The Personal Ordinariates established under the provisions of Anglicanorum Coetibus represent, as the late Mgr Mark Langham called them, “realised ecumenism”. As the first English Ordinary appointed after its publication in 2010, I naturally wanted to be present at Pope Benedict’s funeral. Usually in Rome I stay at the Venerable English College, which is the

I was in our community chapel, just before Mass, when I received a message that Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI had died. My immediate reaction was a whispered “thank you” to him, for we have so much to be grateful to him for. Without him and without Anglicanorum Coetibus, his Apostolic Constitution that made it possible for groups of Anglicans to enter into full communion with the Holy See, we might not be here at all.

The embodiment of this personal journey, which I have always seen as growing from a personal bond with Pope Benedict, came in Anglicanorum coetibus in 2010. The personal ordinariates are the most tangible legacy of Benedict’s pontificate, permanently establishing in structures his liturgical and ecclesiological vision. This is of course why his loss is for us at once a cause for sadness and gratitude.

We will miss him immensely, and we mourn his passing, but we also know that the richness of his thought and his convictions continue in our communities, in our worship, and in the lives of thousands of former Anglicans who now rejoice in the full communion and peace of what St John Henry Newman calls “the one fold of the Redeemer”.

The ordination of Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, the former Anglican Bishop of Rochester, as a priest of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham took place on Saturday 30th October at the Church of the Assumption, Warwick Street. He had been ordained a Catholic deacon two days before at the Chapel of Oscott, where St John

The 10 men are expected to be ordained as priests next year

The Chapel of Reconciliation at Walsingham will host a Western, Melkite and Ordinariate Rite Mass on Saturday

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