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Ordinariate Life

Bishop David Waller recently blessed a newly carved statue of Saint John Henry Newman during Choral Evensong at the Ordinariate and Parish Church of the Most Precious Blood. Fr Ed Tomlinson preached a fine sermon.

Evensong on Thursday 8 October can be watched in full below.

Music

Introit: Holy is the true Light
Office hymn: Lead, kindly Light (tune: Alberta)
Psalm: 150 (Stanford)
Canticles: Dyson in D
Te Deum: Stanford
Hymn: Praise to the Holiest (tune: Chorus Angelorum)
Voluntary: Finale Jubilante, Healey Willan

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Hands joined in prayer over an open book

Fr Michael Halsall

Fortnightly Spiritual Conferences

Portrait of St John Henry Newman

Fr Michael Halsall

We remember the departed: A Hymn for the Dead by St John Henry Newman

Carved ivory panel of the Crucifixion from the British Museum collection

Fr Timothy Ezat

From Scripture to Early Christianity

Oil painting of Blessed Adrian Fortescue on the altar at St Mary's, Husbands Bosworth

Fr Matthew Pittam

Blessed Adrian Fortescue's Shrine

Icons of the apostles in the porch niches at St Margaret Mary, New Moston

Fr Andrew Starkie

Mission Highlights: Manchester

Inside Christ the King Catholic Church, Eastbourne

Fr Neil Chatfield

A Foretaste of Heaven

Purgatory by Ludovico Carracci

Bishop David Waller

"Holiness is God’s work in us"

Poster for Choral Evensong at the Most Precious Blood, Wednesday 11 November 2026 at 7pm

Choral Evensong for Remembrance Day at the Most Precious Blood

Poster for Paul Greally's organ recital at the Most Precious Blood, Saturday 7 November 2026 at 12.30pm

Organ recital at the Most Precious Blood with Paul Greally

Bishop David Waller

Bishop David Waller

"At the festival, we saw the full strength and beauty of the Ordinariate"

Sunlight falling through the entrance of an empty rock-cut tomb, its round stone rolled aside

Last Things First: Living in the Light of Eternity

St John Henry Newman

Bishop Waller to install a statue of St John Henry Newman at Choral Evensong

Fr Neil Chatfield

Inside the Icon: St John Henry Newman in Symbol and Image

Come and See: the Ordinariate at the biggest Catholic festival in the UK

Fr Michael Halsall

Looking backward - looking forward: The Old Testament

Bishop David Waller

"The Church is Pro Life – life which is a gift from God"

Bishop David Waller

"The Ordinariate gathered those of diverse traditions to pray together as one Church"

"Yes, we are small; yes, we bring distinctive patrimony – but we are most definitely mainstream!"

Statement regarding Deacon Robert Smith

Into Full Communion: Joanna Bogle to Launch New Book on the Ordinariate

Bishop David Waller

"The universal is embodied in the local, the local is an intrinsic part of the Universal."

Bishop David Waller

“Be sealed with the gift of the Holy Spirit”

Fr Peter Conley

St John Henry Newman and Salvation’s Telescope

Fr Neil Chatfield

Mission Highlight: Fr Neil Chatfield and the Eastbourne Ordinariate Mission

Fr David Lashbrooke

The Sound of a Living Patrimony: Music, Liturgy, and the Ordinariate’s Gift to the Church

Crossing the Tiber: The Ordinariate Pilgrimage to Rome

Bishop David Waller

"Maybe this is what the apostles felt like on the evening of Pentecost?"

Priests of The Ordinariate launch new books!

Fr Peter Conley

How Did St John Henry Newman Pray the Rosary?

“Fruit of the Second Spring”: The Ordinariate at the WeBelieve Festival