Monthly Archives: October 2013

The Madonna House priest is blogging on the Beatitudes. Blessed are the pure of heart. But our hearts are wayward, obstinate, changeable, fickle. Mine is, anyhow. Nor has it been my experience, 47 years into the experiment of human life, … Continue reading →

Let’s have a survey.   This will be unscientific of course and depend on who from the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter actually reads my blog. How many of our parishes (I know, I know, sodalities, zzzzzzzzzzzz … Continue reading →

Here’s the start of a promised detailed series of posts on our new Divine Worship from the Fellowship of St. Alban in Rocherster, New York website: What’s different and why The Order of Holy Mass for use by the Ordinariates … Continue reading →

And, if so, what should that Congregation for the Laity look like? Should half of its members be women?  What kind of women?  Homemakers and mothers?  Professional women? Lay apostolate leaders?  Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion type lay people? Cardinal … Continue reading →

Thanks to Ordinariate Expats, a link to Jan Meeks glorious testimony.  She is the wife of Fr. Ed Meeks who is now a Catholic priest with the Ordinariate community of Christ the King in the Baltimore diocese.  

From Gerard O’Conner at Vatican Insider, this interview with Cardinal Pell:   The Australian cardinal George Pell, one of the eight cardinals that Pope Francis has chosen to advice  him, agreed to talk about his experience of their historic meeting (October … Continue reading →

Bishop Richard Gagnon has been a great friend to the Ordinariate and our clergy and parish out in Victoria, B.C. He will be leaving soon to become Archbishop of Winnipeg, following the retirement announced today of Archbishop James Weisgerber, who … Continue reading →

Here’s the good news, which Fr. Lee Kenyon, the Dean of the Canadian Deanery of St. John the Baptist of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter has put into the comments section: The four men who have … Continue reading →

My song for today after lots of good news in our parish this morning, including a quick run through of the changes to expect when we start our official Divine Worship in Advent.     I keep thinking about what … Continue reading →

Fr. Denis Lemieux writes on the Beatitudes.  Please read the whole thing! But what a strange beauty the Beatitudes show us. An upside down beauty, a crazy beauty. ‘Blessed are the poor in spirit’ – what does that mean? Our normal human … Continue reading →