The Portal October 2015 | Page 7

THE P RTAL October 2015 Page 7 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