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Homily for Epiphany II

17 Sunday Jan 2016

Posted by Fr James Bradley in Homily

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Saint Peter, Caldwell Chapel, The Catholic University of America

Given for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.

As we celebrated, this past week, the fifth anniversary of the canonical erection of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, and look forward to the episcopal consecration of Monsignor Steven Lopes as the first bishop-ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter in a matter of weeks, it is fortuitous that we come this week to the annual observance of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. In Monsignor Lopes’s own words, the personal ordinariates are “ecumenism in the front row,” which is to say that the entire project of Anglicanorum cœtibus is one founded on the principles of ecumenism as understood and lived by the Catholic Church. At the threshold of this particular time set aside for prayer for the unity of Christians, it is worth revisiting the ecumenical mission of the ordinariates, not simply to comprehend more fully the structural and theoretical implications of that mission, but so that each of us—who make up the clergy and lay faithful of the ordinariates—might realize our own part in that work, and be better equipped to articulate that purpose to those who, in the words of Blessed John Henry Newman, are “shivering at the gates.”

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A Bishop for the Ordinariate

24 Tuesday Nov 2015

Posted by Fr James Bradley in Canon Law, Ordinariate

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Crozier with the Annunciation, 13th century, Limoges

Some canonical considerations on the appointment of a bishop-ordinary for the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter.

In succession to The Reverend Monsignor Jeffrey Steenson, P.A., today the Holy Father appointed The Reverend Monsignor Steven Lopes as the second ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter, and its first bishop. Monsignor Steenson was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI in January 2012, and led the personal ordinariate for the United States and Canada from its genesis, to a point where it boasts around forty communities, seventy clergy, a territorial deanery in Canada, an administrative and canonical infrastructure, and the facilities required (in terms of church buildings and a chancery) to establish itself permanently within the life of the Catholic Church in the United States. As he relinquishes this responsibility, the clergy and faithful of all three personal ordinariates can be grateful for his relentless work and commitment to this project, and for the example that he leaves for the development, growth, and success of the personal ordinariates as distinctive communities of Catholic life and faith, rooted in the liturgical, pastoral, and spiritual traditions of Anglicanism.

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