The Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter Keeps Busy During Holy Week and Easter

4/9/2012

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the support that Bishop Coyne and the Archdiocese have given to this community. This has been a wonderful example of Christian unity and what I believe Pope Benedict intended when he created the Ordinariate.\"

These two communities are among more than 1,400 people in 20 communities across the United States who have asked to join the Ordinariate and the third community in the United States to be received since January. The others are in Baltimore, MD and Philadelphia, PA. Nearly 40 former Anglican priests currently are studying to be ordained Catholic priests.

The first ordination now scheduled in the Ordinariate

In another exciting development, on Wednesday April 11, 2012, Jon David Chalmers will be the first of the Ordinariate candidates ordained to the diaconate. Jon has been called to Holy Orders by the Ordinary, Monsignor Jeffrey Steenson, and will be ordained by the Most Reverend Robert E. Guglielmone, Bishop of Charleston, at St. Mary\'s Catholic Church in Greenville, South Carolina.

An ordinariate is similar to a regular Catholic diocese, but national in scope. Pope Benedict XVI established it on January 1 in response to repeated requests by Anglicans seeking to become Catholic, and appointed Msgr. Jeffrey N. Steenson, a former Episcopal bishop based in Houston, TX, as the leader. Ordinariate parishes will be fully Catholic while retaining elements of their Anglican heritage and traditions, including liturgical traditions.

For more information on the Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter, one of only two ordinariates in the world, visit www.usordinariate.org. St. Michael's Community in Philadelphia is online at http://anglicanphiladelphia.org and St. Joseph of Arimathea can be found at www.stjoearimatheasociety.org.

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Randy Sly is the Associate Editor of Catholic Online and the CEO/Associate Publisher for the Northern Virginia Local Edition of Catholic Online (http://virginia.catholic.org). He is a former Archbishop of the Charismatic Episcopal Church who laid aside that ministry to enter into the full communion of the Catholic Church.

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Pope Benedict XVI's Prayer Intentions for January 2013
General Intention: The Faith of Christians. That in this Year of Faith Christians may deepen their knowledge of the mystery of Christ and witness joyfully to the gift of faith in him.
Missionary Intention: Middle Eastern Christians. That the Christian communities of the Middle East, often discriminated against, may receive from the Holy Spirit the strength of fidelity and perseverance.

Keywords: Anglican Ordinariate, Chair of St. Peter, Steenson, Installation, Institution

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Richard
1 year ago
@Michael: 28 “The older brother became angry and refused to go in. So his father went out and pleaded with him. 29 But he answered his father, ‘Look! All these years I’ve been slaving for you and never disobeyed your orders. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends. 30 But when this son of yours who has squandered your property with prostitutes comes home, you kill the fattened calf for him!’

31 “‘My son,’ the father said, ‘you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. 32 But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’”
Diane
1 year ago
I just love these new Anglican Catholics and any stories about this new Ordinariate. Such courage these people possess who have come over to full union with the Church. I welcome them and continue to pray for them. God bless them and Pope Benedict too.
michael
1 year ago
If possible, I would love to see an article on the process involved with these groups and their "ministers" coming into the Church. Has there been, for example, serious catechesis over a lengthy period? Are those "hot button" issues dealt with, for example, contraception and extra ecclesiam nulla salus? As a final comment, it is wonderful to see people leaving the horrors of revolutionary Protestantism and entering the true Church. I am glad that Catholic.org has covered this so extensively and with much joy. At the same time, however, I have not seen such excitement shown in regards to the SSPX and the attempts made to regularize their situation. SSPX bishops, priests, religious, and lay folk are full members of the true Church, albeit in an estranged relationship, but they are being forced to accept the full message of Vatican II, though most people still struggle to understand its new orientations and to embrace some of its more ambiguous statements. The SSPX is told that it must accept ecumenism as a reality...since when did ecumenism become a dogma? Have these Anglicans been given such hurdles to climb? Why is it that Catholics, in this case the SSPX, must climb higher hurdles to remain in Holy Church than those coming in? And are those coming in told they must accept all the teachings of the Church not just those at Vatican II?
abey
1 year ago
Just as the west from the time of Constantine & beyond turned whole heartedly from their Paganism to the Christian faith & have risen ever since, is proof of the Christian Faith & as Faith does not change it would be wise of them Anglicans who have fallen away from the beliefs, which is nothing but leading to their Pre Christian Pagan ways is for a sure to the fall, for the faithful to roll back to the very same faith lost to them but found in the Catholic fold, in the same Unchanged Apostolic Faith, irrespective what the Queen of England has to say, where matters of faith are to The Church & matters of Politics are to the crown & in this case it is a matter of Faith. Remembering that it is faith to Christ that leads, the leader & the binder, learned through History, be the guide through the Holy Week.
Wade Marsh
1 year ago
This is beautiful to see God building up His Church as One united in Love by His Holy Spirit in
the Holy Mass celebrated around the world in His humble Shepard on earth Pope Benedict XVI.
Martins
1 year ago
Great

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