Reception Novena - Day 5

Members of the East Kent Ordinariate Group look forward eagerly to the Mass of Reception into the Fullness of Communion in the Catholic Church on the 19^th of April, Tuesday  in Holy Week.   As that day draws nearer, we offer a Novena of Prayer.

Day 5 of the Novena of Prayer

On whose dear arms, so widely flung,
The weight of this world’s ransom hung,
the price of humankind to pay,
and spoil the spoiler of his prey.

We pray for each other, for grace to take up our cross once again and follow Christ,
the Way the Truth and the Life.

Be favourable to thy people, O Lord, we beseech thee:
And grant that they, eschewing those things which displease thee,
may be the more abundantly filled with the delights of thy commandments;
Through Jesus Christ our Lord,
who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost
ever one God, world without end.   Amen.

Our Father . . .   Hail Mary . . .   Glory be . . .

Our Lady of Walsingham, pray for us.   Blessed John Henry Newman, pray for us.

Reception Novena - Day 4

Members of the East Kent Ordinariate Group look forward eagerly to the Mass of Reception into the Fullness of Communion in the Catholic Church on the 19^th of April, Tuesday  in Holy Week.   As that day draws nearer, we offer a Novena of Prayer.

Day 4 of the Novena of Prayer

O tree of beauty, tree of light!
O tree with royal purple dight!
Elect on whose triumphal breast
Those holy limbs should find their rest.

We pray for God’s blessing upon Fr. Ivan Dawson and the people of St. John’s Mongeham and for all priests and parishes welcoming Ordinariate Groups.

Assist us mercifully, Almighty God, in these our supplications:
And grant that we, to whom thou hast given a full assurance of hope in thy good ness,
may receive the fruit of thy wonted loving-kindness;
Through Jesus Christ our Lord,
who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost
ever one God, world without end.   Amen.

Our Father . . .   Hail Mary . . .   Glory be . . .

Our Lady of Walsingham, pray for us.   Blessed John Henry Newman, pray for us.

Reception Novena - Day 3

Members of the East Kent Ordinariate Group look forward eagerly to the Mass of Reception into the Fullness of Communion in the Catholic Church on the 19^th of April, Tuesday  in Holy Week.   As that day draws nearer, we offer a Novena of Prayer.

Day 3 of the Novena of Prayer

Fulfilled is all that David told
In true prophetic song of old,
Amidst the nations, God, saith he,
Hath reigned and triumphed from the tree.

We pray for God’s blessing upon our Ordinariate Group, the Sevenoaks, Folkestone, Beckenham, Southwark and Tunbridge Groups in the Archdiocese of Southwark and all the Groups around our country.

We beseech thee, O Lord, give us perseverance in humble service according to thy will:
That in our day the people that serveth thee may increase both in number and in merit;
Through Jesus Christ our Lord,
who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost
ever one God, world without end.   Amen.

Our Father . . .   Hail Mary . . .   Glory be . . .

Our Lady of Walsingham, pray for us.   Blessed John Henry Newman, pray for us.

Reception Novena - Day 2

Members of the East Kent Ordinariate Group look forward eagerly to the Mass of Reception into the Fullness of Communion in the Catholic Church on the 19^th of April, Tuesday  in Holy Week.   As that day draws nearer, we offer a Novena of Prayer.

Day 2 of the Novena of Prayer

Where deep for us the spear was dyed,
Life's torrent rushing from his side,
to wash us in that precious flood,
Where mingled water flowed, and blood.

We pray for God’s blessing upon the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham and especially for the Ordinary,  Mgr Keith Newton.

Grant unto thy people, we beseech thee, O Lord,
health of mind and body:
That cleaving to good works,
they may ever deserve to be defended by thy mighty protection;
Through Jesus Christ our Lord,
who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost
ever one God, world without end.   Amen.

Our Father . . .   Hail Mary . . .   Glory be . . .

Our Lady of Walsingham, pray for us.   Blessed John Henry Newman, pray for us.

Reception Novena - Day 1

Members of the East Kent Ordinariate Group look forward eagerly to the Mass of Reception into the Fullness of Communion in the Catholic Church on the 19^th of April, Tuesday  in Holy Week.   As that day draws nearer, we offer a Novena of Prayer.

Day 1 of the Novena of Prayer

The royal banners forward go,
The cross shines forth in mystic glow;
Where he in flesh, our flesh who made,
Our sentence bore, our ransom paid.

We pray for the Holy Father, Pope Benedict, giving thanks to God for the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus

We beseech thee, Almighty God, mercifully to look upon thy people:
That by thy great goodness they may be governed and preserved evermore, both in body and soul;
Through Jesus Christ our Lord,
who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost
ever one God, world without end.   Amen.

Our Father . . .   Hail Mary . . .   Glory be . . .

Our Lady of Walsingham, pray for us.   Blessed John Henry Newman, pray for us.

 

Lent I - Sunday 13th March

The first Sunday of Lent saw the start of the East Kent Ordinariate Group’s formal catechesis programme.   We were each given a copy of the Participant’s book for the Evangelium programme.   These books are the gift of the parishioners here at St. John’s  -  a tangible sign of their warm and generous welcome.   As the Group met after Mass, Fr. Dawson led us in prayer and in talking through the experience of coming to St. John’s and the journey ahead, through Lent, to the fullness of communion in the Catholic Church.   And of course there was a Group photo!

Ash Wednesday - The Journey into Lent

The evening Mass of Ash Wednesday at St. John’s Mongeham saw the formal beginning of the Ordinariate in East Kent.

After the Collect and before the Readings, members of the Ordinariate Group each brought their application document forward to be solemnly presented on the Altar;  each was greeted warmly by the parish priest, Fr. Dawson CSsR.   Then together the community turned to the Lord, as he spoke to us in the Sacred Scriptures.

In his homily, Fr. Dawson reminded us of the three strands of a holy Lent:  prayer, works of charity and abstinence.  All things come from God;  those good things should be shared equitably, so that all have food for the journey.

We were urged to be of good courage.   When we falter, feel weary or feel forgotten, we must needs turn to Christ, and so ‘run with perseverance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross’.