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THE P RTAL February 2025 Page 12

News from the Ordinariate

Chrism Mass Fortnightly Spiritual Conferences

HRISM MASS is at will be at 11.30am or HE SERIES of Spiritual Conferences held on
C11am on Thursday 10th April 2025 at Our Lady TZoom, will continue in February, on the second
and St Gregory, Warwick Street, London W1B 5LZ. and fourth Wednesdays, at 8.00pm. This month they

Keith Brown, the Director of Music, invites singers will be led by our two seminarians for the priesthood
from Ordinariate groups to sing in the choir for the at Allen Hall. They will last 20-25 minutes, and we
Chrism Mass. Some repertoire is yet to be decided shall pray the Office of Compline afterwards. The
but the Bishop has chosen Mozart’s Trinitatis Mass. Zoom links are as follows:
14th February – Eric Lobsinger
It would be a case of singers who want to participate
just to sing whatever they feel comfortable with, if they Seminarian & Oxford Group
can’t do everything. Zoom link: www. bit.ly/sp-conf-02-14
Meeting ID: 879 4450 7099 / Passcode: 769075)
The email for signing up (I need to know voice part 26th February – John Underhill
and Ordinariate Group name) is warwickstreetmusic@ Seminarian & Torbay Mission
gmail.com. Zoom link: www.bit.ly/sp-conf-02-26
Meeting ID: 861 5941 0973 / Passcode: 704405
Candlemas (A Song)
All Members, Associates, and Friends of the
By St John Henry Newman Ordinariate are welcome to join us, from around the
THE Angel-lights of Christmas morn, which British Isles, as are those interested in joining the
shot across the sky, Ordinariate.
Away they pass at Candlemas, they sparkle and Our hope is Trustworthy
they die.
Comfort of earth is brief at best, although it be CCORDING TO the Christian faith,
divine; A“redemption” – salvation – is not simply a given.
Like funeral lights for Christmas gone, old Redemption is offered to us in the sense that we
Simeon’s tapers shine. have been given hope, trustworthy hope, by virtue of
And then for eight long weeks and more, we which we can face our present; the present, even if it
wait in twilight grey, is arduous, can be lived and accepted if it leads toward
Till the high candle sheds a beam, on Holy a goal, if we can be sure of this goal, and if this goal is
Saturday. great enough to justify the effort of the journey.
We wait along the penance-tide of solemn fast Pope Benedict – Encyclical Letter Spe salvi
and prayer; November 30th, 2007, no 1
While song is hush’d, and lights grow dim, in The Ordinariate
the sin-laden air. O ACCOMMODATE requests from
And while the sword in Mary’s soul is driven Tgroups of Anglicans who wished to enter into
home, we hide full communion with the Catholic Church, the
In our own hearts and count the wounds of Holy See established the Ordinariate as similar to a
passion and of pride. diocese, which the Second Vatican Council defines as
And still, though Candlemas be spent and “a particular church in which the one, holy, catholic,
Alleluias o’er, and apostolic Church of Christ is truly present and
Mary is music in our need and Jesus light in operative.”
store.
(The Oratory. 1849) His Eminence, Cardinal Víctor Fernández. 22 June 2024

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