Click here to view the February 2019 edition of The Portal on our sister community’s website. Members of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in the United Kingdom publish The Portal monthly.

It features news and comment, events, personalities, Catholic teaching, letters, features, Catholic and Anglican history as well as news from Ordinariate missions around the UK.

This edition includes:

• Page 3 “Three New Deacons” reported by Keith Brown
• Page 4 “Mob bullying & homosexuality” by Joanna Bogle
• Page 5 “The Ordinariate way of our patrimony” by Snapdragon
• Page 6 “Balancing Act” by Julia Beacroft
• Page 7 “Here am I Lord…” Ronald Crane speaks to Sister Marie Thérèse of the Carmelite Monastery in Wolverhampton
• Page 9 “Peace Sunday” by Fr Ashley Beck
• Page 10 “Septuagesima,” thoughts on Newman by Revd Dr Stephen Morgan
• Page 11 “Our Window on the CofE “ by The Revd Paul Benfield
• Page 12 “The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Galleries” by Jackie Ottaway and Ronald Crane
• Page 17 “The Aventine Hill” by Donato Tallo
• Page 18 “Two mins from the Skripals’!” by Jackie Ottaway and Ronald Crane
• Page 20 “Helping Syrian students to help others in need” by Josué Villaión
• Page 21 “Epiphany Carols” by Jackie Ottaway and Ronald Crane
• Page 22 “Anoint and cheer our soiléd face…” by Fr Michael Halsall
• Page 23 “Apologia Pro Beata Maria Virgine,” a review by Simon Dennerly
• Page 24 “Is all well at the Vatican?” by Geoffrey Kirk

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 features an article on Aid to the Church in Need, articles, writings, and sermons by contemporary and classic authors. It also has announcements of upcoming events and news and notes for our combined congregation and community.

This issue includes:

• “For Those Who Suffer on Account of the Cross of Christ” by John Pontifex, press officer for Aid to the Church in Need
• “Why Are We Here?,”  a sermon preached by Timothy Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York, at the Mass of the Vigil for Life, January 18, 2018
• “You Have to Have Peter” by Pope Leo the Great
• “A Mutual Relationship,” an excerpt from School for Prayer by Archbishop Anthony Bloom
• “The Love of God for Souls,” a sermon preached by Father Bradford
• “Goodness Gives Itself Away” by Bishop Robert Barron
• “The issue Does Not Go Away,” an article by Monsignor William M. Helmick

Come and celebrate Candlemas (otherwise known as the Presentation of our Lord or the Purification of Saint Mary the Virgin) with us on Saturday, February 2nd at 10:00 AM at St. Lawrence Church in Chestnut Hill.

The Liturgy will begin with the Blessing of Candles in the vestry room, followed by a Solemn Procession, Station, Solemn High Mass, and Sermon.

A light breakfast follows the service.

You may bring unused household candles for blessing. Please put your name on the wrapping.

Six members of our combined Community and Congregation will be going to Washington to march in the January 19, 2019 March for Life.

Please pray for safe travels and protection for Judie, Corrine, Ed, Steve, Pam, and John. Also pray for the goals of the march to change hearts and minds and to support the cause of life.

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 features a sermon of Bradford’s on the miracle at Cana, 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:

• “Before the Miracle,” a sermon by Father Bradford
• “Latecomers to the Faith,” an article from The Oratory Parish Magazine, the parish paper of the London (Brompton) Oratory
• “Offering Envelopes – Why and How,” a letter from the Finance Committee
• “The Name of Jesus,” an excerpt from the treatise, Against Heresies, by Saint lrenaeus
• “Invoking the Holy Name,” an excerpt from Prayer for Beginners, by parishioner Peter Kreeft
• “Charitable Giving,” a list of recommended charities from Father Bradford
• “He Has Said Everything in Christ,” an excerpt from a treatise on The Ascent of Mount Carmel by St John of the Cross
• “Protocol on Receiving Communion” by Father Bradford
• “Preaching Goes Ahead,” an article from a homily on the gospels by Pope Saint Gregory the Great

Click here to view the January 2019 edition of The Portal on our sister community’s website. Members of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in the United Kingdom publish The Portal monthly.

It features news and comment, events, personalities, Catholic teaching, letters, features, Catholic and Anglican history as well as news from Ordinariate missions around the UK.

This edition includes:

• Will Burton meets Fr Michael Woodgate, author of a new book, Devotion to the Precious Blood
• “What have LOGS been up to?” by Joanna Bogle
• “The bleak midwinter” by Snapdragon
• “Prayer and intercession,” Sister Mary Joseph talks with Jackie Ottaway and Ronald Crane
• Thoughts on World Peace Day from Fr Ashley Beck
• “When England returns to Walsingham, Our Lady will return to England,” the Revd Dr Stephen Morgan ponders this in relation to Blessed John Henry Newman
• The Revd Paul Benfield reports on the CofE Bishops’ announcement on a liturgy for transgender people
• “Burne-Jones at Tate Britain,” Jackie Ottaway and Ronald Crane visited the exhibition
• “Visit to Torbay,” Jackie Ottaway and Ronald Crane visit the Ordinariate’s first official parish
• “Working for the love of God – and the love of Haiti,”  John Newton reports
• “Devotion to the Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ,” a review by Fr Simon Ellis
• “God has called me by my Name,” the question is asked by Fr Michael Halsall
• “Gaudium Et Dolorem,” An oblique look at the crisis facing the Catholic Church at present by Fr Simon Ellis
• “What is it about Francis and gays?,” Geoffrey Kirk  shares his wonderings with us

Fr Bradford mailed us this letter for late Advent and Christmastide.

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