Great News for Anglicans & Episcopalians Today!

Today, January 1, the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter was officially established in the USA. Thanks be to God and the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, the pope of unity, for this grace.

The Personal Ordinariate is for those of the Anglican heritage entering full communion with the Catholic Church while maintaining distinctive elements of their theological, spiritual, and liturgical patrimony such as the beautiful and glorious Book of Common Prayer. The Rev. Jeffrey N. Steenson has been appointed by the Pope as the first Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter on January 1, 2012.

The website of the Ordinariate can be found here:http://usordinariate.org/

A very appropriate quote for this momentous day can was found on their website and is from one of the Fathers of the Church, St. Irenaeus of Lyon in the later 2nd century: “It is necessary that all churches be in accord with this church [Rome] on account of her more excellent apostolic foundations” (Against Heresies 3.3.2).