There seems to be surprise about today's news.
Well, I did try to drop massive hints on December 18 for anybody who cared to read between the lines and didn't need everything spelt out as for toddlers.
The Five Bishops are very considerable men who have tirelessly, selflessly, done an impossible job, tending struggling oases in a parched and hopeless desert. God bless them and reward them.
It seems from this apparent eyewitness account that three former Anglican Bishops (Burnham, Newton, Broadhusrst), two of them together with their wives, were received into the Catholic Church in Westminster Abbey by Bishop Alan Hopes early this afternoon.
ReplyDeleteAt the same time three former Anglican Nuns from Walsingham were also received. This is significant, I think, because it means that the religious life will be present in the Ordinariate from the very beginning.
Another eye-witness account is here:
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I presume that +Mercer and the other two retired bishops will be "done" on another occasion.
Must remember to buy the papers tomorrow.
The quiet way this was done reminds me of the consecration of Matthew Parker in the chapel of Lambeth Palace.
ReplyDeleteAnd look how that "blossomed" and spread.
Re the "Flying Dutchman's" comment, it would have been most amusing had the ex-Anglicans been received into the Roman Catholic church in Westminster Abbey! Perhaps HM The Queen has offered it to the Ordinariate!!
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