LATEST NEWS FROM THE ORDINARIATE 
The first Ordinariate women's group has been established. It is based at the London (South) Ordinariate (meeting at Precious Blood Church, London Bridge) and is thriving.
The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham will be celebrating Evensong and Benediction in St Edmund's College, Cambridge, every week during full term from this Sunday.
Inspired by the Year of Faith, which opened this week, the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham is hosting a one day conference on mission and evangelisation for members and supporters of Pope Benedict's vision for the reunion of Anglicans with the See of Peter.
Archbishop Gerhard Müller (right), Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington, and Mgr Steve Lopes, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and Secretary to the Anglicanae Traditiones working party, will be featured speakers at a symposium to mark the first anniversary of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter in Houston, Texas.
Last night, St Anselm's, Pembury, Kent - a newly erected quasi-parish of the Archdiocese of Southwark, led by Ordinariate priest Father Ed Tomlinson and made up of an equal number of Ordinariate and diocesan Catholics, held the first of ten special reflections to mark the Year of Faith.
Monsignor Keith Newton, Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, has endorsed the From Ocean to Ocean pilgrimage of the replica image of Our Lady of Częstochowa at a 'crucial time' for the defence of family and the dignity of human life.
Mgr Andrew Burnham gave the sermon at Solemn Evensong and Benediction for the opening of the Year of Faith in Cambridge. You can read the complete sermon here.
On Sunday 7 October the Bournemouth Ordinariate Group are having the loan of a digital organ, similar to the model they are proposing to acquire. A Viscount Envoy digital organ will be used at the 9.30am (Ordinariate) Mass, the 11.00am (Parish) Mass and at the 4.00pm Evensong, which will be followed by a demonstration recital given by Peter Cook.
On Saturday 6 October, there will be a tour of those places in the City of London which are of historical Catholic significance. The tour, which is free, will last around 90 minutes, starting at 2.00pm at the Church of St Mary Moorfield, Eldon Street EC2 7LS.
On Saturday 20 October, a Blessed Sacrament Procession will be held in London. The procession starts from Westminster Cathedral at 3.00pm, and will lead to Southwark Cathedral for Benediction at around 4.30pm.
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