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.

Click here to view the September 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.

They publish The Portal 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:

• “The Fragility of Orders” by Ronald Crane 
• “ Walsingham, Oxford, and off to Liverpool” by Joanna Bogle
• “Clamavi in toto corde meo,”  Snapdragon on the current crisis in the Church
• “Ordinariate Carmelites?” by Simon Dennerly 
• “Ordinariate Lay Conference” by Jackie Ottaway and Ronald Crane 
• “The Abuse of Children” by Fr Ashley Beck
• “Despair,” thoughts on Newman by Revd Dr Stephen Morgan 
• “Around the Blogs” by Arnold Herron
• “News from the Ordinariate around the UK”
• “Offered, Blessed, Broken and Shared,” Will Burton looks forward to the Eucharistic Congress in Liverpool
• “The Church Will Always Stand up for Peace and Mercy,” Murcadha O Flaherty reports on events in the Philippines
• “Devotions to the Sacred Heart of Jesus,” a book review by Mgr Robert Mercer CR
• “Cream of the Crop” by Julia Beacroft
• Obituary: Father Donald Minchew 1948-2018 by The Rt Revd Mgr John Broadhurst
• “The Fruits of Reading During a Stay in Hospital” by Geoffrey Kirk

Past issues of The Portal are archived here on the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham website.

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

Dr. Scott Hahn will be at St. Mary’s Church, 8 South Common St, Lynn, MA 01902 from 9:00 AM to 03:30 PM. Don’t miss Scott Hahn and the St. Paul Center for a powerful presentation on the riches of our Catholic faith. He will be giving three 90-minutes talks. The schedule for day is here.

Tickets are $25 per person and may be reserved by calling the Collaborative Offices at (781) 598-4907 or emailing Chris Carmody.

If interested, please let Corrine Paige know (email).

At 10:00 in the morning on Monday, September 3rd (the Monday of the Labor Day weekend) Father Bradford will celebrate a Solemn High Mass at Saint Lawrence Church for the Feast of Saint Gregory the Great.

This is the sixth annual Feast of Title for the Community of St Gregory the Great. All are invited to share this joyous occasion.

Join us at St. Lawrence Church in Chestnut Hill on Tuesday evening at 7:30 PM for a Vigil Mass for the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

This is a holy day of obligation and attending this Vigil Mass fulfills that obligation.

The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, which includes the countries in the United Kingdom, was established in 2011 as the first of the Personal Ordinariates.

Members of this Ordinariate publish THE PORTAL monthly for those in the Personal Ordinariates of the Catholic Church, Anglicans who are interested in the Ordinariate, and all Catholic friends of the Ordinariates.

Click here to read the August 2018 edition of THE PORTAL on our sister community’s website. This month’s edition features:

• “What does the word ‘marriage’ mean in 2018?” by Ronald Crane
• “Freedom of speech v. hate speech in the UK,” a warning call by Joanna Bogle
• “Slithy Toves” by Snapdragon
• “A Visit to Kent” by Jackie Ottaway and Ronald Crane
• “Solidarity” by Fr Ashley Beck
• Thoughts on Newman: “The Psalter” by Revd Dr Stephen Morgan
• Anglican News: “CofE General Synod Report” by the Revd Paul Benfield
• “Well, she’s in the Customary!” Jackie Ottaway and Ronald Crane visit Kemsing in Kent to find out about St Edith of Wilton, a little known Saint
• News from the Ordinariate: “Eight new priests for the Ordinariate”
• “Like yeast that a woman took” by Br Robert Augustine
• “How you might support the Ordinariate Cause,” an interesting initiative reported by Simon Dennerly
• Aid to the Church in Need: “In Colombia and elsewhere, Christ ‘came to suffer for his people and with his people’” reported by Murcadha O Flaherty
• “Walsingham’s Darkest Hour” reported by Antonia Moffat
• “The National Memorial Arboretum” by Jackie Ottaway and Ronald Crane
• “Did ‘Humanae Vitae’ cause bitter division in the Church?” Geoffrey Kirk thinks not

The August issue of our parish paper features an article by Deacon Michael J. Connolly titled, “Pax Tecum.” As Deacon Connolly wrote, “So, as we consider August the month of peace, we may fairly ask what we mean with this commonly used and abused term peace.”

If you signed up to receive Contra Mundum by mail, you should receive your August 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:

• “Pax Tecum,” an article by the Revd Deacon Michael J. Connolly
• “On Salvation,” excerpt from the Declaration Dominus Iesus by Joseph Cardinal Ratzingerpublished by the CDF on August 6, 2000
• “How Things Work in the Kingdom,” a sermon preached by Father Bradford in St Theresa of Ávila Church, August 17, 2011
• “Trained to Detect a Person,” an article by the Revd Albert J. Byrne from the parish bulletin of The Cathedral of St Catherine of Siena, Allentown, PA
• “Dwelling in the Loftiest Citadel of Virtue,” an excerpt from a sermon on the Blessed Virgin Mary by St Amadeus of Lausanne (1110-59)
• “Recognizing Jesus” by St Basil (c.329-379), one of the Four Greek Doctors of the Church
• “A Prayer” from St Stephen’s Church, Gloucester Rd London
• “From a Bible Given to World War II Servicemen,” an inscription by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President of the United States

On Wednesday, August 22, 2018, organist Dong-Ill Shin will present an organ recital at the Methuen Memorial Music Hall, 192 Broadway, Methuen, Mass. The recital starts at 8:00 pm, with doors opening at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $12.00.

Shin is the winner of the 20th Grand Prix de Chartres, and has been hailed as “one of the world’s most promising talents of his generation”. He made his debut at the age of 11 years with the Pusan Philharmonic Orchestra playing Mozart’s Concerto in D minor No. 20. He has received many awards and has several notable performances and recitals to date (Europe, Asia and North America).You can read more about him here.

Our own organist, Jim Reedy, promises it will be a spectacular evening. If you like listening to the organ during Mass and Evensong, then you won’t want to miss this! If interested, please let Corrine know.