Exploring an Irish Ordinariate: Benediction in Oxford

Tuesday 14 June 2011

Benediction in Oxford

Tomorrow, 15th June, the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham will be celebrating Solemn Evensong and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament in the Blackfriars Priory Church, Oxford.

The location is, of course, of immense significance. Anglicanism's 19th century Catholic Revival started in Oxford. Now the hopes of the Oxford Movement are finding their fruition.

Let us pray that the members of the Ordinariate will be renewed in their mission through adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.

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An Ordinariate for Ireland?

The recognition of the riches of the Anglican tradition by Pope Benedict XVI in the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus has offered the hope of the reconciliation of the Anglican tradition to the See of Peter after centuries of separation.

The creation of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in England and preparations for Ordinariates in the United States, Canada and Australia demonstrate how many Anglicans across the globe are responding to the promise of Anglicanorum Coetibus.

The burden of a painful and divisive past has meant that there is little, if any, expectation of an Ordinariate in Ireland. This, however, does not have to be case. The ARCIC process, initiated by Pope Paul VI and Archbishop Michael Ramsey in 1967, achieved significant agreement between Anglicans and Roman Catholics with regard to the Eucharist, Ministry, Authority, the Church, Justification and the Blessed Virgin Mary, offering the hope of healing the rupture of the 16th century. Anglicanorum Coetibus builds on this hope.

For those Anglicans in Ireland who believe that Anglicanorum Coetibus should be prayerfully explored, this blog is offered as an arena for discussion.

The blog is run by an Irish Anglican and is a personal endeavour.