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Newcomers 18 Aug 2013 | 11:35 pm
Just a brief unillustrated blog today to announce the Reception & Confirmation of two more members of our Ordinariate Mission. Andrew Hawthorne was an Anglican clergyman - most recently serving as an ...
Happy Day 11 Aug 2013 | 02:46 am
Fifty years ago on this very day (which was also a Saturday) Jane and I were joined in Holy Matrimony by our then Vicar at St Mark's North End, Canon Peter May. St Mark's went soon after we left Ports...
Real Wessex 3 Aug 2013 | 03:13 am
Each year we try to get to the New Forest Show. It is a great three-day event where the great and good rub shoulders with people like us. The first day threatened rain, so we went on Wednesday, the mi...
Deaconings 29 Jul 2013 | 04:07 pm
Bishop Richard Moth, Bishop to the Forces, ordained four men as Deacons on Saturday - the first Ordinariate Ordination in the Ordinariate Church in Soho. Among them was our own Darryl Jordan, formerly...
Celebrations 24 Jul 2013 | 02:44 am
First there was our nephew and his bride of four weeks, from their new home in London. Then his parents (my wife's sister and her husband) who were married 40 years ago this year. Then us, soon to pas...
Ground (hedge) Hog Day 18 Jul 2013 | 01:55 am
The day began especially well; a new family at the 10.30 mass, with a very new baby - who became a visual aid when the Gospel spoke about the disciples as "infants". The total trust of that little gi...
Some weekend! 9 Jul 2013 | 01:57 am
It began early on Sunday morning with a call from Fr Brian, my colleague in our Ordinariate Mission. Fr John Lee of St Joseph's Christchurch had been admitted hospital overnight; Fr B must stand in fo...
Telling our story 4 Jul 2013 | 01:25 pm
Today we should begin by wishing our rebellious colonials "Happy Independence Day". Our week began in an unusual encounter; an English Texan meeting a Texan Englishman. Fr Allan Hawkins, from Dallas/F...
Thenne longen folk to go on pilgrimage... 25 Jun 2013 | 11:34 pm
Not Aprille, as in Chaucer's Tales, though the weather was showery and springlike when the Ordinariate went home to Walsingham for our summer Pilgrimage. From the Bournemouth Mission we were more than...
Soho 21 Jun 2013 | 12:54 am
Tomorrow Walsingham, today Soho Square. Priests and ordinands of the Ordinariate joined in a plenary session at St Patrick's for instruction and (perhaps more importantly) fellowship. Good to catch up...
