Wave of the Future Now
The National Catholic Register has the following article:
Passion to Evangelize Drives New Ordinariate Catholic Communities
Young Catholics, invigorated by the ordinariate’s English-Catholic expressions of faith, are actively ‘church-planting’ and inviting people into their fledgling Catholic communities.
(T)here is something about the way the faith was lived, celebrated and expressed in an English context that is actually an enrichment for the whole Church,” (Bishop Lopes) said.
“It is something true, it is something good, and it is something beautiful.”
He also added the ordinariate serves the mutual enrichment of the Church in a pastoral sense. Ordinariate communities, he said, have “a sense of parish as family” by not only worshipping at Mass together, but spending extensive time with each other in fellowship over coffee hour.
“It is kind of expected that you stick around after Mass; no ducking out the side aisle,” he said.
The Catholic Church today, he said, has to figure out how to form “intentional communities” within a large parish setting, and the ordinariate helps contribute to that discussion.
Bishop Steven Lopes is the Bishop-Ordinary for the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter.
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