THE
P RTAL
October 2015
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Ordinariate Festival 2015
The Portal was at the Ordinariate Festival as Will Burton reports
Remembering last
year’s Festival, I was looking forward to the weekend of 18th - 20th
September 2015. One of the venues was different, but the shape of the weekend was substantially the
same. A talk and reception on Friday, a full day on Saturday and Mass at Warwick Street on Sunday.
So it was that I made my way to the Church of the
Most Precious Blood, O’Meara Street, London Bridge
on a Friday evening. About sixty people were there to
listen to Fr Gerard Sheehan of Opus Dei (below). Fr
Gerard is a small, round faced man with a twinkle in
his eye. He won over his audience at once.
His talk was substantial and about the place of
organisations like the Ordinariate in the life of the
Catholic Church. He traced i