THE P RTAL
May 2014
UK Pages - page 18
UK Group News
Wales (South East) Group
Following a last meeting last month Deacon Bernard
Sixtus, the Group Pastor, has announced two exciting
developments for the Wales (South East) Group.
The first is that Archbishop George Stack has now
determined that the new home of our Ordinariate group
in the Archdiocese of Cardiff is to be at the Metropolitan
Cathedral of St David in Charles Street, Cardiff. This is
great news: we are to pray and live at the very heart of
the Diocese, in its ‘mother church’!
Arrangements are now being made with Canon Peter
Collins (the Cathedral Dean) to develop the semienclosed area on the right of the Cathedral Sanctuary
into a chapel for our use. The Cathedral will provide a
reredos and altar for that purpose, which is to be adorned
with statues of Our Lady of Walsingham, St. David and
one other saint associated with the Ordinariate. Pews
will then be placed in the new chapel, which will thus
become a great place to offer Ordinariate Mass in future.
Work on this project has now begun.
Imminent further development of the ‘Cornerstone at
St. David’s’ centre across the road from the Cathedral
will mean that apart from a place of worship at the heart
of the Diocese, our group will also continue to have
access to excellent facilities for social events and study
meetings, as well as being given space on the Cathedral
notice-board to publicise Ordinariate events.
Ordinariate Mass will be celebrated for the first time in the new chapel in the Cathedral on Thursday, 15th
May 2014, at 6.30pm by Fr Peter Clarke (Bristol Ordinariate Group), followed by a meeting over tea and coffee.
ALL WELCOME!
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