BLESSED JOHN HENRY NEWMAN WRITES ON BECOMING A CATHOLIC

From the time that I became a Catholic, of course I have no further history of my religious opinions to narrate. In saying this, I do not mean to say that my mind has been idle, or that I have given up thinking on theological subjects; but that I have had no variations to record, and have had no anxiety of heart whatever. I have been in perfect peace and contentment; I never have had one doubt. I was not conscious to myself, on my conversion, of any change, intellectual or moral, wrought in my mind. I was not conscious of firmer faith in the fundamental truths of Revelation, or of more self-command; I had not more fervour; but it was like coming into port after a rough sea; and my happiness on that score remains to this day without interruption.
Apologia pro Vita Sua

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THE NEXT MEETING OF THE REDRIDGE AND HAVERING ORDINARIATE EXPLORATORY GROUP IS TUESDAY 8^TH FEBRUARY AT 7.30 P.M. FOR MASS FOLLOWED BY THE EVANGELIUM COURSE.

PRAYERS FOR THE ORDINARIATE

Eternal Father, we place before you the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham under the Patronage of Blessed John Henry Newman, for Anglicans seeking full communion with the Catholic Church. We thank you for this initiative of Pope Benedict XVI., and we ask that, through the Holy Spirit, as other Ordinariates are formed, around the world, that together we may become:

families of charity, peace and the service of the poor,

centres for Christian unity and reconciliation,

communities that welcome and evangelize,

teaching the Faith in all its fullness,

celebrating the liturgy and sacraments with prayerful reverence

and maintaining a distinctive patrimony of Christian faith and culture.

Drawing on that heritage we pray:

Go before us, O Lord, in all our doings with thy most gracious favour, and further us with thy continual help; that in all our works, begun, continued and ended in thee, we may glorify thy holy Name, and finally by thy mercy obtain everlasting life; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

V/ Our Lady of Walsingham.

R/ Pray for us as we claim your motherly care.

V/ Blessed John Henry Newman

R/ Pray for the Ordinary Keith Newton, for Andrew Burnham and John Broadhurst in the task that lies before them

 Dates for future meetings are:-

Meetings at St. Augustine’s Church, Rush Green, Romford

Tuesday 08/02 Mass 7.30 p.m.

Wed 23/02 Mass 7.30 p.m.

Monday 07/03 Mass 7.30 p.m.

Wednesday 23/03  Mass 7.30 p.m.

Monday 04/04 Mass 7.30 p.m.

Tue 19/04 Mass (Holy Week) 7.30 p.m.