...a celebration to mark the 5th birthday of The Portal, magazine of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. Speeches, fizz, a buffet, a cake cut, and lots of good talk in good company.
Keynote issues for the Ordinariate are ecumenism and evangelisation. There is a lot of energy and goodwill here, and a sense of zeal for spreading the Christian message in a Britain that sorely needs it. Our Bishops should give some churches into the care of the Ordinariate, especially as there are some fine Ordinariate priests aching to run parishes.
I had some photographs to deliver to the editor of OREMUS, the Westminster Cathedral magazine, in which I write each month, so after the Portal party finished, I made my way there in the rainy dusk. The Cathedral looks simply magnificent with great glittering Christmas trees framing the chancel, and a superb Nativity scene set up in a side-chapel. The Christ-child holds his arms wide in blessing and welcome, St Joseph stands guard reverently with a lantern, and the Wise Men have just arrived complete with a camel...it's well worth a special visit if you are in London over the next days...
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