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translation of the Bible into English, took over the
direction of a magazine, and founded an Oratory
in Oxford dedicated to St Philip Neri, in whose
Congregation he had been ordained a priest.
In 1879, Pope Leo XIII made Newman a
Cardinal. Newman chose as
his cardinal’s motto the words
‘Cor ad cor loquitur’ meaning,
,
‘heart speaks unto heart’. John
Henry Newman died at the
Birmingham Oratory on 11
August 1890 at the age of 89.
On 4 November 2009
the Apostolic Constitution
Anglicanorum coetibus
(meaning ‘Groups of
Anglicans) was issued by Pope
Benedict XVI. It began the
process that enabled Anglicans
and Episcopalians to enter
into full communion with
the Catholic Church, while
preserving those elements of
the Anglican tradition.
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What the Ordinariate Mass is NOT!
T IS often wrongly assumed that
I Ithe Catholic Church and its
worship is the same wherever in
the world a person encounters
it; whilst this is certainly true
for the Faith of the Church
- the very kernel of belief -
however liturgical life is rich and
varied. This diversity of liturgy can come
as surprise to the average Catholic, as it does to
those outside the Faith.
Many still struggle to correctly understand the
liturgical life of the Ordinariate, often describing
it as the ‘the old rite’ in English. This is to
misunderstand what the Ordinariate Use of the
Roman Rite is. It needs no comparison to any
other Rite or Use, as it is complete within itself.
It is certainly not some lesser form of the Old
Rite Latin Mass.
Bishop Steven Lopes says the Ordinariate Rite
is a distinct form of the Roman Rite - ‘Although
Divine Worship preserves some ritual elements
and traditional gestures associated with older
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John Henry Newman was declared Blessed by
Pope Benedict XVI on 19 September 2010 during
his visit to Britain. While visiting Lambeth
Palace in London, Pope Benedict said: ‘In the
figure of John Henry Newman we celebrate a
churchman whose ecclesial vision was nurtured
by his Anglican background
and matured during his many
years of ordained ministry in
the Church of England.’
On 15 January 2011 the
first Personal Ordinariate was
established and Monsignor
Keith Newton was named as
the Ordinary. The Decree
of Erection specified that the
Ordinariate would be known
as the Personal Ordinariate of
Our Lady of Walsingham and
would be placed under the
patronage of Blessed (later
Saint) John Henry Newman.
Pope Francis canonised Saint
John Henry Newman on 13th
October 2019.
forms of the Mass, its theological
and rubrical context is the Ordinary
Form of the Roman Rite’ and
that Divine Worship must be
‘approached and considered in
its own integrity.’ Archbishop
Di Noia said, ‘Divine Worship is
not a museum piece, but rather the Holy
See’s prudent grafting of proven Anglican shoots
on the rooted, living trunk of the Roman Rite, to
promote new and healthier growth.’
We must understand and love our liturgical
texts, we must study them and know them and
pray them. They stand on their own dignity
and reflect our ecclesial community. We have
been formed by these texts, and pray God will
continue to form the generations to come. How
grateful we should be to Pope Benedict XVI
whose, ‘principle of diversity in unity’ is at the
heart of Anglicanorum Coetibus.
Bryan Miller
Further Reading: The Anglican Patrimony in
Catholic Communion, Edited Tracey Rowland