Oslo ordination

Staying with a Scandinavian theme my Norwegian friend Ole Martin Stamnestro has sent me on the internet an extensive album of photographs of his ordination as a Deacon in Oslo cathedral on January 6th. It looks to have been a splendid occasion which I regret I was not able to attend.

Here is one of the pictures he sent, showing Martin standing between the Bishop of Oslo and, I assume, his assistant bishop.

Ordination in Oslo

I commend to your prayers my good friend Martin Stamnestro who will be ordained as a deacon by the Bishop of Oslo in his cathedral tomorrow evening.

Martin is Norwegian by birth and upbringing, but with a degree from Durham, followed by a D.Phil. in liturgical history from Oxford. I met him as Pusey House, and he is one of my group of friends from there who, like me, have been received into the full peace and communion of the Catholic Church. He has been training in Norway and Germany for ministry.

St Olav's Cathedral, Oslo

Image: Wikimedia

There is more about the cathedral here.