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EXCERPT: "However we keep Advent in our own tradition, the beauty of the Catholic religion is that it encompasses a wide range of customs and practices that all evoke the one faith we profess. These 'small t' traditions are all part of the one 'capital T' Tradition that our Catholic faith proclaims."

Diana Morphew is the first lay person in the U.K. Ordinariate invested as a Dame of the Equestrian Order or the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, which is tasked by the Holy See with sustaining and aiding the charitable, cultural and social works and institutions of the Catholic Church in the Holy Land, and encouraging the spread of the faith there. 

The Wesleys viewed congregational singing as vital to Methodist worship, and Ordinariate communities can take some cues from this part of the patrimony.

The Catholic Truth Society has prepared a second printing of 1,000 copies for Divine Worship: Daily Office (Commonwealth edition).

A special podcast featuring the addresses by the Papal Nuncio and Monsignor John Armitage at the Festival marking the 10th anniversary of the erection of the Personal Ordinariate of OLW at Westminster Cathedral Hall on Saturday 20th November.

Nigel McBain, seminarian for the Australia-based Ordinariate, teaches two ways of praying the Commonwealth edition of Divine Worship: Daily Office produced by Catholic Truth Society.

This week’s edition of the Portal Podcast for Christ the King discusses Aid to the Church in Need (UK), the forthcoming issue of The Portal, and Fr James Bradley discusses Advent in the Ordinariate.

John Wesley and the Early Methodists engaged in charitable outreach through acts of compassion and justice. Ordinariate Catholics have a tremendous opportunity to carry on this part of our spiritual patrimony.

Dr. Michael Nazir Ali, a Catholic priest of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, takes moral and biblical aim at arguments made recently by former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey and others to weaken Judeo-Christian teaching against assisted suicide. (Published at: MichaelNazirAli.com)

EXCERPT: "I also hope that Bishop Lopes, though not originally from an Anglican background, has by now absorbed enough of what he himself refers to as the Anglican patrimony’s 'intangibles' to bring an important Anglican perspective to his role in the USCCB."

The U.S. Conference of Catholic bishops voted to put the Ordinariate bishop in charge of the committee overseeing liturgy matters in the United States.

EXCERPT: "In some ways, I’m very happy that the King James Only movement is making a comeback [among Evangelicals]. While I disagree with the reasons for it entirely, I think there is something missing from modern English translations, and it has nothing to do with the translation itself. Rather, it has to do with problems associated with modern English."

EXCERPT: "This post doesn’t go into the history of what was included, or why; that can come later or can be found elsewhere. Rather, this post is a potted précis of how to pray the Offices, either in a short form or in the Prayer Book tradition."

"I Vow to Thee my Country" is a British poem by Sir Cecil Spring Rice set to Thaxted, a tune derived from Gustav Holst's "Jupiter." As a hymn, it recounts one's love and sacrifice for one's country, but above all to the kingdom of heaven, and has been sung often on Remembrance Day following World War I. This version is taken from the 2011 Festival of Remembrance in the Royal Albert Hall.

We're sharing the inaugural edition of the new ACS Newsletter that goes out monthly to our members. Take a look, and join the ACS today to receive monthly this report on the best of the ACS, the Ordinariates, and the Anglican patrimony happening around the world.

Sherry Weddell’s book can help Catholics in the Ordinariate realize that everything they do in their communities works together toward a common purpose: to make disciples of Jesus Christ.

Bishop Steven J. Lopes of the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter preaches at Mass celebrated by Monsignor Keith Newton, Ordinary of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham at Our Lady of the Assumption and St. Gregory's on Warwick Street in London for Trinity XXIII Sunday.

Ordinariate communities can take advantage of Wesley’s insights to form disciples through small groups, which in turn can evangelize people not yet ready to set foot in church.

Benedict XVI established the Ordinariates for the Anglican tradition on November 4, 2009 – generations to come, however, will see the full fruition of this embryonic stage of realized ecumenical unity.  

The ACS has prepared a transcript of Fr. Michael Nazir-Ali’s remarks delivered after his ordination to the Catholic priesthood, briefly explaining why the former Anglican bishop joined the Catholic Church and why he did it through the Ordinariate.