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John Wesley made use of three key lay ministries to catch souls for Jesus Christ, and the Ordinariates can take advantage of this model by making use of the Catholic Church’s lay ministries of reader, acolyte, and catechist.

The Catholic Truth Society and the Our Lady of Walsingham and Our Lady of the Southern Cross Ordinariates have created one of the finest Catholic breviaries published in many years with Divine Worship: Daily Office (Commonwealth edition).

This week we hear about the life of our Saint of the Month St Thomas Aquinas, Ronald Crane reflects from the book of Nehimiah and our Ordinary sends a message to the lay faithful, and we mark the week of prayer for Christian Unity by listening to "O thou who at thy Eucharist didst pray."

Both Divine Worship liturgical books had been out of stock for some years, but will be released by Catholic Truth Society in updated form in the first part of 2022.

Catholic pro-life marchers attending this year’s “Ordinariate Mass before the March” will be at St. Luke’s Catholic Church new permanent location in Oxon Hill, MD and then metro together on the Green Line to the March for Life rally.

This week we learn a little about the 22 Catholic missionaries murdered in 2021. Ronald Crane reflects on the Gospel at Mass, we have an obituary to Fr Peter Clarke and listen to the Choir of St John's college Cambridge sing "Behold the Great Creator Makes."

The Ordinariate can find in the Methodist tradition’s Revivals and Conferences an opportunity to gather with fellow Christians to share ideas and enthusiasm for spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

EXCERPT: Really, this liturgy is stunningly beautiful, and if you haven’t seen it before you should find a way to attend one. If there’s one thing that we might agree the Anglicans have done well, it’s preservation of the liturgy (at least, the “high church” or “Anglo-Catholics” have). I recall the first time I discovered the Anglican Use through a video on YouTube that an Ordinariate parish used for promotional purposes on their website. The priest described their liturgy as “where the sacred meets Elizabethan English.” Much of what is sacred about the Tridentine Mass is packed into it, but it’s celebrated in English.

EXCEPRT: There are parishes out there that are seeing extraordinary growth by celebrating the majesty and beauty of the Mass in a reverent, joyful way. Some do so using the Ordinary Form (aka the Novus Ordo), while others celebrate using different forms of approved liturgical rites. One such parish is Our Lady of the Atonement (OLA) in San Antonio, Texas. OLA was the first “Anglican Use” parish erected under the 1980 Pastoral Provision proclaimed by Pope John Paul II allowing former (mostly) Episcopalians to form parishes within existing U.S. dioceses.

Dominican Father Aidan Nichols' book, published a year before Anglicanorum Coetibus in 2008, has enormous relevance for Anglicans and Catholics, especially in the Ordinariate, concerned about the reconversion of England to Jesus Christ.    

The Portal magazine is the monthly review of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. This is the Jan. 2022 edition.