THE P R TAL · THE P RTAL May 2020 Page 3 Female deacons Will Burton asks why the Holy Father has appointed a second commission On THE 8th April, the Vatican Press Office issued a

R TALTHE PThe PorTal is the monthly review of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham

May 2020

Geoffrey Kirk1945-2020

is the monthly review of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham

RTALTHE PMay 2020 Volume 10 Issue 113

ContentsPage 3 Portal Comment ndash Will Burton reflects

Page 4 Innocent man unjustly imprisoned ndash Joanna Bogle

Page 5 Ideas good bad and indifferent ndash Snapdragon

Page 6 Catechism The Mass ndash Fr Matthew Pittam

Page 7 Father Geoffrey Kirk 1945-2020 RIP ndash Obituary by Mgr John Broadhurst

Page 9 Living alone with isolation ndash Basil Youdell

Page 10 When this is all over ndash Revd Dr Stephen Morgan

Page 11 Our window on the CofE ndash The Revd Paul Benfield

Page 12 What is a Vicar General ndash Fr David Waller

Page 13 Farewell to a friend ndash The Editors

Page 14 Finding us at prayer ndash in England Scotland and Wales

Page 17 Our Calling amp Our Mission with ZOOM ndash The Editors

Page 18 School life under lockdown ndash John Crane

Page 19 Letter to the Editor

Page 20 Aid to the Church in Needx ndash John Newton and Maria Lozano

Page 22 Vocations ndash Fr Michael Halsall

Page 23 Book Review ndash Mgr Andrew Burnham

Page 24 Book Review ndash Fr David Butler

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Female deaconsWill Burton asks why the Holy Father has appointed a second commission

On THE 8th April the Vatican Press Office issued a statement telling us that Pope Francis has appointed a second commission to investigate the whole question of female deacons in the Church As far as I can

tell no one who served on the previous commission is included in the new one The whole list is as follows

Istitution of a new Study Commission on the female diaconate 08042020

The Holy Father during a recent audience granted to His Eminence Cardinal Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has decided to institute a new Study Commission on the female diaconatehellip

There are at least two interesting things about this news First the subject itself will interest all members of the Ordinariates Secondly the sharp-eyed will have noticed the name Caroline Farey Now Professor Farey was one of the lovely people who instructed our clergy when we all joined the Catholic Church

Furthermore she has been interviewed for this magazine about her work when she was on the staff at Maryvale She is a great friend of the Ordinariates

What do we know about the members of this new commission According to Life Site News

Cardinal Giuseppe Petrocchi 71 is Italian According to the Vatican he speaks English French German and Spanish and has a background in philosophy psychology and pastoral work

Fr Denis Dupont-Fauville 53 is French He has a doctorate in theology and his supervisor was Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer SJ now the Prefect of the CDF Since 2013 he has been at the Faculteacute Notre-Dame at the Collegravege de Bernardins in Paris

Dr Catherine Brown Tkacz has a doctorate in medieval studies from the University of Notre Dame in South Bend Indiana Currently she is at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lemburg In 2013 a paper by Dr Tkacz on deaconesses appeared in Revue drsquohistoire eccleacutesiastique ldquoDeaconesses and the Spiritual Equality of Womenrdquo concludes that the ldquoordination

rites for deacons and deaconesses show them to be ontologically differentrdquo

Deacon Dominic Cerrato earned a PhD in Theology from the Graduate Theological Foundation The first married deacon to be ordained in Steubenville (1995) Deacon Cerrato has been the Executive Director of Diaconal Ministries since 2015

Fr Santiago del Cura Elena is Spanish Del Cura has served as Dean of the Faculty of Theology of Northern Spain in Burgos (1994-2000 2006-2009) and President of the same institution in Burgos and Vitoria (2009-2012)

Dr Caroline Farey a lay associate of the Diocese of Shrewsbury is an authority on catechesis She taught at Englandrsquos Maryvale Institute from late 1996 to late 2013 and at St Maryrsquos College Oscott from 2001 to 2011 During this period she completed a doctorate at Romersquos Lateran University In 2012 she served as one of three lay women experts for the Synod on the New Evangelisation Subsequently she was asked to work for the Pontifical Academy for the New Evangelisation and Catechesis Working under Archbishop Fisichella she joined others in reviewing the General Directory for Catechesis for its 20th anniversary (2017)

Dr Barbara Hallensleben is 63 The subject of her post-doctoral thesis was ldquoThe origins of Theology of the Mission in St Ignatius of Loyola and Mary Wardrdquo Since 1994 she has taught at the University of Fribourg She is also a consultor to the Vaticanrsquos Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity She has served as a member of the International Theological Commission

Fr Manfred Hauke 63 is from Hannover Germany He has been a professor at the Theological Faculty of Lugano Switzerland since 1993 Fr Hauke published

Portal Comment

continued on page 21 Oslash

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An innocent man unjustly imprisonedJoanna Bogle pulls no punches

By Any measure this is one of the biggest stories in modern legal history A Cardinal Archbishop of one of the most famous

cities in the world is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned A nationwide outcry against him unites thugs and shrieking mobs with lengthy tirades on a public-funded TV network along with media hacks wannabe pop singers and internet commentators all intent on denouncing him No one who supports him is given a public voice on mainstream media

And then the countryrsquos highest court in a unanimous verdict acquits him It becomes clear that the whole story rested on the wholly unsubstantiated allegations of one man in a story riddled with inconsistencies The Cardinal is cleared and walks free

Truth triumphed But Cardinal George Pellrsquos treatment ndash by the mob by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation by campaigning media hounds intent on trashing his name and reputation ndash has been appalling Instead of getting the real story ndash a false accusation unjust imprisonment the loss of liberty the final vindication ndash the media following the acquittal has focused on repeating opinions and comments from people who are intent on trying to keep up their campaigns against the Cardinal

It is all worryingly in line with other massive anti-Catholic campaigns of history Londonrsquos famous monument commemorating the Great Fire of 1666 carried for nearly two centuries a false accusation that Catholics had started the fire For years children in Britain were taught that Catholic priests were traitors and spies Horror stories ndash notably a fraudulent account by ldquoMaria Monkrdquo about murders in a convent later discovered to be complete nonsense ndash abounded

And now in modern Australia ndash a country which had claimed with some justification to have a tradition of decency and fairness the bigotry has bubbled up anew ndash largely through activities by people brought up as Catholics

Cardinal Pell was the first and for some while the

only Australian bishop to tackle the problem of the abuse of children and young adults by some clergy His action was effective and necessary It became a model for other bishops around the world Like all sane and decent people he has spoken out against the vile abuse of children and regretted that more was not done earlier to prevent its occurring and to punish the wrongdoers

He has also long been an outspoken defender of the Christian teaching on sex marriage and family This brought him many enemies And somewhere in all of this came the united campaigns against him

What must happen now that his innocence has been declared and his freedom returned to him is a full investigation into how the false allegations could have reached the courts in the way that they did There was it seems a deliberate trawling by the police to try to find something against him There was weird collaboration with media activists A book promoting the case against Pell was widely celebrated and publicised even while court proceedings were going ahead Much of this happened with public money the police and the ABC are paid by Australiarsquos taxpayers

Cardinal George Pell is a man of honour and of Christian generosity and courage His first statement following his acquittal was to say that he bore no ill-will towards his accuser That is right and good Justice must also be served those who conspired to bring this absurd and bizarre case against him must now be brought to book There are investigations to be made and consequences to be faced Truth matters

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How to make the best of thingsSnapdragon has some ideas good bad and indifferent

As lsquosnAPdRAGOnrsquo pens this monthly column the country and much of the world is in lsquoLockdownrsquo and struggling with Coronavirus which originated in central

China but now engulfs almost the entire earth far beyond eastern Asia

For some of our most vulnerable and particularly elderly people the Covid-19 virus can mean literally death (and a horrible end coverted

away from their lsquoloved-onesrsquo) for a larger number of us illness and for all of us isolation huge changes to our normal lifestyle and profound impacts on our employment prosperity and national economies

While in no way seeking to minimise the heartbreak and personal suffering involved it has been refreshing to witness an outbreak (long apparently suppressed) of an lsquoold-fashionedrsquo sense of community and the genuine offer to help Neighbours who previously hardly spoke have offered to collect the shopping of elderly residents and others have willingly obliged when medicines are needed And where would we all be without food-store shelf-stackers delivery-men refuse-workers and those who keep the lights on in addition to our heroic doctors nurses and care staff

Perhaps one long-term benefit will be a new realisation of what constitutes an lsquoessential-workerrsquo Will we value determined shelf-stackers and care home assistants over for example stock market-traders and public-relations consultants Only time will tell

While many church congregations and their clergy are responding nobly and faithfully to the Coronavirus crisis lsquoSnapdragonrsquo has been somewhat disappointed by the Churchrsquos institutional response to the pandemic

Although lsquoSnapdragonrsquo understands the logic behind the severe guidance on social-distancing and avoiding mass gatherings it does seem astonishing that with the wonders of modern technology including lsquostreamingrsquo more churches have not maintained their usual round of worship particularly during the lsquoQueen of Feastsrsquo Easter lsquoSnapdragonrsquo is especially appalled that for the first time since 597- when St Augustine of Canterbury founded it- Canterbury Cathedral did not celebrate the Christian sacraments this Eastertide

This realm has previously experienced plague pestilence and war but never before has the ldquofaith once delivered to the saintsrdquo not been proclaimed at the first and premier cathedral of this land

Of course for several weeks before the lsquoLockdownrsquo the Catholic Bishops of England and Wales had decreed several key rules for receiving communion while avoiding infection Among these two certainly found favour with lsquoSnapdragonrsquo (suspending the ghastly ldquoGrope of Peacerdquo and receiving communion in one-kind namely the Host) while the third (receiving the Host in the hand rather than on the tongue) could have been devised by an architect of Vatican II

lsquoSnapdragonrsquo suspects that all the Portalrsquos readership found this Easter Triduum unique and unprecedented- denied the sacraments and rich imagery of the Catholic Church Hopefully as well as having recourse to the modern resources which technology makes possible Ordinariate members found fulfilment in wider spiritual reading recorded sacred music and similar reflection Following the canonisation of St John Henry Newman in 2019 lsquoSnapdragonrsquo and many others have discovered inspiration by exploring the lives of the many less well known British saints

More jocularly lsquoSnapdragonrsquo has found some much-needed light relief from re-inventing certain Church traditions in his mind

For example it occurred to me that todayrsquos Church ought to revise the practice of burning the previous yearrsquos Palm Sunday crosses to create ash every Ash Wednesday Instead judging by the state of the white vestments in my parish the set of these appalling garments ought to be ceremonially and publicly burned at Mass at the beginning of Lent (Why is it that white vestments seem to be always awful since Vatican II)

lsquoSnapdragonrsquo is also convinced that we ought to re-

continued at the foot page 8 Oslash


The Catechism of the Catholic Church

Who is the Mass really forFr Matthew Pittam reminds of us of some ldquohome truthsrdquo

FOR THE first time since I have been ordained I like so many of my brother priests have celebrated Mass without a congregation I am fortunate being a

married priest that members of my household will often accompany me to the Church each day to participate in the celebration

For the past nine years I have been in the same parish and each of the daily Masses has a distinctive congregation who have become such a part of my own life of prayer Things have felt very different owing to their absence On the days when I am completely alone it does seem odd and always in my mind is that Mass is the worship of Godrsquos people and is a dialogue between the faithful and God not a monologue

However worshipping without a congregation or just with my family reminds me that when we celebrate the Churchrsquos liturgy we do so for an audience of one - the Almighty Stripping away all the busyness of parish life has been a stark reminder of what we should be about We can often forget this and if we are not careful we begin to see worship as being primarily for those who gather in our Churches Worship is not entertainment for us but for the glorifying of God It is our fallible response to his love for us

So much in modern worship seeks to make us feel good as if gathering in Church was an extension of our consumer culture Too often we strive for relevance engagement and things that lsquopull a crowdrsquo Of course all worship should move us inspire us and help us to grow but this is not its primary purpose Sometimes one gets the feeling that many people are seeking a subjective experience instead of an objective truth

Do we find the liturgy boring at times and do we find our minds wandering Perhaps this is partly because without realising it we are viewing worship in the wrong way It is not about you but about God and is an offering to him alone When I was an Anglican curate it

was the week after Easter and the flower team in Church decided that because there was no Mass during the week they would do

fewer flowers because nobody would see them This completely misses the point

All we do in Church flowers music art singing candles and incense are not there to give us a spiritual lsquofixrsquo They are there for the glory of the creator

Lowell Ogden tells the story of a little boy who lived in America at the turn of the century The circus was coming to his town and he had never been to one before As a treat the father gave the son some money and off the boy went excitedly

As he approached the town he saw people lining the streets and he got his first glimpse of the parade There were

animals in cages and marching bands with a clown at the rear The little boy was so excited that when the clown passed he gave him all the money his father had given him thinking that he has seen all of the circus

Many people seem to attend Mass like that little boy We may come with the intent of worshipping God and entering into the Holy Mysteries but all we often see is the parade - liturgy prayer hymns preaching From our pews we see all the activity and return home having missed the main event - a worshipful encounter with the audience of one

Perhaps this time of absence from Mass may help reshape our focus and become a time of reflection about what is important to us in worship


Father Geoffrey Kirk 1945-2020 RIPObituary by Mgr John Broadhurst

IT Is often said that every cloud has a silver lining For me the cloud was the doctrinal and theological mess surrounding the debate about the ordination of women which consumed many of us for over 30

years The silver lining was that this debate brought me into contact with Geoffrey Kirk Though I had once met him at Saint Mark Marylebone Road in 1975 I donrsquot suppose we would ever have really met without the debate

I always felt that Geoffrey was the intellectual driving force behind Cost of Conscience and when the ordination of women became the programme for the Church of England of Forward in Faith Geoffrey was a member of the committee of Cost of Conscience He became a member of the committee of Forward in Faith and eventually Secretary

Geoffrey did not have much time for church politicians and it was only when I drafted the original lsquoAlternative Episcopal Oversightrsquo document that he realised perhaps I did have something to contribute Our collaboration began Geoffrey went on to draft The Communion Document and these two documents became the basis of everything that Forward in Faith struggled to achieve

Geoffrey was born in Leeds and later moved to Harrogate Underneath his very Oxbridge persona you could occasionally hear the Yorkshireman He was originally a Methodist and I donrsquot know when he became an Anglican He went to Oxford to read English and was a student at Keble College The Dean - Austin Farrer - was formative in Geoffreyrsquos life and he always claimed that he had been very influential in forming his theology

Later when Eric Mascall was in his declining years Geoffrey used to go and sit with him and indeed read to him He trained for the priesthood at Mirfield Theological College and was ordained in 1972 I know that in later years Geoffrey got a PhD but never used it as he considered it lsquovulgarrsquo He had a very prolific mind and contributed dozens of articles including a chapter in Quo Vaditis He was a major contributor to the book Consecrated Women After his retirement he wrote an analysis of the ordination of women and its theology called lsquoWithout Precedentrsquo

Geoffrey was a very talented man in many areas His sermons were always incisive and worth listening to

You always went away with something to think about After three brief curacies he became Priest-in-Charge and later vicar of St Stephen Lewisham He restored the church and beautified it and the congregation grew substantially in his time He had taken over a broken community and left a large and competent family

It always surprised me that Geoffrey was as at home with very ordinary people as he was with intellectuals When I was offered the bishopric of Fulham the only person apart from my wife that I told was Geoffrey I phoned him and said I had good news and bad news - they were both the same - I was to be his bishop

Whenever I went to the parish it was obvious that Geoffrey loved them and they loved him He was a fantastic parish priest but surprisingly un-clerical He hardly ever wore clerical dress and reminded me of rather trendy French priests of the 60s Certainly his theology and dress did not seem to match

He was a real word-smith and when I visited his parish school he asked the assembly what their word of the week was They then replied with some exotic word and proceeded to define it I was impressed when

he then asked the children what last weekrsquos word was and the word for the week before One of these words was one I had never heard There will be some very articulate children in Lewisham

Geoffrey was one of the funniest men I have met He wrote under many pseudonyms in New Directions and his articles were sometimes waspish but always very funny For many years he wrote as Archdeacon Armitage Shanks and whenever New Directions arrived it was the first thing I read I never ceased to be amazed at the humour that he produced He also produced spoof Christmas cards which were parodies of great hymns in the style of liberal Christians

The one that I remember still was written at the time of the Bishop of Durham and contained the hymn ldquoNo one comes with clouds descendingrdquo His humour could occasionally be dangerous

In Scranton we went to a very good restaurant and the

very camp waiter said lsquoHi Irsquom Carmenrsquo and Geoffrey said ldquoDoes Bizet know that Carmen is a fellerrdquo

In a New York restaurant the waitress came and said lsquomore coffeersquo Geoffrey replied ldquoOwe thatrsquos wart it warsrdquo in a most affected voice He could be very naughty

The Archdeacon threatened to freeze his stipend if he did not fill in the diocesan returns lsquoGood heavens Archdeacon surely you donrsquot imagine I live on thatrsquo

Geoffrey was also an outstanding cook and used to do catering with his friend Wendy When he was restoring his church he would hire himself out for dinner parties at his vicarage where he would do all the catering He raised a large amount of money doing this and it was typical of him I think the only argument I ever had with him was when I said I would love to arrange a dinner but wanted him to be one of his own guests

Towards the end his health deteriorated He was in Singapore with his friend Hock and scratched his leg on coral Geoffrey had been diabetic for years and the wound never really healed He had several operations on his feet but nothing seemed to cure his problem His kidneys deteriorated and he ended up on dialysis every other day This went on for some years He eventually died at 3am on Good Friday

Another side of Geoffrey was his great hospitality I know at least 15 people from the US and Scandinavia who used Geoffreyrsquos home as their London hotel Indeed the Co-Editors of this magazine did so

Even towards the end of his life mutual friends were still staying with him Not long before he died he came up to visit me He was a very loyal and self-sacrificing friend He asked me to receive him and confirm him in the Catholic Church and I did so in 2012 He thanked me for making him an honest man

In 2015 Geoffrey celebrated his 70th birthday and hired Cavendish Hall in Suffolk for four days He invited his closest friends to join him in his celebration and we had a typical Geoffrey time Good food and good company good conversation and fantastic surroundings

May he rest in peace


Snapdragon continued from page 5

introduce the custom of a clerical curse to the laity at the conclusion of every Mass to motivate Christians May I implore my devoted readers to respond

with their own suggestions of useful lsquonewrsquo traditions Ladies and gentlemen I await your ideas


Living alone with isolation orders Basil Youdell of the Chichester Ordinariate has a personal view

ldquoFromhellip plague pestilence and famine from battle and murder and from sudden death Good Lord deliver usrdquo

The Litany BCP

WELL nOW Irsquove experienced battle murder and sudden death on the streets of Belfast

in the 1970-80s Who knows if famine may yet be visited upon us but at present we are in the midst of plague and pestilence

Personally I was just about to move back to central London from Sussex where Irsquove lived for the past four years clearly that particular project will be on hold for awhile My reading has recently turned to plague literature especially revisiting Defoersquos lsquoA Journal of the Plague Yearrsquo and of course Pepysrsquos Diaries for the same period (1665 with 100000 fatalities in London) Pepys was certainly a lsquobusiness as usualrsquo fellow not diminishing the seriousness of the epidemic but refusing to be projected into an impotent panic either

As a respite from reading let me heartily recommend a Spanish TV series lsquoLa Pestersquo (2018) English sub-titles ndash a splendid period drama set in Seville 1597 including lashings of ecclesiastical detail the Inquisition filth and grunge

On YouTube lsquoThe Great Plaguersquo Channel 4 docu-drama (2004) is also fascinating relying as it does in large measure on the journal and accounts of the Church Warden of St Dunstan-in-the-West so therersquos a bit of patrimony for you Full of comforting thoughts ainrsquot I These historical accounts do however serve to place our present predicament into some perspective

ldquoHe needs to get out morerdquo I hear you cry Well I canrsquot and neither can you I presently live right on the sea-front and down here with a few notable exceptions most folk have been obedient to the dictates of the government regarding social distancing but like myself have been able to enjoy some brief daily exercise and fresh air Likewise Irsquove continued to undertake my own shopping ever mindful of the regulations as are the shop staff many of whom I know from Church ndash this latter being of course the one building which we cannot now enter at all

I live alone and self-isolation is hardly a difficulty for me I probably spend more time on my own than a Carthusian (I visited Parkminster many years ago) I am since childhood (only child) given over to a certain melancholia in a delightful lsquogothikrsquo sense coupled with a natural tendency to mystical religion and contemplation thus I can cope with an absence of liturgical celebrations ndash though my preference in that area is for the baroque or byzantine I would like to imagine that this enforced lack of public celebrations of Mass coupled with more time at home will encourage the faithful to explore the profound range of mystical writing which form a part of the Patrimony of the Ordinariate

Irsquove tried lsquoonlinersquo participationrsquo but itrsquos not something I really warm to Choral Evensong on Radio 3 is fine even perhaps a Low Mass in the Extraordinary Form but watching a Missa pro populo when there are none does as much for me as watching the blessed Thora Hird or Harry Secombe in days of yore

As the son of a scientist I must say itrsquos not been a good month for science Projections based on mathematical modelling and probability theory have always of course been inexact one expects that but when doctors virologists epidemiologists and bio-chemists start disagreeing with each other in the media itrsquos bad We are constantly told by the scientific lsquobrain onlyrsquo materialists that science ndash hard empirical undisputed facts - should be the only determinants of contemporary life not subjective opinions or feelings One is therefore surprised to see and hear doctors publicly disagreeing on simple matters such as the signs and symptoms of Coronavirus are they similar to lsquoflursquo or are they not Whether face masks and of which sort are of any use How far does a sneeze or cough travel This is not conducive to public confidence in science Questions which might quite legitimately be debated between professionals in the lab or medical school should not be aired casually on the TV lest these professionals begin to sound like medieval schoolmen offering rival opinions on whether the movement of angels is instantaneous

As they used to say on lsquoDragnetrsquo ldquoJust the facts marsquoamrdquo Stay well and stoical until this tyranny be overpast


Thoughts on Newman

When this is all overThe Revd Dr Stephen Morgan

REAdERs WILL forgive me if I return to a subject that I wrote about only two months ago so important is it to me at present

Last month I learned that one of my brothers has COVID-19 I remember the day of his birth I remember sitting by his cradle when he was dangerously ill as a baby

I remember his uncontained joy when his daughter ndash now nearly twenty-three ndash was born I recall seeing him broken by the duplicitousness of those in whom he had placed so much trust

We are not close and have never really got on particularly well but he is my brother This week I learned that when this is all over I want to see him and talk with him

Last month I learned that my wife has been temporarily laid off from work from a job she loves and my younger son has had the offer of his first post-university job rescinded both because of the shutdown in the UK

I was supposed to be home at the end of March and again at the end of April but re-entry restrictions here meant that I had to cancel the trip I can chat with them on Skype but I canrsquot embrace them and console them This week I learned that when this is all over I have to take every opportunity to demonstrate my love as a husband and father

Last month I learned that a friend I had not spoken to in three years had died two years ago alone in his home in Greece I found this out because of a tweet marking the death from COVID-19 related causes of someone else which contained a video that my friend had made with that person

This week I learned that when this is all over I must never again let the opportunity to speak with friends slip by

Last month I continued the sometimes-laborious task of reading closely the surviving letters between the Newman family as part of checking and rechecking proofs Thanks to this life-long often fractious or

uncomprehending correspondence between John Henry Newman and his siblings about which I wrote in March I have been forced to reflect upon my own relationships

I have been struck by and I hope recovered a lively sense of the importance of those relationships with friends and families over and above the more immediately pressing but often in reality trivial daily round of business

Like most truisms the proverb lsquoabsence makes the heart grow fonderrsquo is a clicheacute precisely because it contains more than a kernel of truth and one which bears repeating I was supposed to be at home in Britain in the week that this article will appear COVID-19 related restrictions on re-entry to China for foreigners means that this enforced unlooked-for and thoroughly unwelcome absence has compelled me to a profound reflection on things that ought in truth to have been more than blatantly obvious

When this is all over ndash and over it will be ndash I hope and pray that the old atomised selfish objectifying consumption-of-ever-more-stuff lsquonormalrsquo of my all too often pointlessly distracted life will fade unlamented from view and that a new normal will take its place a normal where relationships with my family and friends will displace those ultimately far less important concerns from the top spots in my lsquothings to dorsquo list

If that happens ndash and it is a big lsquoif rsquo ndash it will be thanks to Francis Charles Mary Jemima and Harriet Newman as much as to their sainted brother

lsquoFriendship is not only the message of the

gospel it is also the best medium of conveying itrsquo

Our windowon the CofE


Coronavirus ndash ConfusionThe Revd Paul Benfield attempts to unravel a knot

MAny OF you will have the seen the Prime Ministerrsquos address to the nation on Monday 23rd March in which he said that all places of worship must close The next day The Archbishops and Bishops of the

Church of England wrote to all clergy saying lsquoOur church buildings must now be closed not only for public worship but for private prayer as well and this includes the priest or lay person offering prayer in church on their ownrsquo

This letter was sent to diocesan bishops and was disseminated by them with their own glosses on the situation Over the next 48 hours the situation became more and more confused showing a total lack of coherent leadership from Lambeth Bishops wrote to their diocesan clergy telling them that they must follow the instructions from Lambeth and the Bishop of Rochester even pointed out that failure to do so could lead to disciplinary proceedings

The Bishop of Rochester though banning his clergy from going to the House of the Lord himself went off to the House of Lords a point not lost on journalists

Some bishops wrote to clergy admitting there was confusion between government and church advice The Bishop of Sheffield told his clergy that the Bishop at Lambeth was addressing the matter to try and remove the confusion The Bishop of Winchester said that the government advice was now being corrected the bishops apparently now attempting to tell the government what to do

I understand that there were various negotiations going on behind the scenes between bishops and ministers and church and government civil servants Whatever may have been said or thought to have been agreed the Secretary of State made and published the Health Protection (Coronavirus) (England) Regulations at 1pm on Thursday 26th March and they came into force immediately

These provided that a place of worship may be used for funerals and to broadcast an act of worship whether over the internet or as part of a radio or television broadcast They also went on to say that a minister of religion may leave the place where they are living to go to their place of worship

So we now had the law of the land saying clergy could live stream services and the bishops saying they

could not More than that the canons of the Church of England require that Holy Communion be celebrated in every parish church (or at least every benefice) every Sunday and on Maundy Thursday

The Archdeacon of Hastings wrote an article in the Church Times questioning the reasons for and the legality of the bishopsrsquo actions The bishops argued that the legal doctrine of necessity gave them power to dispense from the requirement to celebrate Holy Communion But such dispensation did not mean that they could prevent clergy from officiating in their churches

The Archbishops and bishops issued another letter to clergy on 27th March saying that though not being able to worship in our church buildings was difficult lsquoStreaming worship from home shows that we are alongside those who are having to self-isolate and those who are forgoing so many other things in their lives that they used to rely on

It also shows that we are facing up to the same restrictions as them and doing all that we can to take a lead in encouraging people to stay at home protect the NHS and save livesrsquo

Some clergy continued to live stream from their churches In London this was encouraged by the bishops in places where the clergy house was attached to the church (though this permission was later withdrawn) In Chichester the bishop advised clergy to act within the law and according to their consciences

On Easter Day on the Andrew Marr show on BBC television the Archbishop of Canterbury said to the astonishment of many that the bishops had not issued instructions but just guidance He was later seen live streaming a service of Holy Communion from his kitchen


What is a Vicar GeneralOur new Vicar General Fr David Waller gives some answers

THE EdITORs have asked me to write an article reflecting on ldquomy feelings on being asked to be the Ordinariatersquos 1st Vicar Generalrdquo ldquothe role of a Vicar Generalrdquo and ldquohow I see that role in the life of the

Ordinariaterdquo Some of those are easier to answer than others but here we gohelliphellip

I was genuinely surprised when late last December Mgr Newton asked me if I would be prepared to be his Vicar General I did not know that he was intending to make such an appointment let alone that I was being considered I gather that there had been conversations among some who were present at a meeting I was unable to attend

On the basis that I have always said that I would do anything I was asked to do for the Ordinariate I agreed and I have to say I feel honoured and very excited Excited because I believe the Ordinariate is an exciting place to be as we continue to respond to the vision given by Pope Benedict

Canon Law states that every diocese is to have a Vicar General ldquoto assist in the governance of the whole dioceserdquo Others have defined the Vicar General as ldquothe crook at the top of the Bishoprsquos Staff rdquo The Vicars General from England and Wales meet periodically and I have already discovered that the role is different in each diocese depending on local circumstances structures skills and personalities Attendance at those meetings is very helpful because a number of those present have Ordinariate communities in their dioceses and by and large they are very appreciative of the Ordinariate

Without a crystal ball it is impossible to know how the role of a Vicar General will develop in the life of the Ordinariate we can however be certain that it will begin where we are in the here and now and develop in such direction as the Holy Spirit leads The recent document ldquoOur Calling amp Our Missionrdquo reflects on the Mission of the Ordinariate as a work of God and identifies key areas in which we need to build in the coming years Whilst neither the Vicar General nor the Episcopal Vicars are mentioned in the document their appointments coincide with its publication and they will be instrumental in its implementation

The life of the Ordinariate is ultimately the life of its members and as I begin my new role it will be essential to visit groups and individual clergy to hear what God is doing in each locality and so to build the bigger picture I have never yet visited a group and not come away moved by what is happening Invitations are welcome ndash there are occasional Sundays when I can celebrate and preach (but these are dependant on finding supply cover for my own parish) weekdays are comparatively easy and it is always good to visit meet groups answer questions etc

The key issues identified in ldquoOur Calling and Our Missionrdquo are divided into three groups or Vicariates two of those vicariates are served by Episcopal Vicars however the decree of my appointment states

ldquowithout prejudice to the general power of governance possessed by you as Vicar General you also have a particular responsibility for developing and encouraging the Common Life of the said Ordinariate in the following areas Developing and growing groups personal parishes pastoral areas amp deaneries Strengthening the ordinariate identity in our communities Developing our distinctive liturgical and spiritual life Reflecting our Anglican patrimony by worshipping in the beauty of holiness Encouraging the use of Divine Worship Developing a vibrant lay faithful Developing and drawing on the gifts of our Religious and hermits Providing high quality pastoral care Safeguarding and protecting vulnerable people Engaging with local communities Promoting Catholic social teaching and action Bringing treasures to share Promoting marriage family and the sanctity of liferdquo

That means that much of my time will be devoted to the work of the Common Life Vicariate ndash not as some Lone Ranger but in relationship with my fellow Deans Coordinators Group Pastors and the Lay Faithful of the Ordinariate


Farewell to a friend colleague and supporterGeoffrey Kirk 10th December 1945 ndash Friday 10th April 2020An appreciation from the Editors of The PorTal

WHEn FR Peter Geldard decided that he could no longer write our final page for the Portal each month as pressure of work as a University Chaplain left precious little time for the task this coincided

with Geoffrey Kirk entering into full communion with the Catholic Church He was the obvious person to take on that all-important last page With characteristic generosity Geoffrey agreed at once

He was a joy to have on our team His interest in and knowledge of ecclesiastical politics his hatred of cant all combined with what Bishop Lindsay Urwin called ldquohis razor wit and intellectrdquo to ensure his articles were often controversial but never dull Early indications of the results of our recent questionnaire show that his articles were among the most popular His views were not always those with which people agreed but they were always worth reading

Geoffrey had that wonderful and rare gift of making real friends with those with whom he profoundly disagreed This was true whether those views were theological philosophical or political Although he had firm views on them all he was quite prepared to befriend those who thought otherwise Neither was Geoffrey a snob His friends included the high and low born the intellectual and the more prosaic

Geoffreyrsquos interests included theology politics art music drama and literature As Robbie Low pointed out the books were double stacked on the shelves His friends and colleagues were invited to use the house he shared with companion Hock as if it were an hotel as your Editors know from personal experience The Editors of the Portal have been privileged to know Geoffrey as a colleague friend and supporter

Geoffrey died on Good Friday after a long painful tedious and debilitating illness What better day for such a one to go His funeral is to be in his home-town of Harrogate It is to be hoped that a proper Requiem Mass may be held for Geoffrey at Most Precious Blood London Bridge ndash his Parish Church - when the present crisis is over In the meanwhile we pray that he may Rest in Peace

Jesu mercy Mary pray

The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham

Retreat forLay People

Share Rooms pound200 per person Single pound250 per person

To book your place send a pound20 non-returnable deposit to Ordinariate Lay Retreat 56 Woodlands Farm Road

Pype Hayes Birmingham B24 0PG together with your name address

and any special dietary or other needs

Cheques to be made out to The Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham

at Hothorpe Hall Theddingworth Leicestershire LE17 6QX (just off the M1 junction 20)

Friday evening to Sunday afternoon 6th to 8th November 2020

Retreat conductorThe Revd Fr Tim Bugby

of the Ordinariate

The ReveReND DOCTOR GeOFFRey KiRK will be buried in his beloved yorkshire on Tuesday 5th May This will of necessity be a simple ceremony

in normal times in accordance with his wishes his body would have been brought into Church the previous evening Since this is not possible under the current restrictions Fr Christopher Pearson will say a Mass of Requiem for our brother Geoffrey on Monday 4th May at 630pm This will be live-streamed at

wwwfacebookcompreciousbloodSE1live


BIRMInGHAM St Margaret Mary 59 Perry Common Road Birmingham B23 7AB MaSS Sunday 10am ConTaCT Fr Simon Ellis 0121 373 0069 - birminghamordinariateorguk

BLACK COUnTRy Our Lady of Perpetual Succour Cannock Road Wolverhampton WV10 8PG MaSS 3rd Sunday of the month 12 noon (followed by refreshments) also on Wed 10am ConTaCT Fr John Greatbatch 07799 078164 - frjohn2256gmailcom - blackcountryordinariateorguk

BOURnEMOUTH St Thomas More Exton Road Bournemouth BH6 5QG MaSS Sunday 1115am and Wed 1030am ConTaCT Fr Darryl Jordan 01202 485588 - bournemouthordinariateorguk

BRIsTOL St Joseph Camp Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 2EN MaSS 2nd Sunday of the month 12 noon (Divine Worship) followed by shared lunch and Benediction at 230pm (subject to change in the summer months) ConTaCT Deacon James Patrick bristolordinariateorguk

BUCKFAsT St Maryrsquos Abbey Buckfast TQ11 0EE MaSS Sunday 2pm (Divine Worship) followed by TeaCoffee - Mass usually in St Michaelrsquos Chapel plenty of parking restaurant on site also bookshop and monastic produce for sale ConTaCT Fr Ian Hellyer 01752 600054 - ianhellyerorg

CHELMsFORd Blessed Sacrament 116 Melbourne Avenue Chelmsford CM1 2DU MaSS Sunday 930am and 1130am (on 1st Sunday of the month specifically Ordinariate) also on Mon to Sat at 915am with RC community ConTaCT chelmsfordordinariateorguk

CHICHEsTER St Richard Cawley Road Chichester PO19 1XB MaSS Saturday 415pm SungSolemn (Divine Worship) ConTaCT Fr Graham Smith 07710 328685 - frgrahamsmithgmailcom

COLCHEsTER St John Payne Blackthorn Avenue Greenstead CO4 3QD MaSS 3rd Sunday

of the month 4pm ConTaCT Fr Jon Ravensdale 01206 870460 - sjpchurchbtinternetcom

CORnWALL St Augustine of Hippo St Austell PL25 4RA MaSS Sunday 5pm also on Wed 7pm ConTaCT Fr Fr David Lashbrooke 07427 107304 - cornwallordinariateorguk

COVEnTRy The Precious Blood of Our Lord amp All Souls Kingsland Avenue Earlsdon Coventry CV5 8DX MaSS 1115am (Solemn) ConTaCT Fr Paul Burch 02476 674161 - paulburchordinariateorguk

CROydOn At the moment the Croydon Group does not have any Ordinariate Masses but it is hoped thinks might begin again soon - for further information ConTaCT Jackie Brooks 0208 777 6426 - jaxprintbtinternetcom

dARLInGTOn St Osmund Main Road Gainford County Durham DL2 3DZ MaSS Sundays 930am Parish Mass 1130am Solemn Mass Mon 12 noon Tues 10am Wed 10am Thurs 10am Fri 7pm Sat 10am Holydays 7pm Confessions after Mass on Thurs Fri Sat ConTaCT Fr Ian Grieves PP 01325 730191 - darlingtonordinariateorguk - wwwdarlingtonordinariateweeblycom

dEAL St John the Evangelist St Richardrsquos Road Mongeham Deal Kent CT14 9LD MaSS Sunday 11am 6pm Evensong ConTaCT Fr Christopher Lindlar 01304 374870 or 07710 090195 - clindlarbtinternetcom or dealordinariateorguk

dERBynOTTInGHAM St John the Evangelist Midland Road Stapleford Nottingham Notts NG9 7BT MaSS 1st Sunday of the month 11am St Paul Lenton Boulevard Nottingham NG7 2BY MaSS every Sunday 6pm (Divine Worship) ConTaCT Fr Christopher Cann 01889 569579 - derby-nottinghamordinariateorguk Fr Peter Peterken 01332 766285 - peterpeterkenntlworldcom Fr David Jones 01162 302244 charlie75845yahoocom

Ordinariate GroupsWhere to find us at prayer in England Scotland and Wales

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With the current Government guidelines during the coronavirus pandemic all churches are to remain closed You will find details of where to find live streamed

and recorded Masses from the Ordinariate on wwwordinariateorguk


EAsTBOURnE St Agnes 6 Whitley Road BN22 8NJ MaSS Sunday 4pm (Divine Worship) Our Lady of Ransom Grange Road BN21 4EU MaSS Mon 730pm (Divine Worship) Christ the King Princes Road BN23 6HT MaSS Thur 8pm (Divine Worship) ConTaCT Fr Neil Chatfield 07718 123304 - neilchatfieldeastbourneordinariateorguk Fr Thomas Mason - thomasmasoneastbourneordinariateorguk - wwweastbourneordinariateorguk

FOLKEsTOnE Our Lady Help of Christians 41 Guildhall Street Folkestone Kent CT20 1EF MaSS Sunday 11am (with parish) ConTaCT Fr Stephen Bould (Group Pastor) Fr James Houghton - folkestoneordinariateorguk

HARLOW The Assumption of Our Lady Mulberry Green Old Harlow Essex CM17 0HA MaSS Sunday 10am and 6pm Evensong and Benediction 5pm (last Sunday of month) ConTaCT Fr John Corbyn 01279 429388 - johncorbynbtinternetcom

HEMEL HEMPsTEAd St Markrsquos Hollybush Lane Hemel Hempstead HP1 2PH MaSS Sunday 845am Wed 745pm ConTaCT Fr Simon Chinery 07971 523008 - hemelhempsteadordinariateorguk

IsLE OF WIGHT St Davidrsquos Connaught Road East Cowes PO32 6DP MaSS every Saturday 5pm (Vigil Mass - Divine Worship) ConTaCT Fr Jonathan Redvers Harris 01983 292726 - frjonathanrhbtinternetcom

LEyTOnsTOnEWAnsTEAd St John Vianney Clayhall Ilford IG5 0JB MaSS Sunday 10am (Solemn Mass) 12 noon (last Sun of month Solemn Mass Divine Worship) 430pm (Exposition) 5pm (Low) Daily (except Mon) 830am (Exposition) 9am (Mass) Holy Days 9am (Low) 8pm (Solemn) Confessions Sat 10am or by appointment ConTaCT Fr Rob Page 020 8550 4540 - clayhalldioceseofbrentwoodorg

LOndOn CEnTRAL Our Lady of the Assumption and St Gregory Warwick Street London W1B 5LZ (Nearest tube Piccadilly) MaSS Sunday 1030am Solemn Mass with choir (Divine Worship) Weekdays 8am and 1245pm (Novus Ordo in English) Feasts and Solemnities as advertised ConTaCT Fr Mark Elliott-Smith 07815 320761 - markelliottsmithrcdoworguk

LOndOn sOUTH Most Precious Blood OrsquoMeara Street The Borough London SE1 1TE MaSS Sunday 830am 11am Mon-Fri 105pm Thur (term time) 630pm (Divine Worship) Walsingham Mass 1st Sat of the month 10am (Divine Worship)

Holy Days (additional) 630pm (Divine Worship) Evensong Thur 6pm (term time) Confessions Sun 1030am Mon-Fri 1230pm ConTaCT Fr Christopher Pearson 0207 407 3951 - parishpreciousbloodorguk - wwwpreciousbloodorguk

LOndOn WALTHAMsTOW Christ the King 455 Chingford Road Chingford E4 8SP MaSS Sunday 11am ConTaCT Fr David Waller 020 8527 4519 - walthamstowsouthordinariateorguk

MAIdsTOnE Chapel of Our Lady 37a Barming Road Wateringbury Maidstone Kent ME18 5BD MaSS Sunday 11am (Divine Worship) ConTaCT Fr Ed Tomlinson 01892 725009 maidstoneordinariateorg uk

MAnCHEsTER St Margaret Mary St Margaretrsquos Road New Moston M40 0JE MaSS Sunday 1030am (Divine Worship) MaSS during the week please check the Sunday notices on the website ConTaCT Fr Andrew Starkie 0161 681 1651 - manchesterordinariateorguk - wwwordinariatemcrcom

nORTHAMPTOn Our Lady of the Sacred Heart 82 Knox Road Wellingborough NN8 1JA MaSS First Saturday of the month 6pm (Sung Mass) ConTaCT Mgr John Broadhurst 01933 674614 - frjohnbroadhurstbtinternetcom

OXFORd Holy Rood Abingdon Road Oxford OX1 4LD MaSS Saturday (of Sunday) 5pm (Divine Worship) Sunday 1115pm Wed 9am Thu 730pm (Divine Worship) 8pm Adoration amp Confessions 940pm Compline and Benediction Fri 1230pm (Latin) Sat 9am ConTaCT Fr Daniel Lloyd 01865 437066 - daniellloydordinariateorguk or Mgr Andrew Burnham 01235 835038 - andrewburnhamordinariateorguk - wwwthamesisisorguk

PORTsMOUTH St Agatha Cascades Approach Portsmouth PO1 4RJ MaSS Sunday 11am (Solemn) Mon Fri (Requiem) and Sat 11am ConTaCT infostagathaschurchcouk - wwwstagathaschurchcouk

REAdInG St James Abbey Ruins Forbury Road Reading Berkshire RG1 3HW (next to old Reading Gaol) MaSS Sunday 915am ConTaCT Fr David Elliott 07973 241424 - readingordinariateorguk

sALIsBURy Most Holy Redeemer Fortherby Crescent Bishopdown Salisbury Wiltshire SP1 3EG MaSS Sunday 11am 6pm Evensong and Benediction (2nd Sunday) Wed 7pm (in St Osmundrsquos Exeter Street Salisbury SP1 2SF) ConTaCT Fr Jonathan Creer 07724 896579 - jonathancreerhotmailOslash


couk or salisburyordinariateorguk

sOUTHEnd St Peterrsquos Eastwood 59 Eastwood Road North Leigh on Sea SS9 4BX MaSS Sunday 1015am (said 830am and 6pm) 1st Sunday 12noon (Divine Worship) Mon-Sat (except Tues) 930am followed by Rosary Thur 730pm (check website) Confession Sat 10am ConTaCT Fr Jeffrey Woolnough (Group Pastor) 01702 525323 07956 801381 - fatherjeffwgmailcom Fr Bob White 01268 543910 - pilgrimclubwaitrosecom Deacon Richard Cerson 07910 388795 - rcersongmailcom - wwwstpetereastwoodorg wwwjeffwoolnougholwblogspotcouk

TORBAy The Personal Parish and Church of Our Lady of Walsingham with St Cuthbert Mayne Old Mill Road (junc of Ashfield Road) Chelston TQ2 6HJ MaSS (Divine Worship) Sunday 10am Mon 12 noon Tues Adoration 5pm Mass 6pm Wed 12 noon followed by lunch Thurs 10am Fri Adoration 5pm Mass 6pm Sat 10am ConTaCT Fr David Lashbrooke 07427 107304 - davidlashbrookeordinariateorguk - wwwourladyofwalsinghamcom

WALsInGHAM Dowry House Chapel 47-49 High Street Walsingham Norfolk NR22 6BZ MaSS 1st Sunday 3pm (Divine Worship) ConTaCT Fr Gordon Adam 01553 777428 - gordonadam1962btinternetcom Dcn Shaun Morrison 07880 600094 - shaunmorrison1975btinternetcom

sCOTLAnd - wwwordinariatescotEdInBURGH St Columba 9 Upper Gray St Edinburgh EH9 1SN MaSS 2nd Sundays 230pm (Divine Worship) ConTaCT Fr Len Black 01463 235597 - frlenordinariatescot

InVERnEss Royal Northern Infirmary Chapel Ness Walk Inverness IV3 5SF MaSS Sunday 1130am (Divine Worship) MiD-wEEk Tues Thurs Feast Days 1115am (Divine Worship) please check wwwordinariatescot for time and location ConTaCTS Fr Len Black 01463 235597 - frlenordinariatescot Fr Cameron Macdonald 01663 453867 - nairnordinariatescot

WHITHORn St Martin and St Ninian George Street Whithorn DG8 8PZ MaSS Tuesday 11am (Divine Worship) Sat 5pm (with parish) ConTaCT Fr Simon Beveridge 01988 850786 - whithornordinariatescot

nAIRn St Mary 7 Academy Street Nairn IV12 4RJ MaSS 1st Monday 10am (Divine Worship) ConTaCT Fr Cameron Macdonald 01667 453867 - nairnordinariatescot

WALEs sOUTH EAsT Ss Basil amp Gwladys Tregwilym Road Rogerstone Newport NP10 9DW MaSS Sunday 1130am (Divine Worship) ConTaCT Fr Bernard Sixtus 02920 362599 or 07720 272137 - walesordinariateorguk - wwwordinariateorgukgroupswales-sephp

Updates email us at infoportalmagcoukShow your support for the Ordinariate

Our Lady of Walsingham Badge amp Cufflinkssold in support clergy stipends - available from

John Worley48 Lawn Lane

Hemel Hempstead HP3 9HL Badges pound4 each

Cufflinks pound12 (pair)please include SAE - Cheques payable to

Ordinariate OLWCoat of Arms of the

Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham

available fromOrdinariate Lapel Badge Ladiesrsquo Ordinariate Group

22 Redcross Way London SE1 1TACost pound5 (inc PampP) - cheques payable to Ordinariate OLW

Please remember to include your name and address

Forms of words for making a bequest in favour of the Personal

Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in your Will

i Give to the PeRSONAL ORDiNARiATe OF OuR LADy OF WALSiNGhAM 24 Golden Square London W1F 9JR the sum of _________ pounds (pound ) and i DiReCT that the receipt of the Treasurer or other proper officer of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham shall be good and sufficient discharge to my executor

ori Give the residue of my estate to the PeRSONAL ORDiNARiATe OF OuR LADy OF WALSiNGhAM 24 Golden Square London W1F 9JR and i DiReCT that the receipt of the Treasurer or other proper officer of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham shall be good and sufficient discharge to my executor


Our Calling amp Our Mission with ZOOMThe Editors of The Portal encourage you to participate in this great consultation exercise using ZOOM

yOUR EdITORs have been meeting with Ordinariate Pastoral Council member Stephen Slack to study the recently published report Our Calling amp Our Mission This short document of some twelve

pages looks at the life work and vision of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham over the next five years

Initially we were actually to meet that is in the same room However the isolation policy put paid to that idea so we decided to meet on-line using ZOOM Stephen set it all up and discovered that you get the first forty minutes free So being mean-minded we opted for forty minutes once a week

It really is very simple Once logged on we can all see each other and the speakerrsquos face takes centre stage Debate conversation questions and answers may all carry on more or less as if we were together Of course we are not together ndash that is the point But it is the next best thing If it is good enough for parliament then it is surely good enough for the Ordinariate

So far we have held three such meetings All have been profitable During our last meeting we thought it would be helpful if we told you about this and encouraged each and every Ordinariate Parish Mission and Group to do the same

Our Calling amp Our Mission is an important document It deserves to be taken seriously It is then incumbent on us all to read it and discuss it with our fellow members of the Ordinariate priests and people together

Our Calling amp Our Mission looks at the Ordinariate in three areas Our Common Life Vocation and Formation and Evangelisation Our Vicar General

Fr David Waller looks after the first Fr Michael Halsall is Episcopal Vicar for the second and Fr Christopher Lindlar is Episcopal Vicar for the third

Just what is the Ordinariate for What is our vision for the future Just how do groups situated so far from each other manage to relate at all These are just some of the issues raised in Our Calling amp Our Mission

Do make sure your voice is heard it is important Your priest will have a ldquoVision plan reviewrdquo that was supposed to be completed and returned to Golden Square by Trinity Sunday 7th June 2020 That is still possible if we all make sure

we take part in this wonderful consultation exercise

All you have to do is to contact your priest the other lay members of your Parish Mission or Group and set up a meeting To get copies of the document if your priest does not have any you can download it from the Ordinariate website - there is a link on the blue box on right of the front page Our Calling amp Our Mission

The direct link iswwwordinariateorgukresourcesour_callingphp

For ZOOM just go to httpszoomusdownload and follow the instructions

It really is that simple


School life under COVID-19 lockdownThe experience of John Crane a Headteacher of a CofE Primary School and member of the Colchester Ordinariate Group

THE POPULAR view in the staffroom was that the Government would try and get as close to the Easter holiday as they could Forcing schools to close one week early was the popular view In the end

the announcement came that we were to close the school two weeks early as events moved more rapidly than all of us expected

At 5pm on Wednesday 18th March Gavin Williamson announced that all schools would close on Friday 20th March There were a few exceptions given children of key workers and vulnerable children In addition we were expected to carry on providing free school meals At once hundreds of logistical questions raced through my mind How are key workers and vulnerable children defined How many staff do we need How will I protect staff Etc etc

In the two days before closure the school staff rallied round Work packs were sent home and rotas organised The website was given a makeover and many online learning resources were added The dedication of the staff was admirable I had to tell several members of staff that they were not to come into school when they were not on the rota

Attendance was already low in the week before closure with more than 25 of the pupils not attending for one reason or another School medical practice had already changed Children who had previously been encouraged to stay at school and see how they feel were now being sent home with the advice that they and their siblings should self-isolate A cough or raised temperature was now high on everyonersquos agenda

A number of precautions had already been taken Lunchtime routines had been changed to reduce the number of pupils in a room at any one time Daily whole-school worship had been changed to year group worship By good fortune we were reading the story of The Good Samaritan in Worship This enabled us to study who our neighbour is and look at how we should treat those in trouble or difficultyneed Pupils were encouraged to show love and care for everyone but especially for the people they do not like On the Friday before closure this message was reinforced and the pupils were told that it is ok to be scared and worried They too can help solve our global emergency by being superheroes - stay at home superheroes

In the midst of this last week there were a number of difficult moments Interviews had been scheduled and after much soul searching we decided that they should go ahead after all classes would still need a teacher in September We became aware that the coming Friday could become the last day at primary school for the Year 6 pupils They would miss out on the lovely things that are always planned for them - the end of term play leaversrsquo service residential trip and party This was hard for them and the staff We promised to do something special for them as soon as we were allowed to re-open the school Less of an issue was the cancelling of the Year 6 SATs tests Teachers develop a real bond with the pupils in their class and vice versa To have to say goodbye in such circumstances is really tough

The staff swung into full creative mode and worked to plan a fun and active curriculum for the pupils who would be allowed to attend There have been many highlights during the enforced closure including planting a hedge and potatoes outdoor art writing a collective story cooking marsh mallows on a camp fire and clay modelling We have made rainbows and signs for the NHS that now cover the school front gates However it has become the ritual to start the day with a Joe Wicks workout This is something that the majority of the school community participate in whether at home or school and gives us something to share

There have been a number of challenges during the enforced closure A number of staff have fallen ill with COVID-19 like symptoms although none has been tested Others fall into a vulnerable category and have therefore been kept away from school and supported to work from home This has resulted in a fluid staff rota that can change from day to day Parent working routines are also prone to change therefore we never quite know which pupils will be attending each day Fellow headteachers have reported that a number

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of their staff have been stopped by the Police while on their way to work While we have not experienced this all staff have been issued with a letter just in case

Free School Meals (FSM) and the DfE (Department for Education) announcing policy changes on the TV news and not telling Headteachers first has been a constant challenge We have frequently needed to explain to parents that all we know is what was announced on the news As a result we have needed to flesh out the details for announcements and do our best the serve our pupils One example was the announcement on 31st March that all pupils who qualify for FSM will now receive a government voucher of pound15 per child per week

Following a quick search online we were told to expect an email on how to process these payments on the same day Anticipating lots of parental enquiries I quickly went to school to prepare and await the email This proved to be a long wait as we twiddled our thumbs and answered parental enquiries with lsquowe donrsquot know eitherrsquo This email finally arrived at 710pm on 1st April Therefore the office staff and I once again found ourselves in school and spent the whole day on 2nd April being patient with the online portal and processing payments

It is still unclear whether parents will receive a voucher the week before the Easter holiday or if vouchers start after the holiday Because vouchers will not be provided over the holiday we made the decision to continue to provide all pupils who qualify for FSM a packed lunch over the holiday period The DfE has promised to reimburse us for these during term time but have said they will not do so over the holiday period

As we enter the Easter holiday we remain open to pupils of key workers with staff keen to come into school and do their bit To date we have catered for 23 different pupils for key workers however a typical day sees between six and ten attending When I reflect on the last few weeks it gives me great hope We have prayed together and supported each other Wersquore in uncharted waters but the strength of the school community has been heart-warming and uplifting

When we get our school back we need to remember and treasure the positives that have come from this global crisis We need to remember who our neighbour is and ensure that we are the neighbour that we want others to be taking our lead from The Good Samaritan

Letter to the EditorFrom Barry Barnes

May I take this opportunity to thank the editors of the Portal for each month producing an online magazine to keep us in touch with the other members of the Ordinariate and indeed the wider Church

I especially look forward to reading Snapdragon and I wonder if we have ever met Last month he reminisced about High Masses at St Bartrsquos Brighton I well recall a GSS Festival there when the thurifer had so stoked the pot that during the procession it burst into flames For many years I was MC of St Michaelrsquos Croydon which had a very similar liturgical style to St Bartrsquos with regular Haydn and Mozart settings for the High Mass augmented at the Great Festivals with trumpets and tympana

Snapdragon bemoaned the fact that the bow to the Celebrant going to or returning from the altar is now a thing of the past save for ex Anglo Catholics but of course that is not the only thing lost to cradle Catholics I fail to understand why since Vatican II no one crosses during the Creeds or genuflects at the incarnatus Other little rites that have almost disappeared are the bow at the Glory beand

crossing oneself in the Offices at the Gospel canticle I learnt at an early age to cross when passing a

Church or when a hearse and coffin drove past am I alone in observing these In her letter last month Sheila Campbell asked how we can hope to evangelise when Catholic priests and nuns are not recognisable as such a very valid point It used to be commonplace for Catholic priests at the very least to wear black shirts and ldquoRomanrdquo collars but today that is very rare There are of course sisters in habits even if the habit is skirt and blouse with a head covering but many orders dress in ordinary attire with the only item of distinction a small pectoral cross

It is good to report that all the Ordinariate religious wear habits or cassocks Many of you will have been watching the live screening from the Shrine and caught sight of Sr Jane Louise in her blue habit

Itrsquos about time that I got off my hobby horse before I ride into the sunset

Barry BarnesBy e-mail


Aid to the Church in Need

A Prayer storm against the PandemicJohn Newton and Maria Lozano report

WITHIn OnE week 50 monasteries throughout the world answered a call by Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) to pray for those affected by the COVID-19 virus ndash and also for ACN

its benefactors and its project partners

Talking about the initiative Dr Thomas Heine-Geldern Executive President of ACN (International) said ldquoWe want to let loose a prayer storm According to our founding charism one of the mainstays of our work at ACN is prayer

We always have faith in the prayers of all of our project partners but in these extraordinary times we also would like to find comfort and support in the lsquopraying heartrsquo of the Church ndash the contemplative ordersrdquo

Among the orders who have pledged their prayers are Carmelites Benedictines Dominicans and Franciscans

All those taking part are long-term project partners of ACN who live in countries where Christians are suffering such as Nigeria Chad Morocco Sri Lanka and Burkina Faso ndash or where the coronavirus pandemic has made pre-existing economic difficulties more acute such as Ecuador Venezuela and Ukraine

Most communities sent messages of solidarity along with their prayer pledges A message from the Poor Clares in Indonesia read ldquoWe promise that we will include your request for prayershellip We know that many of the benefactors are older and living alone We are therefore saying a special prayer for all benefactors May God keep them and be with themrdquo

Dr Heine-Geldern added that some of the messages of support came from priests and religious Sisters who have lost their sources of income because of the COVID-19 To support them during this time of

uncertainty ACN has pledged more than pound4 million in subsistence aid for religious communities who have lost their means of income so that they can continue their vital ministries bringing Godrsquos love and

compassion to our suffering brothers and sisters

The Carmelite monks from Buea Cameroon told ACN ldquoOf course we will pray together with you for the end of this terrible pandemic and for the return of the people to God

It will be very difficult to get this pandemic under control in Africa But we will not lose courage because Christ is our hope We believe in Him who said lsquoIn the world ye shall have tribulation but be of good cheer I have overcome the worldrsquordquo

Aid to the Church in Need - wwwacnukorg contact acnacnukorg or call 020 8642 8668

Throughout the world religious Sisters like this one in Ukraine are helping those in need during COVID-19 pandemic


a monograph on the ldquopriesthood of womenrdquo which argued the ordination of women is impossible

Deacon James keating PhD has been the Director of Theological Formation in the Institute for Priestly Formation at Creighton University in Omaha Nebraska since 2006 Last month he was appointed to the Formation Staff and as a Professor of Spiritual Theology at Kenrick-Glennon Seminary in St Louis Missouri Keating is well-known in the USA for his presentations and writings

Fr angelo Lameri 58 is a priest of the Italian diocese of Crema A consultant for the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments since 2010 he also advises the Office of the Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff

Dr Rosalba Manes 43 is a consecrated virgin and a biblical scholar She received a doctorate in biblical theology from Romersquos Gregorian University where she now teaches

Dr anne-Marie Pelletier 73 is from Paris She was named a member of the Pontifical Academy for Life by

Pope Francis in 2017 Pelletier has written extensively about the place of women in the Catholic faith and Church and obtained the Ratzinger prize in 2014

Pelletier was chosen by Pope Francis to write the Way of the Cross meditations for Good Friday 2017 She told ldquoLa Croixrdquo that ldquoBeing baptised should be sufficient qualification to open your mouth in the name of the Churchrdquo

She is known for her defense of Amoris laetitia In the January 12 2017 French edition of LrsquoOsservatore Romano she applauded the Apostolic exhortationrsquos ldquoattention to concrete conditions of conjugal liferdquo following ldquoample consultations of the baptisedrdquo and in a spirit of ldquotrue ecclesial collegialityrdquo She also praised its call for ldquodiscernmentrdquo and a ldquopastoralrdquo approach to sometimes ldquochaoticrdquo situations In an earlier statement to La Vie she referred to the prelates who had sent Francis questions regarding the document as ldquorebellious cardinalsrdquo who had ldquoordered the Pope to account forrdquo his approach

So five women and seven men We wait and see what they will come up with Watch this space

Portal comment continued from page 3

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Fr Michael Halsall writes

Vocations painted on a wider canvasFr Halsall opens up a wider use of the word ldquoVocationsrdquo

WHEnEVER THE word lsquovocationrsquo is used in the Christian context then instinctively one thinks of the need for more priests This is entirely understandable and is an urgent matter where the fall

in vocations to the priesthood ndash alongside the age-group of many priests ndash are reaching critical numbers in dioceses throughout England and Wales

However the word lsquovocationrsquo comes from the Latin verb lsquoto callrsquo and the Lord does that ndash calls us - into a variety of contexts and service We must not let the urgent need for more priests undermine the other important lives that are at the heart of the Christian community and life itself

I am thinking also of the permanent diaconate religious life marriage the single life and widowhood All these states of life have their origins in the New Testament and emerged in the earliest days of the primitive church Saint John Henry Newman wrote extensively on vocations We are not in this journey of discernment alone God calls us through our baptism to be a lsquoliving cellrsquo in the Body of Christ the Church ndash to be an active member of this community and so to learn from each other as fellow pilgrims on our journey through life In lsquoParochial and Plain Sermonsrsquo Newman considers what the lsquoCall of Christrsquo is and how we can discern what Christ is calling us individually to do

ldquoAll through our life Christ is calling us He called us first in Baptism but afterwards also whether we obey His voice or not He graciously calls us still If we fall from our Baptism He calls us to repent if we are striving to fulfil our calling He calls us on from grace to grace and from holiness to holiness while life is given usrdquo

When God calls us to some state of life or to some aspect of ministry and service then this is an extension of our baptismal calling in our own families and our Christian communities He never calls us without giving us the graces necessary to fulfil the task and that grace always adds to our nature ndash the raw material ndash the person whom he chooses

As a distinct Christian community within the

Catholic church the Ordinariates are committed to supporting their people in all these states of life The Vocations and Formation Committee which meets quarterly and reports to the Governing Council is expanding its vision and scope Alongside myself and the Ordinary we are joined by Deacon Richard Cerson and Ms Antonia Lynn in order that we can support vocations and formation to the permanent diaconate lay vocations and spiritual direction Fr Neil Chatfield will continue to attend in an advisory capacity

The Vocations pages on the website are currently being revised with some very good resources for groups to use in discussion andor prayer Vocations do not happen in a vacuum but within a context of prayer arising out of our baptismal calling To that end for Our Ladyrsquos month of May I have developed a Rosary for Vocations which will go online and be sent to group pastors Please use them throughout your devotions in May and beyond praying that God will call each of us to the life that he desires for us ldquohellip that we may have life and have it to the fullrdquo (John 1010)

I glorify you God in all that I doIn mind body and spirit I give my best to youHelp me to follow your will no matter what the callsister brother deacon or priestI promise my allIf you call me to marriageI promise to love and to teach my own childrento seek grace from aboveGlory be hellipJesus I trust in You

Fr Halsall is the Ordinariate Episcopal Vicar for Vocations and Formation

and is a member of the permanent staff at Allen Hall Seminary and may be contacted at

michaelhalsallrcdoworguk


Vatican II conservative or progressiveMgr Andrew Burnham reviews Fr Aidan Nicholsrsquo new book

lsquoCOnCILIAR OCTETrsquo is a neat shorthand for the eight major documents of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) For some Vatican II over half a century ago is when things in the Catholic Church

went wrong For others who experienced the Council as young adults it is the time when things began significantly to improve

The pre-conciliar world of Latin chant incense and facing East fish on Fridays indulgences and Penance and crowded churches on holy days of obligations is a world for which many long not so much perhaps those old enough to remember it as it was but those whose view of that world is romantic and roseate These two ways of seeing the change brought about by Pope St John XXIIIrsquos aggiornamento (bringing up to date) the conservative and the progressive lie behind the culture wars conducted nowadays not without rancour on social media Both viewpoints pray in aid the documents of the Council and we are blessed by the careful eirenicism of Fr Aidan Nicholsrsquo guide to the eight main documents more minor texts are noted as we make our way through this Cookrsquos Tour Usefully he tells us about the preparatory papers and something of the politics surrounding them his familiarity with the work of the theologians who were the periti (experts) advising the Council alerts us and informs us and puts things into perspective for us

For many Vatican II was all about moving from Latin to English from choirs and organs to music groups from watching on to taking part This is not only to misunderstand the first of the eight principal documents Sacrosanctum Concilium (December 1963) but to take insufficient notice of the others After Lumen Gentium (the vocation of the lsquoPeople of Godrsquo to be the lsquoLight to lighten the Gentilesrsquo) nothing will ever be the same again The Decrees on the Eastern Catholic Churches and on Ecumenism paved the way for improved relations with Christians worldwide The other documents - Nostra aetate (the Decree on other faiths) the Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation (Dei Verbum the Declaration on Religious

Freedom and Gaudium et spes (the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World) all of these are at least as far-reaching as the Constitution on the Liturgy

The conclusion to this very short book is itself only a few lines long It includes (p 163) this neat summary

The real council washelliptheologically rooted in previous ages of the Church It was a council where the conciliar minority ndash guarded prudent and concerned for explicit continuity at all points with the preceding tradition ndash played a beneficial

role in steadying the conciliar majority ndash enthused by the movements of biblical patristic and liturgical ressourcenent and a desire to reach out to the world of the (then) present dayrsquo

That phrase lsquothe (then) present dayrsquo reminds us of some of the reservations that have been made about Gaudium et spes Nichols quotes the Australian lay theologian Tracey Rowland who warns us that without ldquothe truth that only in the mystery of the incarnate Word does the mystery of man take on lightrdquo (article 22) this already dated Constitution becomes a charter for secular modernity More generally however the proceedings of an Ecumenical Council take years ndash if not generations ndash to process and assimilate We are doing that now not least those of us for whom some of the changes to the liturgical celebration after Vatican II went way beyond what was envisaged by the Council Fathers and how the text of Sacrosanctum Consilium actually reads

Conciliar Octet Aidan Nichols OPIgnatius Press San Francisco 2019

pound1399 180 pages


In search of the Sacred Image by Aidan NicholsBook review by Fr David Butler

HOW dOEs the artist portray the sacred in visible form how does he (or less commonly she) facilitate Christian corporate worship and personal piety by this means These are the questions posed by this

book The search is clearly the authorrsquos own but the book is also an account of that search by the artists and art historians of the 19th and early 20th centuries a period with whose intellectual history Fr Aidan Nichols is very familiar By a careful reading of the book the search or at least an appreciation of the search might become the readerrsquos own

The search begins with the 19th century re-discovery of the merits of the sacred art of the medieval period both of the byzantine-slavic iconography of the Christian east and the 12th and 13th century art of the Latin west and of the links between them Indeed the story never loses sight of these traditions which serve as reference points for the search and as base-lines for more recent developments

The value of these traditional art forms lies in their ability to portray the events of salvation history in ways for example by symbolism that convey the dogmatic truths these events reveal as well as in conveying a contemplative dimension through their static presentation

Renaissance art with its (often idealised) naturalism and greater portrayal of movement forms an alternative pole as the story progresses either as something to be avoided in attempting the sacred image or as something to be combined with it in some way That at least is a brief indication of some of the themes treated for further details read the book

The scope is wide The sacred art of Russia Greece Italy France Flanders and Germany are included and alongside painting and mural there are mosaic stained glass architecture and even liturgical vessels Of course there is too a chapter on the sacred art of 19th century England The Pre-Raphaelites are discussed as are Pugin and Hunt and also we might note the still uncompleted mosaic decoration of Westminster Cathedral Even our own London church of the Assumption Warwick Street gets a mention on account of the mosaic which decorates the apse

As you would expect from Fr Nichols this is a scholarly book with plentiful references notes and bibliography The style is both erudite and easy a pleasing combination It is not a lsquolight readrsquo but any effort in following the detail and the argument is well rewarded The reader is drawn towards an appreciation of what sacred art really is and how it does or does not achieve its objects On the way some of the greatest artists and craftsmen of the past two centuries and their work are reviewed

One obvious feature of this book on the visual arts is the lack of any illustrations though I accept that including a sufficient number of items to illustrate the text adequately would turn it into a different kind of book (and a much pricier one) Of course I discovered belatedly that Google could help But the real point is that while reading it I wanted to lsquosee for myself rsquo I wanted to understand better I wanted ndash and want ndash to explore the theme further That is the measure of the bookrsquos success for this particular reviewer

All of which leaves the tantalising questions where have we got to and where do we go from here For Fr Nichols the search appears to run pretty much into the sands in the 1950s and subsequently with little produced which seems to flow from the promise from earlier years of a sacred art which is developed from the tradition and capable of truly serving the liturgical and spiritual needs of (catholic) Christians His penultimate comment is lsquoIt was not to bersquo But all is not lost for he adds lsquoBut it might be yetrsquo Well Amen to that

Published by GracewingISBN978 085244 926 4 260 pages pound1599

is the monthly review of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham

RTALTHE PMay 2020 Volume 10 Issue 113

ContentsPage 3 Portal Comment ndash Will Burton reflects

Page 4 Innocent man unjustly imprisoned ndash Joanna Bogle

Page 5 Ideas good bad and indifferent ndash Snapdragon

Page 6 Catechism The Mass ndash Fr Matthew Pittam

Page 7 Father Geoffrey Kirk 1945-2020 RIP ndash Obituary by Mgr John Broadhurst

Page 9 Living alone with isolation ndash Basil Youdell

Page 10 When this is all over ndash Revd Dr Stephen Morgan

Page 11 Our window on the CofE ndash The Revd Paul Benfield

Page 12 What is a Vicar General ndash Fr David Waller

Page 13 Farewell to a friend ndash The Editors

Page 14 Finding us at prayer ndash in England Scotland and Wales

Page 17 Our Calling amp Our Mission with ZOOM ndash The Editors

Page 18 School life under lockdown ndash John Crane

Page 19 Letter to the Editor

Page 20 Aid to the Church in Needx ndash John Newton and Maria Lozano

Page 22 Vocations ndash Fr Michael Halsall

Page 23 Book Review ndash Mgr Andrew Burnham

Page 24 Book Review ndash Fr David Butler

RTALTHE P Registered Address 56 Woodlands Farm Road Birmingham B24 0PG wwwportalmagcouk

Co-Editors Ronald Crane Jackie Ottaway - editorsportalmagcouk Advisors Fr Len Black Fr Aidan Nichols OP Fr Mark Woodruff Editorial Board David Chapman Fr Neil Chatfield Gill James Cyril Wood Advertising advertsportalmagcouk

The views expressed in The PorTal are not necessarily those of the Editors or the Ordinariate

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THE P R TAL · THE P RTAL May 2020 Page 3 Female deacons Will Burton asks why the Holy Father has appointed a second commission On THE 8th April, the Vatican Press Office issued a