Ordinariate: Another Anglican bishop answers Pope Benedict's call to unity
Ordinariate: Another Anglican bishop answers Pope Benedict's call to unity
From the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham
http://ordinariateportal.wordpress.com
January 8, 2012
Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. Left to Right: Fr Edwin Barnes, Fr Anthony Glaysher (Parish Priest of Ryde), Fr Jonathan Redvers Harris, Mgr Keith Newton, Robert Mercer, John Newbery (Sponsor) and Fr Graham Smith.]Former Anglican monk and bishop, Robert Mercer, has been received into the full communion of the Catholic Church by Monsignor Keith Newton through the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.
On Saturday 7 January, Mgr Newton celebrated Mass according to the Book of Divine Worship at the historic church of St Agatha's, Portsmouth, by kind permission of the Reverend John Maunder, who cares for the Traditional Anglican Communion faithful in that area.
Mgr Newton said, 'It is a great privilege to receive Robert into the fullness of Catholic life. He is a man of unimpeachable moral stature who, through his ministry in Africa and with the Community of the Resurrection, brings many valuable treasures of Anglican life into the Catholic Church'.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
From the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham
http://ordinariateportal.wordpress.com
January 8, 2012
Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. Left to Right: Fr Edwin Barnes, Fr Anthony Glaysher (Parish Priest of Ryde), Fr Jonathan Redvers Harris, Mgr Keith Newton, Robert Mercer, John Newbery (Sponsor) and Fr Graham Smith.]Former Anglican monk and bishop, Robert Mercer, has been received into the full communion of the Catholic Church by Monsignor Keith Newton through the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.On Saturday 7 January, Mgr Newton celebrated Mass according to the Book of Divine Worship at the historic church of St Agatha's, Portsmouth, by kind permission of the Reverend John Maunder, who cares for the Traditional Anglican Communion faithful in that area.
Mgr Newton said, 'It is a great privilege to receive Robert into the fullness of Catholic life. He is a man of unimpeachable moral stature who, through his ministry in Africa and with the Community of the Resurrection, brings many valuable treasures of Anglican life into the Catholic Church'.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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