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On March 16, 2021, a Votive Mass of the Five Holy Wounds in the Ordinariate Form of the Roman Rite, was celebrated at Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans, Louisiana. Father Aaron Williams of the Diocese of Jackson, Mississippi, was the celebrant. Father Sal Istre of the Diocese of Lafayette, Louisiana, served as the deacon. It was my privilege, as a Transitional Deacon of the Diocese of Alexandria, Louisiana, to serve as subdeacon for this solemn occasion.

The Anglicanorum Coetibus Society’s latest podcast features Msgr. Timothy Perkins, whom Pope Francis recently named Chaplain of His Holiness, and played a key role in the development of the North American edition of Divine Worship: Daily Office.

Newman House Press is once again taking pre-orders for the second printing of Divine Worship: Daily Office, the form of the divine office for North America’s Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, as the ACS can now confirm.

(Houston, Texas) It is my great pleasure to share with you the news that our Holy Father Pope Francis, has bestowed an honor on one of our priests, Father Timothy P. Perkins, naming him a Chaplain of His Holiness with the title of Monsignor!

This year’s national March for Life in Washington, D.C. is going virtual, and as a result the annual Ordinariate Mass before the March is now cancelled for 2021. Instead, Catholics in the Ordinariate are being invited to join virtually a Sanctity of Life Mass on Jan. 22nd instead, the 48th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion in the U.S.

In 2018, Edel Lukens and her husband, a convert, found a new spiritual home in the Bridgeport area at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, a parish in the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter. After requesting that Fr. Ousley allow their local Legion of Mary Praesidium, based in Norristown, to run a Patricians group at the parish, the priest enthusiastically agreed, serving as its spiritual director (a monthly discussion group meant to get Catholics comfortable talking about their faith).

Divine Worship: Daily Office has already sold out of the North American edition’s first print run, and a second print run is already in the works to meet the high pre-order demand before the Office is publicly listed for sale by Newman House Press. The initial response alone shows the Ordinariate’s parish communities and members have signaled a strong resonance with Bishop Steven Lopes’s vision that the Daily Offices should be a “a regular feature of Ordinariate life.”

Twelfth Sunday After Trinity A.D. 2020 in the Ordinariate Form of the Roman Rite from St. Mary the Virgin Catholic Church in Arlington, Texas.

Vatican City, Dec 8, 2020 / 04:08 am MT (CNA).- Pope Francis announced a Year of St. Joseph Tuesday in honor of the 150th anniversary of the saint’s proclamation as patron of the Universal Church.

Join Sister Thomas Aquinas and Sister Amata Veritas, both raised Catholic in the Roman Rite, share their experience in a relatively new and quite unique apostolate, working with the Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter.

MORE STOCK COMING 19th NOVEMBER 2020. A photo reduction of Divine Worship: The Missal released following the landmark decision by Pope Benedict XVI to open the doors of the Catholic Church to Christians of Anglican Patrimony who wished to continue to worship using the forms and words of the Book of Common Prayer.

In response to heavenly direction and the Grace of God, our family acquired the old Mundare Hospital in 2015 (it had more recently been the convent of the Sister Servants of Mary Immaculate). We established a Catholic cultural centre of sorts, an apostolate operated completely on a donation basis

Choral Evensong for the Patronal Feast of The Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham

The Fourteenth Sunday After Trinity with the consecration of the High Altar by Bishop Lopes. From Our Lady of the Atonement in San Antonio, Texas.

Chorus Angelorum will continue its 2020-21 Season beginning 27 September 2020. Offering Choral Evensong services hosted by The Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham in Houston, Texas. Please join them at olwcatholic.org, facebook.com/angelorum.chorus/, or in person.

Responding to requests of Ordinariate members, over the past eight weeks three Ordinariate priests have traveled to western North Carolina to offer the region’s first series of Ordinariate Form Masses.

Omaha, Nebraska: Saint Barnabas will host the relics of Saint Pio of Pietrelcina, popularly known as Padre Pio, on Saturday, September 12. The church will be open at 10:00 am for veneration of the relics and confessions. Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 am. The church will remain open the rest of the day for veneration and confessions. The day will conclude with Evensong (Vespers) and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament at 5:30 p.m. Transportation to the church is available on request on the parish's handicap-accessible bus.

Eleventh Sunday After Trinity A.D. 2020, Solemn Mass in the Ordinariate Form of the Roman Rite. From the Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham in Houston, Texas.

Tenth Sunday After Trinity A.D. 2020 in the Ordinariate Form of the Roman Rite. From the Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham in Houston, Texas.

Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary A.D. 2020. Noon Solemn Mass from the Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham in Houston, Texas.