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What is the Ordinariate?
What is the Ordinariate?
The Ordinariate Use, also known as the Anglican Use, is a form of the Roman Rite, with it's own unique Mass and Office. The Personal Ordinariates were made by Pope Benedict XVI in 2009 for Anglicans to enter into full communion with Rome and for Roman Catholics who were nurtured in the Anglican tradition. Ordinariate Parishes and communities retain the important elements of the noble and ancient Anglican tradition (Ecclesia Anglicana), but are fully Roman Catholic. We celebrate the Holy Eucharist and the other Sacraments, along with the Divine Office, according to the liturgical books proper to the Anglican tradition, which have been approved by the Holy See. Through books such as Divine Worship: The Missal, and Divine Worship: Daily Office, we share our distinctive commitment to praising God in the eloquence of the Prayer Book tradition.
What is Evensong?
What is Evensong?
Evensong is the Evening Prayer of the Divine Worship: Daily Office, which is the Ordinariate form of the Divine Office. It is equivalent to a combination of Vespers and Compline in the ordinary form of the Divine Office, the Liturgy of the Hours. It is based closely on the Evensong of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer. Those who pray it with us are praying the Divine Office, which is part of the public prayer of the Church and "is truly the voice of the Bride herself addressed to her Bridegroom. It is the very prayer which Christ himself together with his Body addresses to the Father." (Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph 1174)
Who is this for?
Who is this for?
The Good Shepherd Trust and all of its events are open to anyone who wishes to join us. We were created because the only Ordinariate parish in Oshawa, the Church of the Good Shepherd, was closed. Many people who were not part of the Ordinariate joined us regularly for Mass, and now everyone is free to join us for Evensong as well. Praying Evensong together gives us the chance to preserve our Anglican traditions as Catholics, which are "a precious gift nourishing the faith of the members of the Ordinariate and a treasure to be shared." (Pope Benedict XVI, Anglicanorum Coetibus)
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