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October 9, 2025
Fr Peter Conley
Newman’s ‘Mind-Pictures’ Rosary
Newman describes how a childhood hand sketch on the cover of his school Latin verse book “almost took my breath away.” He realized, with pleasing astonishment, how far back the roots of his Marian spirituality stretched as he gazed...
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September 19, 2025
Organ Recital Series at Most Precious Blood 2025/6
The 2025/6 Organ Recital Series at the Ordinariate and Parish Church of the Most Precious Blood Church, London Bridge begins with a recital for Voice and Organ on Saturday 4th October at 12:30pm.
May 20, 2025
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May 22, 2025
Ordinariate Festival 2025
Every year we gather our whole community together for our festival, an experience of fellowship, worship and unity.
The Catholic Parish of Chapelfields & Earlsdon, Kingsland Avenue, Coventry, CV5 8DX
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Do Anglicans who want to become Catholic have to join the Ordinariate?
The Holy Father's offer of a Personal Ordinariate for Anglicans entering into full communion with the Catholic Church is a generous and pastoral response to the desire of Anglicans for unity with the See of Peter. 
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How did Pope Benedict XVI help to create the Ordinariate?
In September 2010, the Holy Father was keen to stress that the Apostolic Constitution "should be seen as a prophetic gesture that can contribute positively to the developing relations between Anglicans and Catholics". 
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Does the Ordinariate have parishes?
The Ordinariate will, in the future, have parishes where it has groups of members. These will be 'personal' parishes and not 'territorial' like a diocesan parish.