Preparing for Advent 2011 – part one

Most English-speaking Catholics are looking forward to when they will be able to use the new translation of the Roman Missal for the first time. Some of us are very lucky that the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham is already using that text. I was fortunate to be able to attend the Ordinariate’s Mass in Holy Rood Church, South Oxford, in the diocese of Portsmouth when I was in Oxford recently. Mgr Andrew Burnham was the celebrant and had acquired a number of the new mass booklets in Latin and in English as published by the Catholic Truth … Continue reading Preparing for Advent 2011 – part one

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The Tiber Swim Team?

I’ve a number of tshirts that proclaim all sorts of things about myself on the front or on the back. I was looking for others and came across this one. It is quite appropriate – although some of us have had the image of us paddling across the Tiber with our breviaries held above our heads, and then sitting saying the Office on the other side, with a pile of books to supply everyone with, and a pile of towels for everyone to be dried off. I wonder will John Whitehead be seen wearing one soon? Continue reading The Tiber Swim Team?

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