THE P RTAL
January 2015
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Portal Editorial
Will Burton lays out some plans The Portal in 2015
W
e are at the beginning of another year. It
is the fifth of the Ordinariate of Our Lady
of Walsingham, and therefore of The Portal. We
regularly have between six and nine thousand readers
each and every month. For this we thank all our
readers. We thank you also for the welcome you give
us as we go around the country. It is a real privilege
for us to be involved with The
Portal, and to keep you all in touch.
article by Fr David Lashbrooke, the Group Pastor
of the Torbay Group. He asks you to support this
imaginative project, and we hope and pray that he is
successful. Full details at:
www.ordinariate.org.uk/events/torbay_appeal.php
Catholic Charities
Many of you will already support
Aid to the Church in Need. It is one
of the most worthwhile Catholic
Charities. The Editorial Board of The
Portal felt we ought to investigate
some of these Catholic Charities
and give them an airing in the
Ordinariate. This is the first of a
number of articles that will appear
throughout 2015 doing just that. The
next one will be the Apostleship of
the Sea, so watch out for that.
New Ordinariate
Groups
In this issue we have the first
of three reports on some new
Ordinariate Groups. Jackie and
Ronald have been to visit the
embryonic group in Walsingham. It
is exciting to report that we have new
groups. In the early months of 2015
they will report on two other new
groups in, those in Chichester and
Cardiff.
Walsingham
Exciting though this is, it is doubly exciting to
know that Mgr John Armitage is to be the new Shrine
Director at Walsingham. We are planning to have an
interview with him in a future edition of The Portal.
Ecumenism
The news that t