Blue Eyed Ennis: New Anglican Ordinariate

New Anglican Ordinariate

Details of the New Anglican Ordinariate can be found here in Catholic Herald
and from here is the full text of A Statement from the General Secretary of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales

If you want to explore further commentaries there are a whole raft of them below.

Personally I think it sucks !!
More gay bashing anti-women priests we do not need !!

8 comments:

Fran said...: I can't even talk about it. It makes me feel sick, truly sick to my stomach.; 15 January 2011 at 17:24
Meredith Gould said...: With you on this one 200%!; 16 January 2011 at 04:31
Blue Eyed Ennis said...: Fran,
I feel just the same way as you; I was unsure what to post about it because of that !!
Meredith,
It's great to have your support .
Thank you both so much.
Blessings; 16 January 2011 at 17:39
Anonymous said...: Thanks for providing all of this Phil. I really want to go through it and read it all but my first impression is not good. How could they continue to stay in the dark..we must pray to the Spirit. We must pray that Wisdom breathes her holy breath on them and that they will finally 'open the windows and let the fresh air in'.
Andie; 17 January 2011 at 11:46
Blue Eyed Ennis said...: Thanks for this Andie.Since posting this yesterday the media and others have made a lot of it; some good some bad. The responses seem to follow the usual varied path of indifference, hostility to anything the churches do,despair that the church will now never change where it needs to, to some sort of triumphalism that the old order of pre Vatican II Catholicism is well on its way back. I agree with you by the way- so I'm praying for change !
Blessings; 17 January 2011 at 13:42
Mairie said...: Hi Philomena - just followed you through from Claire's site

No-one stops the Spirit Philomena - she just finds different ways and different people. Closing windows, hiding in the dark, didn't work at Pentecost - if she wants you - I always remember Edwina Gately telling how she was pursued.
Very little point in listening or taking note of the media who would only want the sensational viewpoint anyway.
I feel sad for the Anglicans being so afraid that they are happy to be enclaved into a Church they won't truly join - a bit like painting stripes on a donkey so that it can join a herd of zebra. Sad that their liturgical rites and writings are more important thatreal flesh and blood and even more sad that the Roman Catholic hierarchy is putting it self up as some sort of hero saving them from a 'very bad world'.
Well, Roman Catholic hierarchy - it's the world we live in and the world that Christ walks in and the people the Anglicans and RC 'traditionalists' are trying to get away from are the very people Christ walks with. Might help if they read scripture.
Sorry for going on Philomena - have to admit I was struck speechless for a couple of days myself.
blessings on all sisters in Christ; 17 January 2011 at 21:14
Blue Eyed Ennis said...: Thanks for visiting and your comments- most welcome too. I have spent a couple of days looking at the various viewpoints and also trying to discern the way forward for me personally.
Today I have been saddened and angered at some of the power plays, scorn and vitriol poured on people who oppose it. I agree with you that there is denial going on about what the true issues are- a lot to do with power. Also there are issues for me around those Catholic priests who have left to marry and who can't carry out their ministry who should be re-ordained and I think this is awful for them.
I like your donkey zebra analogy very much and it gave me a lift !
Yes, I agree that we need revival and all I can think of is that just like Galileo in a few hundred years the Church will publicly apologise for its errors over women in priestly ministry and for its stance on homosexuality.
Your words on the Holy Spirit are lovely and true too, but no doubt there are some who will claim as theirs these present changes are due to The Holy Spirit too!
Many thanks for your kindness and support-it means a great deal.

Blessings; 17 January 2011 at 21:58
Mairie said...: Most likely - and maybe She is trying to point out - pretty well in words of one syllable at the moment - how ridiculous all this containment and battening down hatches is.
The ministry isn't in the halls of power - it's in the work we do - and we women are priest by the Love we show not the clothes we wear. AS someone who is part of a Catholic Women's ordination group I know how hard that is to bear but being who God wants to the people God sends you has its own rewards.+; 17 January 2011 at 22:17

More from Seamus Heaney

“History says, Don't hope
On this side of the grave,
But then, once in a lifetime,
The longest-for tidal wave of justice can rise up
And hope and history rhyme.
So hope for a great sea change
On the far side of revenge
Believe in miracles....”

“The aim of poetry and the poet is finally to be of service, to ply the effort of the individual into the larger work of the community as a whole.” ―

“I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.”

and five more......

On his inspiration: 'The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis”

On which animal he'd prefer to be: "I might enjoy being an albatross, being able to glide for days and daydream for hundreds of miles along the thermals. And then being able to hang like an affliction round some people's necks."

On fame: "The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful, to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself. The prizes can’t help you at all.”

On becoming a poet: "My quest for precision and definition, while it may lead backward, is conducted in the living speech of a landscape and a language that I was born with. If you like, I began as a poet when my roots were crossed with my reading."

On authority "At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure. "

Easter Hope All Year Round

Celestial spirit that doth roll
The heart's sepulchral stone away,
Be this our resurrection day,
The singing Easter of the soul -
O gentle Master of the Wise,
Teach us to say: "I will arise." ~
Richard Le Gallienne

"The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake."
-- Basil C. Hume

Celtic Christianity may offer us a lifeline in the form of an approach to faith which is rooted in the imagination...[Celts] excelled at expressing their faith in symbols, metaphors and images, both visual and poetic.
They had the ability to invest the ordinary and commonplace with sacramental significance, to find glimpses of God’s glory throughout creation and to paint pictures in words, signs and music that acted as icons opening windows on heaven and pathways to eternity
Ian Bradley The Celtic Way

Favourite Quotes from Pope Francis

“Thanks to magnanimity, we can always look at the horizon from the position where we are. That means being able to do the little things of every day with a big heart open to God and to others. That means being able to appreciate the small things inside large horizons, those of the kingdom of God.

This offers parameters to assume a correct position for discernment, in order to hear the things of God from God’s ‘point of view.’ … However the risk in seeking and finding God in all things, then, is the willingness to explain too much, to say with human certainty and arrogance: ‘God is here.’ We will find only a god that fits our measure. The correct attitude is that of St. Augustine: seek God to find him, and find God to keep searching for God forever.”

-- Pope Francis

Carlo Caretto's Love Letter to His Church

How much I much criticise you my church and yet how much I love you !

You have made me suffer more than anyone and yet I owe you more than I owe anyone. I should like to see you destroyed and yet I need your presence.

You have given me much scandal and yet you alone have made me understand holiness. Never in the world have I seen anything more obscurantist, more compromised, more false, yet never have I touched anything more pure, more generous or more beautiful.

Countless times I have felt like slamming the door of my soul in your face – and yet, every night, I have prayed that I might die in your arms!

No, I cannot be free of you, for I am one with you, even if not completely you.
Then too – where should I go? To build another church?

But I cannot build another church without the same defects, for they are my own defects. And again, if I were to build another church, it would be my church, not Christ’s church. No, I am old enough. I know better!"

Did the Woman Say ?

Great Quotes

A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.

Sidney Sheldon

There are things you can’t reach. But
you can reach out to them, and all day long.
The wind, the bird flying away. The idea of God.
And it can keep you as busy as anything else, and happier.

Mary Oliver

“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"There is an Indian proverb or axiom that says that everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emotional, and a spiritual. Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time but, unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person."

~Rumer Godden, A House with Four Rooms, 1989

“And

"
"You can get all A's and still flunk life."

"Lost in the mystery of finding myself alive."

Walker Percy

"The day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom”

A tough life needs a tough language-and that's what poetry is. That's what literature offers- a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place.
Jeanette Winterson

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, “Thy will be done,” and those to whom God says, “All right, then, have it your way.”

- C.S. Lewis

The independent hearts of Celtic descendents everywhere still yearn for the solitary place, still rejoice in the goodness of creation, still see the Lord beside them as they walk, still see Him in the face of friend and stranger. The gospel light with its eastern fire still gleams. The truth still lingers in the heart.
Pat Robson – The Celtic Heart

People are itchy and lost and bored and quick to jump at any fix. Why is there such a vast self-help industry in this country? Why do all these selves need help?

They have been deprived of something by our psychological culture. They have been deprived of the sense that there is something else in life, some purpose that has come with them into the world."

-- James Hillman

Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government only when it deserves it.
--Mark Twain

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
--George Orwell

We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice: - we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.

― Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell

Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your own experience or convictions.
--Dag Hammarskjöld

If you want to build a ship don't herd people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

For what are we, without hope in our hearts, that someday we'll drink from God's blessed waters?"
-Bruce Springsteen

"Sometimes grace works like waterwings when you feel you are sinking."
-Anne Lamott

"A prayer may be a wordless inner longing, a sudden outpouring of love, a yearning within the soul to be for a moment united within the infinite and the good, a humbleness that needs no abasement or speech to express it, a cry in the darkness for help when all seems lost, a song, a poem, a kind deed, a reaching for beauty, or the strong, quiet inner reaffirmation of faith. A prayer in fact can be anything that is created by God that turns to God."

Paul Gallico

"God does not die when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illuminated by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason."

Dag Hammarskjold

When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren’t pessimistic, you don’t understand the data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, and you aren’t optimistic, you haven’t got a pulse. What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world.”

― Paul Hawken

The greatest religious challenge of our age is to hold together social action and spiritual disciplines. This is not just a theological necessity, dictated by the need to integrate all of life around the reality of the living God. It is a matter of sheer survival. The evils we confront are so massive, so inhuman, so impervious to appeals and dead to compassion, that those who struggle against them face the real possibility of being overwhelmed by them.”

~ Theologian Walter Wink

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours?
I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

~ Khalil Gibran

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