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Msgr. Keith Newton, the ordinary of Our Lady of Walsingham Ordinariate, gives his homily for the UK Ordinariate's 2022 Walsingham pilgrimage on August 27.

EXCERPT: The creation of a new Anglican diocese in Australia offers Catholics a glimpse of a future we do not want

EXCERPT: Just as the Ordinariates allow Anglicans to share the same Church as Sts. Thomas More, John Fisher, and John Newman, they also can provide a means of rebuilding or recreating a Catholicism as natively English-speaking, as culturally tied to its countries while retaining its universality, as anything in Catholic Europe or Latin America.

Vocations director Fr. Rick Kramer of the Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter gives a catechesis on the Eucharist and its relationship to the sacrament of reconciliation in this August 2022 message for the Eucharistic Revival.

EXCERPT: "I’m not just a Western Christian; my background is more specific than that. Methodism is an offshoot of Anglicanism, being founded in England by the Anglican priest John Wesley in the 18th century. Further, my ancestry is deeply English, and because of that, I am quite the Anglophile American. So what about a Catholic liturgy that is not only Western, but English? Wouldn’t that be something? Well, such a liturgy exists: the Ordinariate Mass."

The Ordinariate pilgrimage to Walsingham is August 27 in order to give the opportunity for people to attend the March for Life which will take place the following Saturday.

EXCERPT: "I think [the Ordinariate] has huge potential. ... here is a group of people who are moved by a level of conviction that is really quite unusual and a level of competence, too. They marry competence and conviction, and as it happens, they bring with them Shakespeare in the sense that one of the best things about Anglicanism was the formation of its liturgy in the 16th century when English was at its most beautiful, and if you believe in beauty, and the Catholic church does, then what the Ordinariate does is it brings in a literary and a poetic beauty to match the best of architectural Gothic beauty, and that’s no small thing."

EXCERPT: "In short, as Francis puts the kibosh on liturgical variability in the Latin Catholic Church, could the Anglican Use be next on the chopping block?"

On August 10, the feast of St. Lawrence, deacon and martyr, Bishop Steven J. Lopes ordained Lee D. Ashton, KM and Joseph J. DeCaria to the Sacred Order of Deacon.

EXCERPT: "That day I introduced myself to Fr. Ernie Davis, in 2009 (the date escapes me, though I think it was in August), began a thirteen-year journey. That journey ended this past June 26, when Our Lady of Hope Ordinariate Community celebrated its final liturgy, this time at Guardian Angels parish in Kansas City."