34: St Brendan Homecoming Festival 2025
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The St Brendan Homecoming Festival 2025 was celebrated in Birnie Kirk on Saturday 5th July and began with a procession around the ancient Birnie Mound followed by Holy Mass according to Divine Worship - the homily was given by The Very Revd Dom Simon Pitkowski OSB, Prior Administrator of Pluscarden Abbey
Christmas and Epiphany in Birnie Kirk (10 min 30 sec)
The Ordinariate in the North of Scotland held a service of Nine Lessons and Carols at 3pm on Sunday 29th December in a packed Birnie Kirk near Elgin. This was followed on Saturday 4th January 2025 by a celebration of Holy Mass anticipating the Epiphany of the Lord with the blessing and distribution of Epiphany Chalk.
Advent Carols at Birnie (1 min 21 sec)
Birnie Kirk near Elgin, where Christian worship has continued for almost 900 years since the church was built no later that 1140, was closed for worship by the Church of Scotland in November 2023. The Ordinariate was approached and the result has been an injection of new life into worship at Birnie. Evening Prayer, according to the Ordinariate use, is celebrated every Wednesday evening, and an Ordinariate Mass is celebrated on the first Saturday of each month. This Advent Carol Service was held on the first Wednesday of Advent when 110 people squeezed into the church for what was a memorable occasion indeed. The church was 'lit' by around 60 'real' candles and the people held small LED 'candles' and the effect was amazing.
The Homecoming: St Brendan the Navigator returns to Birnie Kirk (6 min 20 sec)
On Saturday 3rd August 2024 a carving by Philip Chatfield from a single block of golden coloured stone quarried near Hopeman on the coast north of Elgin, of Saint Brendan the Navigator with two monks on a voyage in an open sailing boat, made for the Ordinariate in Scotland and to be positioned on the south wall within Birnie Kirk, the oldest church in Scotland continuously used for Christian worship for almost 900 years, was carried in procession into the church. Worship continues now through an ecumenical group under the care of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland with Evening Prayer every Wednesday at 7pm and Holy Mass according to the Ordinariate use offered on the first Saturday of each month at 12 noon.
The Story of the Ordinariate Tartan (5 min 34 sec)
The story behind The Ordinariate Tartan, created as a gift from the Ordinariate in Scotland to the three Ordinariates around the world..
North Tonight on Scottish Television in April 2021 (2 min 36 sec)
In June 2021 The Oratory of St Joseph was announced as one of four finalists in the Lockdown category of the Shed of the Year competition and Nicola Mcalley of Scottish Television's North Tonight came to meet the man described by every newspaper in the UK as 'Father Shed'.
The Oratory of St Joseph, Inverness, in 2020 (4 min 28 sec)
A short video tour of The Oratory of St Joseph in 2020: From the beginning of March 2020, during lock-down, Fr Len made Mass available on-line every day for up to 100 people and was nominated for 'Shed of the Year' - this is visit to the Oratory of St Joseph in Fr Len's garden. This short video takes you on a guided tour.
Archbishop Joseph Augustine Di Noia OP on Divine Worship (23 min 20 sec)
The paper given by Archbishop Joseph Augustine Di Noia OP on Divine Worship, given at the Ordinariate Festival on Saturday 19th September 2015 in Westminster Cathedral Hall, London
Called to be Holy (14 min 7 sec)
The aim of this initiative from the Ordinariate in May 2015 was to contribute to the spiritual renewal of Catholic life by drawing on and sharing widely the rich treasures of English spiritual writers from the author of the Cloud of Unknowing to Michael Ramsey
Called to be One (14 min 50 sec)
An exploration day in 2014 to explore in the Ordinariate's vision for truth and unity in communion with the successor of Peter.
The Ordinariate's Second Anniversary (14 min 10 sec)
Interview with Monsignor Keith Newton in January 2013 on the Second Anniversary of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham
Heirs of Newman's 'Oxford Movement' (4 min 5 sec)
February 2012: Catholic News Service report on the first Ordinariate Pilgrimage to Rome where Anglican chant reverberated through St Peter's Basilica as pilgrims from the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham as they gathered to celebrate Mass and their 'homecoming' to the Catholic Church
Ordinariate Pilgrimage to Rome for former Anglicans (2 min 55 sec)
February 2012: ROME REPORTS TV News Agency report on the first Ordinariate Pilgrimage to Rome
BBC News report on the three former Anglican bishops (6 min 29 sec)
15th January 2011: BBC news report on the ordination three of former Anglican bishops and the formation of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Westminster Cathedral, London
Sky News: Three ex-Anglican bishops ordained Catholic priests (6 min 2 sec)
15th January 2011: Ruth Gledhill in a Sky News report that three former Anglican bishops have been ordained Roman Catholic priests
Fr John Broadhurst on the Anglican Ordinariate (7 min 51 sec)
January 2011: Ruth Gledhill of The Times talking with Bishop John Broadhurst - now Monsignor John Broadhurst - towards the end of 2010, while he was still Bishop of Fulham, about the new Anglican Ordinariate which is about to be formed ... including the Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Westminster and Bishop Alan Hopes (himself a convert), who received the founding members of the Ordinariate into the Catholic Church
Five Anglican bishops resign from the Church of England (59 sec)
8th November 2010: Rome Reports that five Anglican bishops have announced their resignation from the Church of England with the intention to set up an Ordinariate in the UK
Announcement of Personal Ordinariates for Anglicans (2 min 10 sec)
20th October 2010: Rome Reports on the announcement by Pope Benedict XVI on the creation of a system that will allow Anglican parishes or entire dioceses to be received in the Catholic Church based on Personal Ordinariates similar to Military Ordinariates or Catholic churches of Oriental Rite.
Pope Benedict XVI publishes law for Anglicans to become Catholics (2 min 9 sec)
10th November 2009: Pope Benedict XVI signs the Canon Law Anglicanorum coetibis that would create Personal Ordinariates which would pave the way for groups of Anglicans and their pastors to become Catholics.
