Ordinariate leaders from US and Australia to visit UK

The three ordinaries with their wives & Cardinal, Rome 2014

Monsignor Keith Newton, Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, will be hosting a meeting in London with fellow Ordinaries from the United States and Australia from 6-13 February. The visit by Mgr Jeffery Steenson, Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter in the US and Mgr Harry Entwistle, Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross in Australia, will mark the second time that all three ordinaries have met since the ordinariates were established. The first time was in Rome last year when they paid a joint visit to Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

On Sunday 8 February the ordinaries will be present at the 10.30am Solemn Mass at Our Lady of the Assumption, Warwick Street, and at 6pm that evening they will attend Solemn Evensong and Benediction, also at Warwick Street, which will be followed by refreshments. All are very welcome to both celebrations.

The ordinaries' visit will conclude with their attendance at the 5.30pm Mass at Westminster Cathedral on Thursday 12 February at which Mgr Keith Newton will preside with Ordinariate clergy concelebrating. Again, all members, friends and supporters of the Ordinariate are warmly encouraged to attend.

During their stay, the ordinaries will also make a brief pilgrimage to Walsingham and have a meeting with Ordinariate clergy.