Exploring an Irish Ordinariate: Pilgrims to unity and communion

Monday 13 June 2011

Pilgrims to unity and communion

Bishop Peter Elliott, a former Anglican and now Auxiliary Bishop in the Catholic Diocese of Melbourne, spoke an at Ordinariate Information Day in Victoria, Melbourne on 11th June. The full text of his speech can read at the Ordinariate Portal. He ended by encouraging all of us on the pilgrimage to unity and communion to emulate the Apostles by joining our Lady in prayer:

On the pilgrimage of the Ordinariate, whether we are walking the pilgrim way ourselves or joining others as companions or sponsors, we all pray as the apostles did in the upper room at Pentecost “with Mary the Mother of Jesus”. With her we ask the Holy Spirit the Paraclete to achieve through our lives the unity that is so dear the Heart of Christ our Lord.

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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.