THE
P RTAL
December 2016
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Deacons in Disney!
The Revd Andrew Lomas, Permanent Deacon of Holy Cross & St
Francis, Walmley, Sutton Coldfield, Archdiocese of Birmingham
I
must confess I was not over the moon about going for a family holiday in Disney! I wondered if
it would be like going to an English amusement park and queuing for my entire holiday.
It wasn’t helped by people saying, ‘Oh, you will come by the former Anglican congregation.
back tired’ and ‘You don’t go to Disney for a rest!’ In
fact, I was pleasantly surprised by the warmth of the
I had the privilege of deaconing Holy Mass on the
Americans, the organisation of their theme parks and Sundays of my holiday in Florida. Fr Holiday kindly
the variety of places to eat!
instructed me on how to deacon at a Mass said ad
orientem in the Ordinariate Use.
Whilst on holiday I took my ‘Letter of Good
Standing’ to the local Catholic church to find that the
Some of the prayers sounded quite familiar from
church had a very interesting history. It was formerly my own former Anglican days. Hearing Eucharistic
a member of the Traditional Anglican Communion Prayer One in old fashioned language makes us truly
under the leadership of an Anglican Bishop, Louis understand what Pope Benedict intended when he
Campese. On 16th September 2012, he was received gave us Anglicanorum coetibus as a way for Anglicans
into Full Communion along with 140 members of his to become part of the Catholic Church but not leave
congregation.
everything behind.
Bishop Louis did not petition Rome to be ordained
I would encourage all deacons to participate in the
in the Catholic Church. The Church is now led by Fr worship of the Catholic Church when they go on
William Holiday, a former Anglican Minister, and holiday; it helps us to experience the universality of
they worship in the building that was built and owned our faith.
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