Welcome!
I would like to welcome you to the official website of the newly-created Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham and invite you to find out more about the Ordinariate’s structure and purpose. Much has been written about the Ordinariate in recent months, and I am very happy to have this opportunity to present to you a true picture of the Ordinariate as it grows and develops.
Anglicanorum coetibus, which means Groups of Anglicans, is the framework within which our work is based. This document, an Apostolic Constitution, was published on 4th November 2009 by Pope Benedict XVI. It is a most generous response to requests made during the last 20 years from Anglican groups located around the world who were seeking a closer bond with the Catholic Church. Not only the title, but also the whole document, emphasise that the Ordinariate exists for those Bishops, Priests and People in the Anglican Communion who seek to enter the Catholic Church and be in full communion with the Successor of Peter: not just those who seek to enter it now, but those who will do so in years to come; and who retain a love and a gratitude for the Anglican forms of faith and worship which are part of the Church’s heritage, and which make up what is called our patrimony.
For those of us joining the Ordinariate there are feelings of trepidation and excitement. Although many of us have left the relative comfort of places we have come to call home, there is real excitement at being involved in this new ecclesial structure. It will, we believe, bring us a step closer to the vision of Unity and Truth that we have worked towards for many years.
This website can only give a glimpse of the Ordinariate. First and foremost, we are a Catholic Christian community in communion with the Pope and attentive to our Anglican heritage. I invite those of you who may be considering joining the Ordinariate to explore the site but, above all else, to make contact with your local group. I can assure you of absolute discretion so as to ensure that the process of discernment, of the rightness or otherwise of joining the Ordinariate, is as clear for you as possible.
May our Patron Blessed John Henry Newman, and Our Lady of Walsingham guide you in your journey of faith and pray for us all as we each seek to do God’s will.
Fr Keith Newton, Ordinary
http://www.ordinariate.org.uk/
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