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Of what sublime dignity is the office of the Christian priest who is thus privileged to act as the ambassador and the vice-regent of Christ on earth! He continues the essential ministry of Christ: he teaches the faithful with the authority of Christ, he pardons the penitent sinner with the power of Christ, he offers up again the same sacrifice of adoration and atonement which Christ offered on Calvary. No wonder that the name which spiritual writers are especially fond of applying to the priest is that of alter Christus . For the priest is and should be another Christ” ( The Faith of Millions , 255-56). - Fr. John Anthony O'Brien The Holy Ghost in the Mass forms us in prayer. The Holy Ghost in the Mass forms prayer in us. The Holy Ghost in the Mass forms us into a prayer to God. As Catholics, our personal or individual prayer must be in harmony with the Sacred Liturgy wherein we encounter the Lord Jesus Who is Himself the One Who prays the Mass. We are joined to Christ's action...

Updated: Congratulations to Fathers Armando G. Alejandro, Jr., B. Nathan Davis, and Matthew M. Hummel. Praise the Lord. I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart, in the company of the upright, in the congregation. Great are the works of the Lord, studied by all who have pleasure in them.  The Order of Service https://olwcatholic.org/documents/2020/6/June%202020%20Priestly%20Ordination-reworked.pdf

The Rev. Fr. Ed Tomlinson has the full story: http://www.tunbridgewells-ordinariate.com/blog/ A snippet: Yesterday Roy Cavey was ordained a deacon for the Ordinariate alongside three other men being ordained deacon for the Archdiocese of Southwark.

The Catholic Herald has the following article: http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/commentandblogs/2018/07/27/what-is-it-actually-like-to-be-ordained-a-priest/ What is it actually like to be ordained a priest?  by Fr Michael Ward Fr Michael Ward shares his experience on being ordained as the Ordinariate's 100th priest (Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham) [...] We’re to be ordained within the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, whose patron is . . . Blessed John Henry Newman. Our Ordinary, Mgr Keith Newton, being a married man, isn’t technically a bishop, so he has arranged for Archbishop Bernard Longley of Birmingham to ordain us on his behalf. [...] A young oratorian hastens from a doorway, carrying what the archbishop has agreed to use. Like wildfire the news runs round: it’s Newman’s crozier! My heart lifts. Newman’s crozier. How often is a precious relic actually pressed into present-day use? But here is the very shepherd’s crook N...

The official website of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter has posted a video of the ordination: https://www.facebook.com/CSPOrdinariate/videos/1747452055343634/

Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter June 29, 2018 The Feast of Sts Peter and Paul Praise and thanksgiving to the Most Holy Trinity for the gift of three new priests! Ordained to the sacred order of presbyters: Fathers Robert-Charles Bengry, Sean-Patrick Beahen and Jason McCrimmon. Pray for them! LtoR: Fr. Bengry, Bishop Lopes, Fr. Beahen and Fr. Reid, Pastor of The Fellowship of Blessed John Henry Newman, Victoria, BC, and Dean of St. John the Baptist Deanery. Frs. Bengry and Beahen are canons resident for the Ordinariate parish of St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. View photos at: https://ordinariate.net/photoalbums/june-2018-ordination http://www.calgaryordinariate.com/

https://twitter.com/UKOrdinariate/status/1013053996318232576 https://twitter.com/FrJamesBradley/status/1013110197332606976 The new priests were ordained at the Birmingham Oratory. Fr Timothy Boniwell Fr Leonard Cox Fr Jonathan Creer Fr David Hathaway Fr David Jones Fr Thomas Mason Fr David Prichard Fr Michael Ward A blurb from the official website of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, Coventry Group: EIGHT NEW PRIESTS FOR THE ORDINARIATE It was a huge joy and privilege to be with eight men as they were ordained to the Sacred Priesthood at the Oratory of St Philip Neri in Birmingham on Saturday 30th June 2018. [...]  The oratory was packed to the rafters with members of the Ordinariate - priests, deacons, religious and laypeople, as well as supporters of the Ordinariate. Archbishop Bernard Longley celebrated the Mass according to Divine Worship beautifully and Monsignor Newton preached an excellent homily. A very happy day for ...

Mass of Ordination of Father Aaron Bayles, Father Joseph Reffner, Father Matthew Whitehead and Father Ed Wills at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham on May 31, the Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary.  Praise and thanks be to God for these men ordained to the presbyterate, for offering their lives in service to God for the people of God. Te deum laudamus! Our Lady of Walsingham: pray for them. Watch the video: https://ordinariate.net/news/video-may-31-2018-ordinations

(T)he teaching that priestly ordination is to be reserved to men alone has been preserved by the constant and universal Tradition of the Church and firmly taught by the Magisterium(.)— Ordinatio Sacerdotalis - - - The zeitgeist demands conformity to the "equal means same" ideology. Jesus' choice of men only to lead His Church is a major hurdle for advocates of "women's ordination". Cardinal-Elect Ladaria Ferrer, Prefect of the CDF, instructs the ignorant. [ An excerpt from CNA/EWTN News ] http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/cdf-prefect-its-definitive-that-women-cant-be-ordained-as-priests CDF Prefect: It’s ‘Definitive’ That Women Can’t Be Ordained as Priests ‘Christ wanted to give this sacrament to the twelve apostles, all men, who, in turn, transmitted it to other men,’ Cardinal-elect Ladaria explained. Hannah Brockhaus/CNA/EWTN News VATICAN CITY —The teaching of the Catholic Church on the impossibility of ordaining women...

Door wide open! The tomb where Jesus' body once lay is empty! Alleluia! Christ is Risen! He is risen indeed! Alleluia! On the occasion that many of us converts who have journeyed home to Rome, 'swam the Tiber', 'landed on the Rock', etc., celebrate with gratitude the sublime and wholly necessary gift of the Catholic Faith, please permit, at the risk of sounding triumphalist, an invitation to those not yet Catholic, or those lapsed, to come home! The stone was rolled away — death could not contain the Lord of life! Jesus, by His life, death and resurrection, has opened to us the door to eternal salvation. Only through Him can we find eternal life. To peer into the Empty Tomb is to peer into eternity, to peer into the Light of Christ. The Holy Shroud of Turin reminds us that a great light produced the image imprinted on the cloth, a light greater than any which man could ever produce. The Light has overcome the darkness of this world. Ordinariate Light T...