Ordinariate Acolytes

Earlier this evening I attended the Ordinariate Mass at Holy Rood here in Oxford at which Jonathan Creer and Thomas Mason were admitted as Lectors and Acolytes by the Ordinary, Mgr Keith Newton.

Jonathan and Thomas are now studying at Oscott, but in addition to some students from there who had come to support them there were Oratorians, Dominicans and Franciscans sitting in choir who were their fellow students at Blackfriars in previous years.

The Mass was well attended and it was an opportunity to see the Ordinary celebrate in pontificals the Ordinariate Rite.

At the reception afterwards it was an opportunity to congratulate the new Lectors-Acolytes and to catch up with friends.