other hand it is useful shorthand. Interestingly one of the OLW clergy who was a non-stipendary priest in the CofE, is now a “permanent” deacon as he is a circuit judge, and Canon Law prohibits priests from being public office holders. Once he retires he’ll be eligible to be priested.
gabrielthursday,
You asked: A small style question: is it appropriate to use “transitional diaconate” and “permanent diaconate”- especially in reference to ordination? They refer to the same sacramental reality. One can’t be “ordained” to a status in canon law.
From a theological perspective, you are quite correct. The deaconate is the deaconate. It is the same sacrament of orders, regardless of whether it is “transitional” or “permanent.”
But from an administrative perspective, the distinction is very real. Those who receive the deaconate en route to the presbyterate are typically still in seminary, and any assignment to assist in a parish during that period is temporary (typically less than a year) so administrative responsibilities within the respective diocese typically remain with the director or office of vocations, which oversees recruiting and seminary formation. Those who receive the deaconate as a permanent vocation (that is, with no intention of going on to the prebyterate), by contrast, fall under the diocesan office that oversees the permanent deaconate, encompassing all aspects thereof (recruiting, formation, and assignment) and typically receive permanent (indefinite) assignment to a parish or chaplaincy.
Norm.
There is another permanent deacon to be ordained soon in the ordinariate of OLW. He was due to be ordained as such in the CofE but a few days before this, his parish was received in the ordinariate.
+ pax et bonum
Wonderful!
Your prayers have been answered, Deborah!
Sorry I am a litle late but thank you all for your courage and perseverance! I have been much consoled by your long journey home which I followed closely in the year or two prior to the Apostolic Constitution.
With much gratitude, daily prayers, and God’s Blessing+,
Fr Tony Van Hee, S.J.