THE
P RTAL
December 2017
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Ordinariate Blogs
Will Burton has been looking at some Ordinariate Blogs
A t Southwest Ordinariate
- swordinariate.blogspot.co.uk - Fr Ian Hellyer commented
“One of the ongoing issues for us as the Ordinariate in Britain seems to be an embarrassment on the
part of many Catholics who have been happy to go along with what I call protestant ecumenism.
“Understandably enough, this ecumenism is based celebrating the Reformation.
on protestant ecclesiology+. Because protestant
This, an article by a Catholic Priest’s wife, and the
ecclesiology does not require a visibly united earthly
institution then it tends to aim essentially for a kind of excepted remarks on liturgy and Anglican patrimony
federation of ‘churches’ which are all for cooperation make it an interesting read.
when possible and are nice to each other.
“Each ‘church’ deciding their own doctrine but
always remembering to say nice things to the others.
This ecumenical movement is not getting us closer to
the unity that is the will of Christ - that is, a unity that
is visible to the world.
Only with ecumenism based on Catholic
ecclesiology can we really fulfill the will of Christ
to become One Church (with One Faith and One
Baptism). This has to be a unity the world can see
and respect. The Ordinariate is an expression of this
Catholic ecumenism fully in accord with the teaching
of Vatican II documents Lumen Gentium and Unitatis
Redintegratio.
“There is One Christ (with a divine nature and a
human nature) who has One Body the Church (which
is both a spiritual reality and a earthly institutional
reality*). From a Catholic point of view there cannot
be anything other than One Church. This seems to
embarrass some Catholics.
The Ordinariate by its Apostolic Constitution,
and declared by it to be inspired by the Holy Spirit,
expresses this Catholic ecclesiology. It expresses also
the understanding of the goal of true ecumenism - to
be one under the See of Peter without extinguishing
our identity or patrimony.
“The Ordinariate can sometimes seem to be
inconvenient to many.”
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Quoting your name
At the Anglicanorum Coetibus Society Blog -
anglicanorumcoetibussociety.wordpress.com - there
was on 1st November, a wonderful endorsement of
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Also they have some thoughtful words about
ecumenism and why the authors are a trifle shy of Many blessings!
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