Monsignor Keith Newton and other members of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham pose in St. Peter's Basilica
.- Over 100 former Anglicans from the British Isles concluded a pilgrimage to Rome Feb. 24 in thanksgiving for the creation of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.
?It has been quite poignant because almost all of the people who are with me were not Catholics until Easter last year,? Monsignor Keith Newton, the head of the U.K. ordinariate told CNA on Feb. 24.
The ordinariate was established last year by Pope Benedict XVI to give Anglicans the possibility of entering into communion with the Catholic Church while still preserving their ?distinctive Anglican patrimony.?
?Now they have come to the center of Catholicism, they?ve come to the tombs of Sts. Peter and Paul to pray and to give thanks, and I think they?ve been genuinely moved by this, really,? Msgr. Newton said of his fellow pilgrims.
The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham already has 57 priests and over 1,000 members throughout England, Wales and Scotland. This Easter it will receive another 200 lay people and 20 priests into the Church...
Read the full story on the site of the Catholic News Agency.
See also this video from Catholic News Service on the Ordinariate pilgrimage.
Source: http://anglicanusenews.blogspot.com/2012/02/former-anglicans-make-thanksgiving.html
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