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| Fr Christopher Pearson, Fr Christopher Lindlar, Fr Nicholas Leviseur, Fr Simon Heans, Deacon James Bradley, Archbishop Peter Smith, Mgr Keith Newton, Fr Ivan Aquilina, Fr Edward Tomlinson and Fr Stephen Bould |
Yesterday Archbishop Peter Smith ordained seven former anglican clergy to the priesthood during a Mass at St George's Cathedral, Southwark. As the Southwark diocesan website says:
Apart from the ordination of three former Anglican bishops in January, this was the first priestly ordination of former Anglican clergy and begins a wave that will continue throughout the month, with more than 50 ordinations expected.Archbishop Smith's Homily
Photos at the diocese's Flickr site
Sevenoaks Ordinariate Picasa page
Some other articles of interest from the Ordinariate Portal:
Christian Post: 54 Anglican Clergy to defect to Catholic Church in Pentecost Ordinations
Zenit: Ordinariate begins Wave of Priestly Ordinations
Francis Phillips: ARCIC III – After the creation of the Personal Ordinariate there’s not much left to talk about
It's so easy for a cradle Catholic like me to regard the faults I see within the Church with a knowing cynicism and a don't-know-why-I-bother shrug.
ReplyDeleteAnd yet, and yet. When I see wonderful events like this I am almost overcome by emotion, because I am reminded by Christ through these men and all those in the Ordinariate that He will endure.
" .......and behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world."