Christmastide Schedule

Christmas Eve

8:00 PM Monday, December 24, 2018
Procession and Blessing of the Creche
Solemn Mass and Sermon

Christmas Day

10:30 AM Tuesday, December 25, 2018
Sung Mass and Sermon
Christmas is a Holy Day of Obligation

The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph

11:30 AM Sunday, December 30, 2018
Solemn Mass and Sermon

The Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God

10:30 AM Tuesday, January 1, 2019
Solemn Mass and Sermon
Holy Day of Obligation

The Epiphany of the Lord

11:30 AM Sunday, January 6, 2019
Procession, Noveritis, Solemn Mass and Sermon

5:00 PM A Festival of Lessons and Carols
A reception will follow this service

In this December edition of Musings of the Ordinary, Monsignor Harry Entwistle, Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross relates that “In celebrating the birth of Our Lord Jesus at Christmas, we are celebrating the fact that because God became human, there must be something about humanity that enables God to be encountered through it.”

Click here to view the December 2018 edition of The Portal on our sister community’s website

Members of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham publish The Portal monthly. This ordinariate, established in 2011, was the first of the Personal Ordinariates and includes the countries in the United Kingdom. The Portal is for those in the Personal Ordinariates of the Catholic Church, Anglicans who are interested in the Ordinariate, and all Catholic friends of the Ordinariates.

This edition includes:

• “Ordinariate Blogs,” Will Burton has been reading some of them
• “Christmas celebrations” by Joanna Bogle
• “Change and decay I all around me see, but” by Snapdragon
• “All white now” by Julia Beacroft
• “EWTN at Walsingham,” Jackie Ottaway and Ronald Crane chat with Norman Servais
• Catholic Social Teaching: “Remembrancetide,” Fr Ashley Beck has three points to make
• Thoughts on Newman: “Turning of the Year” by Revd Dr Stephen Morgan
• Anglican News: “Forward in Faith National Assembly” by the Revd Paul Benfield
• “A modern day hermit” by Jackie Ottaway & Ronald Crane
• News from the Ordinariate around the UK
• “Mr Pugin,” a review by Libby Crane
• Aid to the Church in Need: “The Church in Syria” by Murcadha O’Flaherty
• “A Pocket Catechism for Kids,” a review by Fr Simon Ellis
• “The Abolition of Woman,” a book review by Fiorella Nash
• “The Saint Peter Gradual,” an experienced-based review by Fr David Lashbrooke
• “‘Synodality’,” its meaning and uses,” an examination by Geoffrey Kirk

The December issue of Contra Mundum, our parish paper is focused on the season of Advent.

If you signed up to receive Contra Mundum by mail, you should receive your issue soon. You can also read it here on our website as well as all of the back issues.

This issue contains articles and writings by noted contemporary and classic authors, as well as announcements of upcoming events and news and notes for our combined congregation and community.

This issue includes:

• “The Old Story Made New,” a sermon preached by Father Bradford on Advent Sunday
• “Inclusion in Mary’s Grace”  by Father Romanus Cessario, OP,  a Dominican priest and professor of systematic theology in St John’s Seminary
• “Weaving the Fabric of His Designs” by Jacques Benigne Bossuet, a French preacher and bishop, among the greatest preachers of all time
• “Both Sides Are True,” an excerpt by Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson from his Confessions of a Convert
• “The Perfect Place for Adventures” by Dr Regis Martin, professor of dogmatic and systematic theology in Franciscan University, Steubenville, Ohio
• “Humanae Vitae” by Fr Peter M.J. Stravinskas, widely known as an educator, writer, and preacher
• “Where am I in all this” by Melinda Knight, a frequent contributor to Magnificat magazine
• “To restore the presence of Christ,” an excerpt by Servant of God, Chiara Lubich, from Christmas Joy: Spiritual Insights

Solemn Mass in the Ordinariate Form at 9:00 A.M. in Saint Lawrence Church in Chestnut Hill

Holy Day of Obligation

Click here to view the November 2018 edition of The Portal on our sister community’s website.

Members of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham publish The Portal monthly. This ordinariate, established in 2011, was the first of the Personal Ordinariates and includes the countries in the United Kingdom.

The Portal is for those in the Personal Ordinariates of the Catholic Church, Anglicans who are interested in the Ordinariate, and all Catholic friends of the Ordinariates.

This month’s cover illustrates the article on the Pilgrimage made by the Three Ordinaries.

This month’s edition contains these articles:

• “Sacrifice or Meal? Now that is the question!” Ronald Crane reflects on the Pilgrimage and Congress Adoremus 
• “LOGS and Walsingham,” an enthusiastic account by Joanna Bogle
• “Mind the gap” November musings from Snapdragon
• “Remember, Remember,“ Julia Beacroft  remembers November
• Pilgrimage to Our Lady of Walsingham,” an exclusive report for The Portal by Jean Chinery, Jackie Ottaway and Ronald Crane on the Pilgrimage made by the Three Ordinaries, clergy, wives and others 
• “Deacons” by Fr Ashley Beck 
• “Thoughts on Newman:  Recapitulation” by Revd Dr Stephen Morgan 
• Anglican News: What goings on in Lancashire!,” The Revd Paul Benfield has quite a tale to tell!
• “Ordinary days in London,” David Chapman reports
• “The Ordinariate’s First Ad Limina visit,” a report by Mgr Keith Newton on the September visit
• Aid to the Church in Need: “Praying for Pakistan’s suffering Church,” Murcadha O’Flaherty reports
• “Vocations and Formation” by the Ordinariate’s Director of Vocations & Formation, Fr Michael Halsall, explains part of the formation course at Allen Hall 
• Around the Blogs: “Will Burton  has been reading Catholic Blogs”
• Obituary: Mgr Paul Watson R.I.P

If you signed up to receive Contra Mundum by mail, you should receive your November issue soon. You can also read it here on our website as well as all of the back issues.

This issue contains articles and writings by noted contemporary and classic authors, as well as announcements of upcoming events and news and notes for our combined congregation and community:

• • “For Departed Souls,” an article by the Provost in the November, 2012 issue of The Oratory, the parish paper of the Brampton (London) Oratory.
  • “Why Go to Funerals?,” an article from the parish paper of The Church of the Good Shepherd (Episcopal) in East Chicago, Indiana
  • “The Prayers of the Saints,” a sermon preached by Father Bradford in St Theresa of Ávila Church on April 6, 2006
  • “The Guy Whose Name Is on the Door,” an opinion piece by Alex Beam, a regular columnist in The Boston Globe, on October 8, 2018
  • “Development of Doctrine” by Saint Vincent of Lerins who wrote his Commonitorium c. 434 as guidance on orthodox teaching of the faith
  • “Exit from Islam,” an editorial in the April 6, 2018 edition of the Catholic Herald Magazine
  • “Perspectives on Adoption,” an excerpt from an article in the Summer 2018 magazine of Massachusetts Citizens for Life

Click here to view the October 2018 edition of The Portal on our sister community’s website.

Members of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham publish The Portal monthly. This ordinariate established in 2011 was the first of the Personal Ordinariates and includes the countries in the United Kingdom.

The Portal is for those in the Personal Ordinariates of the Catholic Church, Anglicans who are interested in the Ordinariate, and all Catholic friends of the Ordinariates.

This month’s edition features:

• “Time to dust off those beads” by Br Robert Augustine
• “Sexual propaganda in school” by Joanna Bogle
• “Kind Hearts and Coronets” by Snapdragon
• “Spare thou them, O God, which confess their faults,” Jackie Ottaway and Ronald Crane at the Conference of the Prayer Book Society
• “Our Lady and the Three Kings,” Fr Len Black and the Ordinariate in Scotland visit Haddington
• “Oscar Romero,” Catholic Social Teaching by Fr Ashley Beck
• “Newman on Poetry by Revd Dr Stephen Morgan
• “Our window into the CofE” by The Revd Paul Benfield
• “Adoremus!” Jackie Ottaway and Ronald Crane at the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage and Congress
• News from the Ordinariate around the UK
• “Christians in Iraq” by Murcadha O’Flaherty
• “Noblesse Oblige,” book review by Fr Simon Ellis of Father Ignatius Spencer by Gerard Skinner
• “Worth waiting for…” by Julia Beacroft
• “Bishops and their oversight,” Geoffrey Kirk’s thoughts on the clerical abuse scandal

The October issue of our parish paper features an article by Father Bradford, “Treating the Whole Affair Lightly” in response to the current crisis in the Church. As Father writes, “Those who want to practice immorality must repent and amend their lives. So too must those who treat the whole affair lightly.”

If you signed up to receive Contra Mundum by mail, you should receive your October issue soon. You can also read it here on our website as well as all of the back issues.

This issue also includes articles and writings by noted contemporary and classic authors, as well as announcements of upcoming events and news and notes for our combined congregation and community:

• “Treating the Whole Affair Lightly” by Father Bradford
• “Protecting the Young from Evil” by Saint Joseph Calasanz (1557-1648) whose pioneering work was a model for St John Bosco and the Salesian schools
• “Practice What You Believe,” an excerpt from a sermon by Dr. James DeKoven, an Anglican priest and educator
• “Contemplating the Mysteries of Salvation,” an excerpt of a sermon by St Bernard of Clairvaux, a French abbot and major leader in the reform of Benedictine monasticism
• “Dismal Little Germs” by the Provost from the The Oratory Parish Magazine, the parish paper of the Brompton (London) Oratory.

The September issue of our parish paper features an article by Father Bradford,“The Most Splendid Thing in the World,” in honor of Holy Cross Day, “the special occasion outside of Holy Week when the Church glories in the Cross of Christ. To say that is to use the language of St Paul. He wrote to the Galatians ‘God forbid that I should glory, save in the Cross of Our Lord Jesus Christ.’ (6.14)”

If you signed up to receive Contra Mundum by mail, you should receive your September issue soon. You can also read it here on our website as well as all of the back issues.

This issue also includes a sermon by Fr Bradford and articles and writings by noted contemporary and classic authors, as well as announcements of upcoming events and news and notes for our combined congregation and community:

• “The Most Splendid Thing in the World,” an article by Fr Richard Bradford
• “The Great Desire of Love is Toward Eternity,” a sermon preached by Father Bradford
• “The Power of Prayer, Penance, and Sacrifice,” an article by the Provost from The Oratory Parish Magazine of the Brampton (London) Oratory
• “On the Love of Christ” by St Alphonsus Ligouri, a Doctor of the Church
• “Our Lady’s Nativitye,” a poem by St Robert Southwell, a Jesuit priest and martyr
• “Rules To Live By,” an article about Chris Pratt by Robert Steiner
• “How It All Began, Part II” by Father Bradford
• “Some Things Never Change” by New York Times columnist Christopher F. Schuetze