I have just heard that the Holy Father has signed the Dispensation from Celibacy, which means that, Deo Volente, I shall take part in the Deaconing Service on May 26, 10.00 in Westminster Cathedral. There is no time arranged yet for the Priesting.
I am extremely grateful to the very many dear friends, both those I have met in the flesh and those with whom I have communicated over the airwaves, people all over the world, who have kept me in their prayers and assured me constantly of their affection and esteem.
Fr John Hunwicke
was for nearly three decades at Lancing College; where he taught Latin and Greek language and literature, was Head of Theology, and Assistant Chaplain. He has served three curacies, been a Parish Priest, and Senior Research Fellow at Pusey House in Oxford. Now incardinated into the Personal Ordinariate of our Lady of Walsingham, he has his base within the Oxford Ordinariate Group. This blog now replaces the Blog Father Hunwicke's Liturgical Notes. Its main purpose is to explore, ad mentem Summi Pontificis, the possibilitiesfor mutual enrichment between three forms of the Roman Rite: the Extraordinary Form, the Ordinary Form, and the Anglican Use. I have been told that my previous blog was disliked because of some the comments on the 'thread'. I take the point. In this blog, all comments will be moderated, and anything which is even implicitly critical of the English Hierarchy or of any member of it, will not be published.
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73 comments:
There is great rejoicing amongst your friends in San Antonio!
Halleluja!!!
Marvellous news. Deo gratias & congratulations!
Great news!
Dear Father,
What good news for the Ordinariates!
I am so glad to see you back on line. So many readers have missed your kind instruction.
May God Bless and Keep You Always!
Dennis
Congratulations and best wishes to you.
Congratulations. The Catholic priesthood will be greatly enriched.
Greetings from Australia,
I have been hoping and praying that you would be in the next list of names - Deo gratias! And on the feast of St Phillip Neri!
AXIOS!
Congratulations and many years!
I am very happy for you
Fr Yousuf
Congratulations!
Prorsum! Pro Deo et patria!!
Congratulations Father. and best wishes for the future
Wonderful news, Father! So glad to hear it.
I'll offer my Communion for you at my FSSP parish here in Pennsylvania tomorrow.
:-D
Orabo.
Deo gratias! The Ordinariate, and those of us who follow your published thoughts and reflections, will be much the stronger.
Wonderful news at long last.
Deo Gratias!
This is excellent news - the whole episode was incomprehensible
Axios!
Te Deum laudamus, te Dominum confitemur
What Rhiannon said.
Congratulations Father! I've been waiting for this day to come.
Praise God for this news and all His many benefits. May He grant you many more years as His minister.
I am so pleased! I haven't been able to contact you directly, as we were burgled last June and I lost your details, but, like so many others, have been praying for you daily.
Congratulations.
Father, I am overjoyed. Honestly I must admit that I was tempted to get angry during the past year over what I perceived as an injustice, but seeing your Christlike patience and obedience, I knew that trusting in the Lord and praying was a much better choice. May you have many years of fruitful ministry ahead! And I hope that those of us living quite far from Oxford can once again enjoy your wit and erudition online!
Congratulations, Fr. Hunwicke!
Congratulations, Father!
Incredible news!
Absolutely delighted for you sir. You have been - and remain - in my thoughts and prayers.
Tidings of joy! Every blessing for ordination and the many years of service beyond.
Deo gratias from Oberbozen, Italy
Te Deum!
Great news! I heard it first on Fr Ray's blog last week and it brightened up what is quite a difficult time to be a Catholic.
John
Splendid news!
Axios, Axios, Axios!
Congratulations :)
Praise God!
Good. You remain in my prayers. Geoffrey Brown
The best of times! Many thanks to Ss John Fisher & Thomas More.
You and your fellow co-Ordinates remain in my prayers.
Let Non nobis and Te Deum be sung!
Deo gratias!
We'll continue to pray for you from Arlington, TX. :D
Your friends at St Mary the Virgin in Arlington are jumping up & down & cheering.
Your friends at St Mary the Virgin in Arlington have been jumping up & down in delight. Congratulations.
We here at Casa Southard are so very happy to hear this! There is much rejoicing around these parts!
I am so pleased for you, and for the Church. May God's will be done, and bring you, and us, much joy.
Such good news fills my heart with joy for you and for the Holy Church!
Such news is a gift from heaven. How I rejoice for you and for Holy Church!
Laus Deo!
I'll offer my Novena to St Philip Neri for your intentions, Fr H. - and ask all others to join in this. Good St Philip bring you blessings!
Did that say "Senior Research Fellow at Pussy House"?
Deo gratias. We will remember you in the Office especially on that day. Thanks for all you do for us.
Congratulations, Fr. Hunwicke!
Deo gratias! You will continue to be in my prayers.
Congratulations! Prayers ascending from Toronto
I am so glad to read this news :-)
May God richly bless you !
Fr.Hunwicke, you're back! Deo Gratias! Praying for you from Malaysia.
Laus Deo!
(And please say a prayer for me, another ex-Anglican priest in the Catholic ordination process...)
Alea iacta sit; congratulations Father Hunwicke! Patientia vincit omia. May your continued service to Christ and His Church be a blessing to all: Acuto homine nobis opus est, qui pervestiget quid sui cives cogitent! In prayer, Rev. Geoffrey de Jong, Netherlands.
Dear Fr H.,
Being now in Rome, I will put in a good word for you with St Philip Neri, whose mortal remains I am about visit at the Chiesa Nuova.
Again, every blessing to you; and it is most providential, surely, that you'll be deaconed on St Philip's day; I can imagine him with Newman at his side (and Faber too, if he's out of purgatory yet), looking down from their vantage point so near to Almighty God, and being pleased to intercede for you, especially as having borne up manfully under the past year's humiliations.
Wonderful news!
Te Deum Laudamus...
Congratulations, Fr. Hunwicke.
Bruno Moreno (Spain)
We enjoin you and your community in prayer and rejoice that the Lord's great work is accomplished through human obedience inspired by His Wisdom.
Deo gratias!
Te Deum laudamus!
Wonderful news!
On the eve of your diaconal ordination I wish that God grant you many, many years!
s/Humble chaplain
Congratulations on today's joy!
Axios! Axios!!! Congratulations! I hope you will resume your writing on this blog very soon!!
Welcome Deacon Hunwicke!
Welcome home Deacon Hunwicke!
fxr2
Congratulations Fr Deacon Hunwicke!
Axios!
I just wanted to add one more small voice to the chorus of congratulations.
Susan Peterson
You have provided everyone with the most marvellous example of true Christian obedience. May the Lord be with your spirit.
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