Oblates Being Oblates in Their Respective States of Life

Though we, in the Anglican-flavored Ordinariates, call this season Trinitytide rather than Ordinary Time, I (Br. John-Bede Pauley, O.S.B.) would be reluctant to sacrifice the idea that this long stretch during the liturgical year is not without its quotidian ordinariness.  What can seem like trudging through a liturgical same old same old is paradoxically where…

Ordination of Rev. Mr. Stephen Aethelwold Hilgendorf, Obl.S.B., to the Priesthood

Please remember in your prayers Stephen Aethelwold Hilgendorf, Obl.S.B.; his family; his fellow ordinands; and the Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter as the day of Stephen’s ordination to the priesthood approaches. 29 June at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham, Houston, Texas.

_Our Lady’s Hymn_, by Fr. Andrew Hardy

Someday—someday soon, I hope—I will be able to return to the Patristic-Lectionary series and the Anglican-Notables series.  In the meantime, I mention a promising title that has been published by Akenside Press, one of the ministries of our own Fr. Matthew Cuthbert Dallman, Obl.S.B., and that has an introduction by our own Nathaniel Joseph Marshall,…