Engels ordinariaat viert eerste verjaardag

During the sermon, Mgr Keith Newton reflected on the great joys and blessings that have come with being in full communion with Rome. He also used some words written by Bl John Henry Newman to express the sense of security that he himself now feels, despite the practical worries that still face the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. In a letter to Cardinal Herbert Vaughan’s father, Newman wrote: “I have not had any feeling whatever but one of joy and gratitude that God called me out of an insecure state into one which is sure and safe, out of the war of tongues and into the realm of peace and assurance. This is my state of mind, and I would it could be brought home to all and every one, who, in default of real arguments for remaining Anglicans, amuse themselves with dreams and fancies.”

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