Photo credit: Archdiocese of Southwark
The ordination season is now well underway. Four of the students who suffered my lectures a couple of years ago have been ordained this year: Fr Gerard Hatton was ordained for Arundel and Brighton a few months ago: Fr John Chandler for Portsmouth, Fr David King for Arundel and Brighton, and Fr Jonathon Routh for Southwark were all ordained in recent weeks. The fifth, Rev Daniel Kelly, will be ordained a priest for the Diocese of Brentwood in September.
Ordinations tend to happen on Saturdays: this makes it difficult for me to get to most of them, so I was glad to be able to get down to Our Lady, Help of Christians the other week for Fr Routh's ordination. The Archbishop announced that he had been appointed to the parish of St Joseph's, New Malden, where the parish priest is Fr Peter Edwards, one of the founding members of the British Province of the Confraternity of Catholic Clergy.
An ordination is always an occasion for brother priests to rejoice, especially if the candidate is for their own diocese. Playing even a small part in the formation of priests gives an extra dimension to the occasion: I was glad to be able to receive Fr Chandler's blessing as well, since he came to concelebrate at the ordination of his classmate.
The photo above shows an important part of the ordination rite, the "tradition of the instruments." There are more photos at the RCSouthwark flickr set and at Mulier Fortis.
11 comments:
@ Father Finigan
Your young men are in my prayers.
Yesterday my son Michael attended the graduation ceremony at Westminster Cathedral for the students of St Mary's University College, Twickenham. Last year he was picking up his first class honours degree, this year he was a junior member of staff aka the graduate adviser (while he studies for his Masters).
Our Lady of the Rosary ( http://the-hermeneutic-of-continuity.blogspot.com/2011/05/visit-to-tomb-of-blessed-john-paul-ii.html ) pray for us!
PAPA VERO ORA PRO NOBIS!
That is great news about Michael. I pray for his continued success in his career.
@Father Finigan
Thank you for your kind words and prayers Father Tim, I have forwarded them to Michael, Rose, Joseph,& Siobhan too.
Father Gerard Devlin the Chaplain of St Mary's University College, Twickenham told me he is very pleased with Michael's progress in every sense.
Dylan Parry aka The Reluctant Sinner can confirm that somebody abused Father Devlin on Dylan's Blog, and that we combined our skills to remove the odious attempt to libel Father Gerry.
I know what it's like to have a wicked psychological knife in the back, that is then twisted by a combination of truth, half truth, and downright lies. In this instance I have used my JUSTICE NOT VENGEANCE FOCUS 1991-2011 experience obtained INSIDE 'n' OUT to defend Father Gerry and the priesthood, and I would hope that others will follow Dylan Parry's brave Guild of Catholic bloggers lead in supporting the case for the defence OF PRIESTS, and other religious.
"UNDER ATTACK WE FIGHT BACK" :-)
Our Lady of the Rosary ( http://the-hermeneutic-of-continuity.blogspot.com/2011/05/visit-to-tomb-of-blessed-john-paul-ii.html ) pray for us!
PAPA VERO ORA PRO NOBIS!
Fr, is that a maniple I spy on the new priest's left arm?
The ordination season is also in full swing for the permanent diaconate.
Please remember them all, including Southwark's Mathew Manoharan and Jolyon Vickers - two fine men who will undoubtedly be a great blessing to the Church.
Chatto - do you know, I think it is ;-)
Dear Father,
I'm about to move to Glasgow with my family. Do you or your readers know of any Latin (EF or NO in Latin) Mass in Glasgow. I understand that there hasn't been much provision of the Latin in Glasgow but thought there might be places that were non-diocesan, like the Holy Name in Manchester, which offered it. Many thanks,
Ambrose
Gillineau - There was a regular Latin sung OF Mass in Glasgow at St Patrick's Anderstown but it is not listed at the parish website. Perhaps a phone call to the chancery office might be a good idea.
For the EF, it is probably best to be in contact with Una Voce Scotland. Unfortunately they don't have any contact details on the website but perhaps another commenter can put you in touch.
Thank you for your advice. I contacted the parish but they discontinued the NO Latin Mass 18 months ago. There is only one parish in the whole of the Glasgow diocese (Catholic population 224,344) that does the EF Mass. The dictionary definition of "pastoral zeal and a spirit of generous welcome", I think you'll agree.
Gilleneau
There are plenty of priests in the Atchdiocese who would like to, but they are youing and keep their heads down.For obvious reasons.
The OF Latin Mass is now at the University Chaplaincy at 4pm on Sunday (IIRC)
Welcome tae Glasga
Can anyone looking at the image on this post fail to be struck by the chaos of the scene? I find it strangely upsetting that there is so little uniformity and so little outward sign of ritual vigor.
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