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February 12, 2021The editorial board of The Portal Magazine, the monthly online publication of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, has launched a weekly podcast. The new feature coincided with The Portal Mag’s Feb. 1 special edition issue to mark the 10th Anniversary of the UK ordinariate.
You can find the first podcast of Jan. 31, Septuagesima Sunday, here. The Sexagesima podcast is here.
[Photo: Portal Mag co-founders and editors Jackie Ottaway and Ronald Crane in Rome for celebrations around the canonization of Saint John Henry Cardinal Newman.]
The podcast, edited by Ian O’Hara, offers a mix of interviews, reflections and news around the ordinariate. You can use the direct links above or your favorite podcast service to access them. Here’s The Portal’s announcement:The weekend of Septuagesima (Sunday 31st January) sees the launch of a new Portalmag podcast. This will be a weekly podcast complementing the monthly online magazine. It will online on our website (www.portalmag.co.uk) and Facebook page at 6pm every Saturday evening. Produced by the members of the Editorial Board, it will contain a weekly reflection on the Sunday readings, together with features, interviews and teaching, which we hope will be of interest to readers of the online magazine and members of the wider Catholic Church. It’s available through Apple, Google, Spreaker and Spotify or your usual podcast provider. We hope you enjoy it.
The podcasts are the latest development for the online magazine that has been publishing once a month for the 10 years of the ordinariate’s existence, featuring news, commentary, and lively opinion.
In the Feb. 1 edition of The Portal Magazine, editors Jackie Ottaway and Ronald Crane write:
Is it really ten years since we were in Westminster Cathedral for the ordination of Fathers John Broadhurst, Andrew Burnham and Keith Newton? What a day that was! When it was announced that the Ordinariate would be the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham there was an audible gasp of joyous surprise. Then we learned that Fr Keith would be the Ordinary. To celebrate the tenth anniversary, great things were planned. Covid-19 put paid to them. However, not to be outdone, mass was celebrated at Warwick Street on Saturday 16th January 2021, and live-streamed around the world. The music was as one would expect for such an occasion, and Mgr Keith Newton gave this homily. His text was Be it unto me according to thy word.
The Portal Magazine published the entire homily. Interestingly, Msgr. Newton refers to the Anglicanorum Coetibus Society under our former name, the Anglican Use Society, near the top.
“In the middle of 2011, six months after the erection of the Ordinariate which we celebrate with thanksgiving today, I was invited to a Conference organised by the Anglican Use Society in the USA to speak about the Ordinariate in the UK. This was before the Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter was erected. Another speaker was an interesting Franciscan priest, a convert from Judaism, who worked at the Rota in Rome dealing with marriage annulments. “I cannot remember the subject of his address but in it he showed an amazing knowledge of the Anglican Communion and especially of the Church of England, mentioning many of the well-known bishops of the late 20th Century, like Ian and Michael Ramsey, George Reindorp and Mervyn Stockwood, who was once my bishop. I asked him later how he knew so much about the C of E and he told me that as a young man he wanted to be an Anglican Vicar. ‘What happened?’ I asked, ‘Truth got in the way’, he said.
“It was in pursuit of truth and the fulfilment of our prayer for the unity of the Church that we left the Anglican Communion and were received into the full communion of the Catholic Church. It was not about the ordination of women to the episcopate (though no doubt that was a catalyst) but a question of authority and a realisation that, as the documents of the Second Vatican Council make clear, the one Church of Jesus Christ, in which we express our belief in the Nicene Creed every Sunday, subsists, that is, is concretely realised in the Catholic Church.
“The establishment of the first Ordinariate 10 years ago was a unique moment in the history of the Church as Cardinal Levada, the Prefect of the CDF, said at the time. ‘This is the first time that the Catholic Church has reached out in response to men and women of Western Christianity who desire full communion and accorded them not just a place among many, but a distinctive place’. That distinctive place is a prophetic witness to the rest of the Church in its search for unity as Christ wills. We may be a small part of the Church but our significance in the search for unity is I believe huge.”You can read the rest of the homily in full at The Portal Magazine.
The 10th Anniversary for the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter soon approaches. What would you like to see the Anglicanorum Coetibus Society do to mark this milestone?
Deborah Gyapong is a board member and former president of the Anglicanorum Coetibus Society.
