Page 12 - The Portal magazine - June 2024

THE P RTAL June 2024 Page 12

News from the Ordinariate

Spiritual Conferences
and has gained a world-wide reputation for her
HE SERIES of Spiritual Conferences held on traditional, individually crafted designs. Find out
TZoom, will continue this month, on the second more at Ecclesiastical Embroidery by Ruth Black: www.
and fourth Wednesdays, at 8.00pm. They will last 20- angelforce.co.uk
25 minutes, and we shall pray the Office of Compline Ordination to the Priesthood
afterwards. The Zoom links are as follows:
12th June – Fr Ed Tomlinson, Pastor of the Pembury ATURDAY 20TH July 12 noon
Mission - Zoom link: www.bit.ly/ Sat Our Lady of the Assumption,
sp-conf-1206 Meeting ID: 879 3390 Warwick Street is an important day as it
5507 / Passcode: 056604 will be Bishop David’s first ordination,
26th June – Fr Simon Ellis, Pastor of when he will be ordaining four men to the
the Birmingham Mission - Zoom link: priesthood to serve within the Ordinariate
www.bit.ly/sp-conf-2608 Meeting of Our Lady of Walsingham. They are:
ID: 884 7917 4002 / Passcode: 364263 Deacon Alex Garner,
Deacon Timothy Ezat,
All Members, Associates, and Deacon Martyn Rogers and
Friends of the Ordinariate are Richard Pain, former Bishop of Newport,
welcome to join us, from around the who will be ordained to the diaconate
British Isles, as are those interested in earlier in July. Please remember them in
joining the Ordinariate. your prayers.
Irish commission

UTH BLACK, wife of Fr PRAY FOR OUR
RLen Black, Ordinariate priest
in Inverness, was commissioned Bishop Alan McGuck ian NEW ORDINARY
Bishop Alan McGuckian
to make a Sacred Heart chasuble, of D o wn and C onnor:
of Down and Connor:
stole and mitre for Bishop Alan
McGuckian, for his installation as the
new Catholic Bishop of Down and
Connor.

Ruth was also invited to be present
at the installation ceremony in St
Peter’s Cathedral in west Belfast on
Sunday 14th April as an honoured
guest. Later she said, “This is not the
first mitre I have made for a bishop,
but it was the first occasion at which
I was present when it was first worn,
and it was a great joy to be there.”
Ruth Black
Ruth Black
Ruth has been making vestments for priests (and Bishop-elect David
bishops) around the world for more than 40 years

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