Edward King, Ritualist Saint

Bishop Edward King, Lincoln

I am often given to wondering how some of my favourite Anglo-Catholic "saints" would respond to the call to unity in the Church today in light of the changes being mandated in faith and morals in many parts of the Anglican Communion and the offer of reception into full communion with the See of Peter represented by Anglicanorum Coetibus.


One of the luminaries who intrigued me in  my youth, along with missionary bishops like Frank Weston and Trevor Huddleston or scholars like Eric Mascall, Austin Farrer and Dom Gregory Dix was Bishop Edward King of Lincoln. 

A man of deep prayer, scholarship and devotion to the Church as the Body of Christ, Bishop King was a model pastor devoted to the care of his people.

It is almost beyond imagining that he was caught up in law suits for such Catholic practices as placing candles on the altar, facing "eastward" (that is, toward the altar) and mixing a little water with the wine in the chalice understood as a symbol of human nature being incorporated into the Divine Nature as we are united with Christ through the Sacrament. 

Remarkably it was objected that he used the Agnus Dei ("O Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us") as a hymn just before the receiving of Holy Communion.  

Finally, he was also charged with making the sign of the Cross when blessing the congregation. 

None of these practices is controversial today, but they were then thought by some to be signs of inclination to Catholicism.  King was tried by a Church Court presided over by the Archbishop of Canterbury. His ritual practices were, of course, signs of a much deeper Catholic theology at work in the Anglican Communion of the time.

In our day these and many other Catholic practices are present in the worship of many Protestant churches but the Catholic doctrine and theology that they are meant to express is most often absent.

A statue of Bishop King in full pontificals which were rare in his day in the C of E.

Would Bishop King and others find his beliefs represented in the Ordinariate? Almost certainly he would. 

THE ORDINARIATE 'IS' ECUMENISM.

Excerpted from the website of the British Ordinariate
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An official of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith who has been closely involved with the Holy See's Ordinariate project since its conception has described the Ordinariate as "ecumenism in the front row".

Monsignor Steven Lopes, is a member of the commission charged with developing the official liturgical texts for the Ordinariates, He made the comment at a plenary session for the clergy of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham on Thursday June 19 in address. 


 
 


He told the seventy or so clergy who attended the session at St Patrick's Church, Soho Square, London: "the Ordinariate is ecumenism. It has at its heart the fundamental principle for the ecumenical movement: that the unity of faith which is at the heart of the communion of the Church can exist in diversity of expression". This message, Mgr Lopes told the clergy , "must be explained and amplified" every time the opportunity arose to do so.


Monsignor's Lopes' comments came during a wide-ranging question and answer session with the clergy at the plenary session. Among other issues raised were the question of married clergy and why they had to be treated as an anomaly in the light of Catholic tradition and practice, and how the Ordinariate laity might be reaffirmed for the courage of their spiritual journey.

The question and answer session followed a presentation from Mgr Lopes on liturgical theology, in which he concentrated on the mysteries of the Transfiguration and the Passion and how they could be used in an interpretive way in the celebration of the liturgy and the sacraments. 

He spoke of the "tremendous contribution" the Ordinariate was making to liturgy by preserving for Catholic worship rich elements of Anglican spiritual patrimony, and of the "joy and satisfaction" that came from celebrating the Mass beautifully. But he said it was important not to miss the fact, "whilst going for the glory" that the Mass was a sacrifice, with the Cross of Christ at its heart. Remembering that, he said, should help priests who had high liturgical ideals to celebrate the Mass "at those times when the circumstances for doing so might be less than ideal".


The plenary session was chaired by Monsignor Andrew Burnham, Assistant to the Ordinary. Mgr Burnham announced that the guest speaker at the next Ordinariate plenary, in October, would be the Anglican Bishop, Michael Nazir-Ali, formerly Bishop of Rochester, who would speak on global Anglicanism.


It was also announced that Mgr Jeffrey Steenson, Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter in the United States and Mgr Harry Entwistle, Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross in Australia, would visit London next year and attend the plenary session on 12 February. This will be the second time the three ordinaries have met; the first was in Rome in February this year.

OCTOBER MUSIC - ST THOMAS MORE CHURCH, Carlton at Sherbourne, Toronto

1:45 pm - SUNDAY SUNG MASS

Oct. 5
Mass setting: Sumsion, Communion Service in F
Motet: Palestrina, Ego Sum Panis Vivus

Oct. 12
Mass setting: Mozart, Spatzen Messe
Motet: Britten, Jubilate Deo

Oct 19
Mass setting: Ager, Missa Brevis No. 4
Motet: Hassler, Cantate Domino

Oct. 26 
Palestrina, Missa Brevis in F
Mass setting: Wood, Oculi Omnium

STM – BALDWIN ACADEMY October 2014 Proposed Schedule

Riverdale Farm (Park) 15 minute walk

Art Gallery of Ontario, west on Dundas

This proposed schedule will be revised according to the needs of students and availability of teachers participating in the programme, all of whom are volunteers. Please let us know your needs for tutoring and any corrections for individual teachers’ schedules. We have had offers also for instruction in Art, Art History and Latin if there is an interest. There are some blanks in the schedule, which we need to fill according to interests and availability. 

We also plan to have downtown field trips to nearby Allen Gardens, Riverdale Farm, AGO, etc.

Allen Gardens - Across the street
from STM-Baldwin AC

THURSDAY, Oct 2  
HOLY GUARDIAN ANGELS

11 AM – Mattins: White  Ps 105:1‑22  Hosea 5:8‑6:6  TD  Acts 21:27‑36
Fr. Hodgins

11:15 – Geography/ History – Mrs Rezna Ellis/ Fr. John Hodgins

12:00 – Angelus, Grace and Lunch

12:30 – Recreation

1:00 – Independent Work or Tutoring – Mr Royden Lamwatt/ Mrs Rezna Ellis

2:15 – French – Mrs Jane Hodgins

3:15 – Break

3:30 – Snack/ Auditions for Choir

4:00 – Choral Music Programme – Mrs Katharine Mahon



THURSDAY, Oct 9
BLESSED JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

11 AM – Mattins: White  Ps 131,132  Micah 3:1 8. Acts 24:1 23
Fr. Hodgins

11:15 – English Grammar – Mrs Judy Anderson

12:00 – Angelus, Grace and Lunch

12:30 – Recreation

1:00 – English Grammar/ Literature – Mrs Judy Anderson

2:00 - Break

2:15 – French – Mrs Jane Hodgins

3:15 – Break

3:30 – Snack/ Auditions for Choir

4:00 – Choral Music Programme – Mrs Katharine Mahon



THURSDAY, Oct 16 
ST MARGARET MARY ALACOQUE

11 AM – Mattins: White  Ps 18:1 20  Jonah 3:1 4:11  Acts 27:27 44 
Fr. Hodgins

11:15 – Literature

12:00 – Angelus, Grace and Lunch

12:30 – Recreation

1:00 – Math/ Science

2:00 - Break

2:15 – French – Mr Royden Lamwatt

3:15 – Break

3:30 – Snack/ Auditions for Choir

4:00 – Choral Music Programme – Mrs Katharine Mahon



THURSDAY, Oct 23
 ST JOHN OF CAPISTRANO 

11 AM – Mattins:  Ps 37:1 18  Ecclus 10:1 18  TD Rev 9:1 12
Fr. Hodgins

Fr. Hodgins

11:15 – English Grammar – Mrs Judy Anderson

12:00 – Angelus, Grace and Lunch

12:30 – Recreation

1:00 – English Grammar/ Literature - Mrs Judy Anderson

2:00 - Break

2:15 – French

3:15 – Break

3:30 – Snack/ Auditions for Choir

4:00 – Choral Music Programme – Mrs Katharine Mahon



THURSDAY, Oct 30 – FERIA

11 AM – Mattins: Green  Ps 50  Ecclus 31:12 18, 25 32:2  Ben  Rev 12:7 17
Mr Royden Lamwatt

11:15 – English Grammar – Mrs Judy Anderson

12:00 – Angelus, Grace and Lunch

12:30 – Recreation

1:00 – English Grammar/ Literature – Mrs Judy Anderson

2:00 - Break

2:15 – French – Mr Royden Lamwatt

3:15 – Break

3:30 – Snack/ Auditions for Choir

4:00 – Choral Music Programme – Mrs Katharine Mahon

OUR 'HOOD'

G = STM-BALDWIN ACADEMY     

I = ALLEN GARDENS

A = RIVERDALE PARK

H = OUR LADY OF LOURDES SCHOOL

St. Thomas More, Toronto launches Choral Music Bursary Program for Kids

STM -Baldwin Academy, Toronto was launched in September and is happy to report that we have eight choristers in the choral programme who have auditioned successfully so far. Our goal is to have at least 15 by Christmas. 

 

STM Baptismal Font and Reliquary

Katharine Mahon, our music director, is very pleased with the good voices. The children meet for choir practice after lessons at Sacré-Coeur Church in Cabbagetown, downtown Toronto. Already we have an invitation to sing at our neighbouring Holy Rosary Parish for their Christmas concert. So we are very hopeful.

We serve in an economically challenged part of the city and have one family with 14 children and so need some bursary assistance for 5 of these children. All are excellent singers.

So we are asking for donors to fund choral bursaries to help us include all children who successfully audition.

STM - Baldwin Academy is naming bursaries after people in whose memory or honour a bursary of $400 or more is made. A Mass will be offered for the intentions of the donor as well. So far, we have the commitment for one bursary:

+ The Dr. W.J. Wallace Hodgins Memorial Choral Bursary

We are very thankful for the prayers and support of many Ordinariate members and friends. Please keep praying for this very worthy music education project that will be of lifelong benefit to the children and a great spiritual joy for all of us!

Cardinal Collins visits STM

Mrs. Jane Hodgins (wife of Fr. John) holds  a little new  parishioner . . . and a future chorister posing with his Mom.

laus deo semper

Fr. John Hodgins

The Holy Father, Pope Francis, has asked for Prayer for the III Extraordinary Synod of Bishops

Extraordinary Synod of Bishops, Oct 5-21, to treat the topic: 

The Pastoral Challenges of the Family in the Context of Evangelization.  

  The Church joins in the Prayer to the Holy Family composed by Pope Francis for his special intentions. 

The recitation of the Rosary is also recommended for the duration of the Synod.

Prayer to the Holy Family 

for the Synod of Bishops

Jesus, Mary and Joseph,

In you we contemplate

The splendour of true love,

To you we turn with trust.

Holy Family of Nazareth,

Grant that our families too

May be places of communion and prayer,

Authentic schools of the Gospel

And small domestic Churches.

Holy Family of Nazareth,

May families never again

Experience violence, rejection and division;

May all who have been hurt or scandalized

Find ready comfort and healing.

Holy Family of Nazareth,

May the approaching Synod of Bishops

Make us once more mindful

Of the sacredness and inviolability of the family

And its beauty in God’s plan.

Jesus, Mary and Joseph,

Graciously hear our prayer.  Amen

O God, you never forsake the work of your hands, hear our prayer; send the Spirit of your Son to enlighten the Church as the synodical journey begins, so that contemplating the splendor of our true love which shines forth in the Holy Family of Nazareth, she might learn the freedom and obedience to respond with boldness and mercy to the challenges of today’s world.  Through Christ Our Lord.  Amen.