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The Ordinariate in Chelmsford

Blessed Sacrament
116 Melbourne Aveune
Chelmsford
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Welcome to our mission in

Chelmsford

The Chelmsford Ordinariate Group is based at the church of the Blessed Sacrament in Chelmsford.

New faces are always welcome, as are any Anglicans exploring becoming Catholics through the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, or former Anglicans who are already Catholics.

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Ordinary Mass times

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Monday to Saturday

9:15am

Sunday

9:30 and 11:30am (1st Sunday specifically Ordinariate)

Mission leadership

Fr Paul Cracknell

Group Pastor
paul.cracknell@ordinariate.org.uk
Retired

Parish Priest
Retired
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March 26, 2026
“A Precious Gift”: Rome Affirms the Ordinariate’s Mission
During the Plenary Meeting of the Bishop Ordinaries of the Personal Ordinariates established under the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus (2009), held at the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith from 1 to 3 March 2026, His Eminence Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández...
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Pastoral Letters
March 18, 2026
Bishop David Waller
Pastoral Letter | March 2026
Dear Friends, One of the distinguishing features of the Ordinariates’ calendar is the keeping of the season of “Pre-Lent”: the weeks preceding Ash Wednesday, including the Sundays known as Septuagesima; Sexagesima...
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