THE
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December 2015
Torbay Group
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Fr Barron understands that you
have to take people seriously and
that you shouldn’t give them a
Mickey Mouse Jesus who ‘wants
you for a sunbeam’. You have to
be able to tell people much more
and you’ve got to relate it to the
world and the culture you live in.
It is about helping people see the
world with different eyes.
“Now the point is, as Christ
invades us, we realise that our
prayer is the prayer of Christ on the
cross. We have to see the world as
Christ did on the cross, therefore
we take part in the sacrifice. Saint
Paul is very clear isn’t he? You
want to rise with Christ, you have
to die with him. And anything less
is less than the Gospel.”
We posed the obvious question. “Right, you have got
the building. What next?” Fr David did not hesitate,
“Well the first thing, our main task, is to be faithful.
That’s our main task. Just to be faithful and so faithful
in our worship. I hope that we will be able to have a
regularity of worship here. Not just the Mass but the
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Offices. We need that going on in the
Church and we’ve got to invite people
in here for hospitality. Then I think
they will ask why are people doing that?
Why do people keep going in there?
After a moment of thought, Fr
David continued, “When you asked
what next, I should have said to
become an Ordinariate Parish. Then
the whole Catholic community
would understand who we are. The
people here have made extraordinary
sacrifices and we’ve got the church.
If we can’t make this work we might
as well pack up and go home. We
need to have the courage to say to the
Ordinary, please make it a parish.
Jackie talked about it, about people
looking to us, I’d want to turn it
round. This is not a building for the
Torbay group, this is a building for the
Ordinariate. This is a building that was
relatively inexpensive and I just think that we’ve got
this opportunity we have to have courage. Some things
will work and some things won’t. I think the greatest
message that could be given would be to be to make
us a parish. Then at least we could begin to be able to
think about what we could do as a parish.
Where to find us at prayer around the UK ... continued:
Jeffrey Woolnough: 01702 525323, 07956 801381 [email protected], Fr Bob White: 01268 543910
- [email protected], Deacon Richard
Cerson: 07910 388795 - [email protected] www.hockleyordinariateolw.blogspot.com
TorbaY The Church of Our Lady of
Walsingham with St Cuthbert Mayne, Old
Mill Road (junction of Ashfield Road), Chelston
TQ2 6HJ Mass: Sunday: 11am, Tues 7pm, Thurs
7pm (at Holy Angels’, Chelston) Contact: Fr David
Lashbrooke: 01626 439485 - [email protected] - www.
ourladyofwalsingham.com
(Fortrose) St Peter and St Boniface, Cathedral
Square, Fortrose IV10 8TB Mass: 1st, 3rd, 5th Sundays
of the month: 11am. Stirling St Mary’s, 15
Upper Bridge Street, Stirling FK8 1ES Mass:
2nd Sunday of the month: 4pm (Confessions:
3.30pm). The Ordinariate Use is used at
every Mass in Scotland. Contact: Fr Len
Black: 01463 235597 or 07836 365719 - fr.len@
angelforce.co.uk or Fr Stanley Bennie: 01851
703259 or 07768 660612 - gm4ptq@btinternet.
com - for full details and to check Mass times please
visit us at: www.ordinariate.scot
Wales (South East) Metropolitan
WALSINGHAM The Slipper Chapel, Shrine of Cathedral of St David, 38 Charles Street, Cardiff CF10
Our Lady of Walsingham, NR22 6AL Mass: 1st Sunday
of the month: 5pm (Ordinariate Use) Contact: Fr
Gordon Adam: 01553 777428 - gordonadam1962@
btinternet.com
2SF Mass: 4th Sunday of month: 1pm Contact:
Fr Bernard Sixtus: 02920 362599, 07720 272137 [email protected] - www.ordinariate.org.uk/
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