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The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland

Advent 2024

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ELCOME TO the first on within the Ordinariate around ▸
W Wissue of Ord Scot News, the Scotland with regular updates from ? Notre Dame Bells
new quarterly newsletter from the Ordinariate members from the ? Nicea in 2025?
Ordinariate in Scotland which will Whithorn group, the Edinburgh group,
be published on-line in December/ the Birnie group and the Inverness
Advent, March/Lent, June/Trinity, group. Please let Fr Len know if you
September/Michaelmas. would like to help!
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Because we have a geographical It will also include articles on the ? 2025 Conference
spread of activities around Scotland Faith and specially commissioned
the intention is that this will articles and news from the rest of the
supplement the main news from the Ordinariate in the UK. If you have
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Why the pink candle? ? News Round-up

Fr Simon Beveridge explains why...

HE SEASON of Advent gets choosing, but ? Saint J H Newman
T Tincluded as a component of his. It’s worth
the secular Christmas season of considering
celebrations and Advent calendars that Advent
provide a daily marker for us to open a is a time
picture window as a countdown to the of growing ? 9 Lessons & Carols
big day. Some of these calendars are expectation
quite expensive, arty and elaborate, for the beginning of an event, the
with or without chocolates, and some Event. So how are we to wait without
even contain early presents. slipping into celebrating as though it is ? Ordinariate Mass?
already Christmas?
The point of the countdown is to ? Forgotten by history
express a building sense excitement One of the things we might consider
in anticipation of the Great Day. is that behind both Advent and
Unfortunately, this sense gets lost as Christmas lies the deep longing which
we just can’t wait. As a society, we do God has for his people to return to ? Said three times
not wait very well. So, it is a good job him. He seeks us out and calls us by ? Beauty of holiness
that babies come when they are ready name – “Adam. Where are you?”, he ? Grandtully
and do so in the fullness of time and asks. It’s his initiative, and we love
not at our convenience. God created it because he loved us first.
that way.
There is in all of us a “homing ? Holy Year 2025
To wait is to conform ourselves instinct” for heaven. It is where we are
to his will and sovereignty so our made for, so that we can be in God.
willingness to wait is harnessed to Of course, we are in him and of him
humility. This is a prerequisite for already in so much that we live and ? Christmas homily
worshipping him when the time move within his creation on Earth.
comes for us to kneel at his crib. He has planted in each of us a sense of
This happens at a time not of our wanting to belong. This exists among