The Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham is celebrating the first anniversary of its foundation with Evensong and Benediction at St James's, Spanish Place, next Sunday 15 January at 5pm. The Ordinary, Mgr Keith Newton will be the celebrant.
I love the idea of Evensong and Benediction, combining the best of the Anglican patrimony with the quintessentially Catholic service of adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. I regret that I will not be able to be there as I have my own evening Mass in the parish, but I would very much like to host a celebration of Evensong and Benediction at Blackfen some time.
It would be particularly good to have the psalms sung according to the beautiful four part settings that I became familiar with many years ago at various chapels in Oxford. They could be a part of "mutual enrichment" if Catholic choirs singing Mass in English were to use them for the psalm at Mass, as used to happen at St Aloysius when I was in the choir there.
UPDATE: Also sung Evensong and Benediction at The Chapel of St. John Fisher, Guildhall Street, Cambridge on Sunday 22 January, 6pm. This is catching on ...
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Total agreement with you, Father. Anglican chant can be quite beautiful, and I love a visit to provincial cathedral cities where one's host allow attendance at evensong (rarer among anglican friends than Catholic!)
Mutual enrichment! The Ordinariate has much to give us.
We sing the responsorial psalm to the Anglican style 4 part arrangement every Sunday at the main Mass at St Joseph,New Malden. Here the ordinary of the Mass is sung in Latin, the hymns are sung to 4 part harmonies with descant where needed and a motet is sung after Communion. We have just started singing the Latin Introits as well... The choir is no way professional (I sing in it !)
Ah New Malden, a model of the Benedictine reform! The choir does not need to be professional, just committed to the best that we can offer the Lord.
RIP C of E's Canon David Diamond!
If he were still alive I'm sure Father Diamond of Deptford would have been there too.
Our Lady of Walsingham pray for us!
PAPA VERO ORA PRO NOBIS!
@Father Finigan
I have forwarded an 'Ordinariate anniversary celebration' email copy comment that was sent to me by 'A Reluctant Sinner' aka Dylan Parry, to St Paul's C of E Deptford where the much loved Father Diamond is buried. Father Paul Butler http://www.channel4.com/programmes/4thoughttv/episode-guide/series-2/episode-119 is the man in charge there now.
Our Lady of Walsingham pray for us!
PAPA VERO ORA PRO NOBIS!
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