The St Thomas of Canterbury Society is an Ordinariate-bound community establishing itself in Washington DC. In a Virginia Catholic parish it recently held Evensong and Benediction attended by 140 people and has regularly celebrated Evensong in St Anslem's Abbey, a Benedictine institution. According to the Society's website it has now also been invited by Holy Spirit Catholic parish in Virginia to hold regular Anglican-Use services. (One member of the community runs a blog, Seward's Folly - Reflections of an Episcopalian reconciled to Rome.)
It provides another example of how a community of lay Anglicans can gather in response to Anglicanorum Coetibus, pray within the Anglican patrimony and prepare to be received into communion with Peter.
Word's from Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral spring to mind:
We thank Thee for Thy mercies of blood, for Thy redemp-
tion by blood. For the blood of Thy marytrs and saints
Shall enrich the earth, shall create the holy places ...
Blessed Thomas, pray for us.
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