The Portal June 2015 | Page 12

THE P RTAL June 2015 Page 12 The Salisbury Ordinariate Jackie Ottaway and Ronald Crane visit the Group Jackie’s eldest son married Ronald’s daughter. They have produced two wonderful children. Joseph is eleven and Emily, eight. It is bad form to take your children to work with you, and even worse to take your grandchildren! However, there are occasions when this is unavoidable. The Sunday we visited the Salisbury Ordinariate Group was one such occasion. We need not have worried. The Ordinariate congregation in Salisbury includes at least one family with similarly aged children, and our grandchildren were warmly welcomed – as indeed were we. Salisbury is the second-largest settlement in the county of Wiltshire, after Chippenham. It has a population of about 40,000, so is one of the smaller cities in England. with the Ordinariate. Gisele Siemens Situated on the edge of Salisbury Plain, it is fortunate to have Stonehenge nearby. Thi 2GG&7G2F