Here's a new opportunity for the Ordinariate that seems so perfectly fitting: the Marist order priests who have been at the Catholic shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham (remember that there are two, one Anglican and one Catholic) are leaving. Who better to take over than the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham? Monsignor Andrew Burnham made the proposal in a post on The Tablet blog, mentioning that it would benefit both the shrine and the Ordinariate:
The Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, in these early years, is looked upon with nervousness from outside. Fellow Catholics have not all learnt yet that Ordinariate Catholics are no more different from them than Catholics of a different diocese. Some Anglicans remain to be convinced that the ordinariate is the new ecumenical instrument for all they most value to be brought into the full communion of the Catholic Church. The ordinariate is intrinsically a matter of congregations and groups, rather than individual priests, and it is not immediately obvious how a group would generate itself in the right part of East Anglia to focus day-by-day on Walsingham. There are plenty of reasons, therefore, why the vision might grow pale and become a dream. And yet there is certainly a window of opportunity and, as devotees of the Blessed Mother, Our Lady of Walsingham, all attest, “He that is mighty” has magnified her. All generations shall call her blessed. This then is a time for imagination and boldness and for love to conquer fear.
The Feast of Our Lady of Walsingham is next week on September 24!
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