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2pm (Nov-Mar), 3pm (Apr-Oct) (Divine Worship), Sorbie DG8 8AN MASS: 1st Sunday 10.30am (Divine
2nd Sun: Evens & Ben 4pm; Our Lady of Pity, Worship); 3rd Sunday various locations - contact
SwaffhamCONTACT: Fr Gordon Adam: 01553 Fr Simon for details and directions), CONTACT: Fr
777428 - gordon.adam@ ordinariate.org.uk Dcn Simon Beveridge: 01988 850323 - simon.beveridge@
Shaun Morrison: 07880 600094 - shaun.morrison@ ordinariate.org.uk
ordinariate.org.uk
EDINBURGH St Patrick, 5 South Grays Close,
WATERINGBURY and the Medway Towns Edinburgh EH1 1TQ MASS: 2nd Sunday: 12.30pm
Group 37 Barming Road, Wateringbury, Kent ME18 (Divine Worship) CONTACT: Fr Len Black: 01463
5BD MASS: Sunday 11am CONTACT: Fr Nicholas 235597 - 07836 365719 - len.black@ordinariate.org.uk
Leviseur nicholas.leviseur@ordinariate.org.uk or to Fr
Ed Tomlinson edward.tomlinson@ordinariate.org.uk BIRNIE by Elgin St Brendan, Birnie Kirk, Elgin

SCOTLAND - www.ordinariate.scot IV30 8SU Evening Prayer: every Wednesday at 7pm
MASS: monthly: check website www.ordinariate.scot
INVERNESS Oratory of St Joseph, 49 Laurel (Divine Worship), CONTACT: Fr Len Black: 01463
Avenue, Inverness IV3 5RR MASS: Sunday: 11am, mid- 235597 - 07836 365719 - len.black@ordinariate.org.uk
week Mass: Tues, Fri at 11.15am NAIRN St Mary, 7
Academy Street, Nairn IV12 4RJ MASS: 1st Mon: 10am - WALES: SOUTH EAST Ss Basil & Gwladys,
please check times at: www.ordinariate.scot (all Divine Tregwilym Road, Rogerstone, Newport NP10 9DW
Worship) CONTACT: Fr Len Black: 01463 235597 - MASS: Sunday: 11am (Divine Worship) CONTACT:
07836 365719 - len.black@ordinariate.org.uk Fr Bernard Sixtus: 07720 272137 - bernard.sixtus@
ordinariate.org.uk - www.ordinariate.org.uk/groups
WHITHORN St Martin and St Ninian,
George Street, Whithorn DG8 8PZ MASS: Wed PLEASE help us by letting us know of any changes
10.30am (Divine Worship); Stonehouse Mill, . . . email us at info@portalmag.co.uk

The Ordinary’s Diary – March 2025

The Right Reverend David Waller

Tel: 020 7440 5750 07721 639168 Email: bishop.david@ordinariate.org.uk
Website: www.ordinariate.org.uk
The Bishop’s diary was not available at the time of going to press.

St Anselm’s Roman Catholic Church HE EXISTENCE of the Ordinariate,
‘Tthus, reflects a profound and beautiful reality
ESSAGE from Fr Ed Tomlinson:
MI’m all in favour of good relations between about the nature of the Church and the inculturation
of the Gospel, as a rich English heritage.
English and American Ordinariate members.
But this one takes things further than most… For, the Church is one, and the Gospel is one,
Love is in the air! but in the process of inculturation, the Gospel is
expressed in a variety of cultures. In this way, the
This morning I met with Marcio and Virginia
to begin to plan their wedding. Church acquires a new face, as Pope Francis teaches
in Evangelii Gaudium: “The history of the Church
Marcio, a Brazilian by birth, is a member of shows that Christianity does not have simply one
the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham cultural expression […]. In the Christian customs
(UK) who worships at St Anselm’s Pembury. He of an evangelised people, the Holy Spirit adorns the
was confirmed last year. Church, showing her new aspects of revelation and
Virginia, an American, is a member of the giving her a new face.”
Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter (USA) and In this process, the Church not only gives but is
based in Houston, Texas. also enriched for, as Saint John Paul II taught, “every

The two met online and will be married at a culture offers positive values and forms which can
Nuptial Mass according to Divine Worship here enrich the way the Gospel is preached, understood
in Pembury later this year. Watch this space! and lived.”
Cardinal Fernadez