What a very moving occasion Bishop Andrew's Mass was this morning. What a lot of people full of enthusiasm for the journey ahead. Especially the young people.
Perhaps most moving, at the end, when Bishop Andrew left his mitre and crosier at our Lady's feet.
Sub tuum praesidium confugimus, Sancta Dei Genetrix: nostras deprecationes ne despicias in necessitatibus, sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper, Virgo gloriosa et benedicta.
Fr John Hunwicke
was for nearly three decades at Lancing College; where he taught Latin and Greek language and literature, was Head of Theology, and Assistant Chaplain. He has served three curacies, been a Parish Priest, and Senior Research Fellow at Pusey House in Oxford. Now incardinated into the Personal Ordinariate of our Lady of Walsingham, he has his base within the Oxford Ordinariate Group. This blog now replaces the Blog Father Hunwicke's Liturgical Notes. Its main purpose is to explore, ad mentem Summi Pontificis, the possibilitiesfor mutual enrichment between three forms of the Roman Rite: the Extraordinary Form, the Ordinary Form, and the Anglican Use. I have been told that my previous blog was disliked because of some the comments on the 'thread'. I take the point. In this blog, all comments will be moderated, and anything which is even implicitly critical of the English Hierarchy or of any member of it, will not be published.
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The original once graced the high altar of the church of Sancta Maria in Ara Coeli on the Capitoline Hill. A fine copy is at the centre of the great baroque reredos at S Thomas the Martyr, Oxford.
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Just in case you're interested Father here is Tolkien's translation of the Sub tuum praesidium into Quenya:
Ortírielyanna rucimme, Aina Eruontari. Alalye nattira arcandemmar sangiessemman, ono alye eterúna me illume ilya raxellor, alcarin Vénde ar manaquenta. Násie.
It was a wonderful and poignant occasion. Following Patricius, I was reminded of Galadriel's words to the travellers regarding her own life- "Together... we have fought the long defeat." A good epitaph on the Catholic movement in the Church of England. I trust you will pray, Father, that like Galadriel I may be received back after disobedient self-exile.
Nai hiruvalye Valimar!
A beautiful and moving gesture, Father!
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