Marylebone Ordinariate Group: Falling on deaf ears

Tuesday, 9 July 2013

Falling on deaf ears

We came across an excellent article written by a young Catholic about the generational divide in attitudes to the liturgy when reading the great 'blog produced by Fr Ed Tomlinson, a priest of the Ordinariate based in Tunbridge Wells. Do make your way over to his 'blog to read more. Another example of Generation Benedict.

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Jon9 July 2013 at 15:20
Becket,

What happened to the post on the new Order of Mass? I was very excited to read it. I imagine you were asked to remove it because at this point it's ad experimentum.

At any rate, I'm hoping nonetheless that the entire thing is leaked out here on the blogosphere by some unscrupulous soul. I was delighted by what I read, but dismayed at the Novus Ordo options.

Praying for you from here in the USA.
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Anonymous9 July 2013 at 15:37
You had a very interesting and, I thought, balanced post on the new material for Ordinariate Mass. I forwarded on to someone who is very interested in the Ordinariate but when I went back to reread it myself it was gone.I trust this is just a techie glitch and it will be re-posted?
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Anonymous9 July 2013 at 16:57
Yes, too bad your excellent post on the new Ordinariate litugy was removed. I think you are spot on about the traditional offertory prayers. They make the sacrificial character of the mass very clear. We need clarity and Tradition. Praise God that our priests use these prayers in other Ordinariates.
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Et Expecto29 August 2013 at 18:23
This year's Walsingham pilgrimage, organised by the Latin Mass Society, was bigger and better. About 70 walked the 55 miles from Ely to Walsingham. There was Solemn Mass each day, and plenty of singing along the route.
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Blessed John Henry Newman on the hope for Reunion

… I gather up and bear in memory those familiar affectionate companions and counsellors, who in Oxford were given to me, one after another, to be my daily solace and relief; and all those others, of great name and high example, who were my thorough friends, and showed me true attachment in times long past….

And I earnestly pray for this whole company, with a hope against hope, that all of us, who once were so united, and so happy in our union, may even now be brought at length, by the Power of the Divine Will, into One Fold and under One Shepherd.

Apologia pro Vita Sua

Blessed John Henry Newman's Prayer for Unity

O Lord Jesus Christ, who when Thou wast about to suffer didst pray for Thy disciples to the end of time that they might all be one, as Thou art in the Father and the Father in Thee, look down in pity on the manifold divisions among those who profess Thy faith and heal the many wounds which the pride of man and the craft of Satan have inflicted on Thy people.

Break down the walls of separation which divide one party and denomination of Christians from another. Look with compassion on the souls who have been born in one or other of these communions, which not Thou, but man, hath made.

Set free the prisoners from these unauthorised forms of worship, and bring them all to the one communion which Thou didst set up at the beginning – the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church.

Teach all men that the See of Peter, the Holy Church of Rome, is the foundation, centre, and instrument of Unity. Open their hearts to the long forgotten truth that the Holy Father, the Pope, is Thy Vicar and representative; and that in obeying him in matters of religion they are obeying Thee, so that as there is but one company in heaven above, so likewise there may be one communion, confessing and glorifying Thy holy Name, here below. Amen

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Let us also pray with all our heart and mind and strength that our vitally important ecumenical journey with our Greek and Russian Orthodox brethren will continue apace, that our charitable and respectful dialogue with them will bear much fruit, so that the universal Church might once again breathe with two whole lungs, and so that soon there may be but one flock and one shepherd. Domine, ut sit!