At the invitation of the Pastor, a presentation was given by Fr. James Bradley, to the parishioners of the Personal Parish of Saint Luke, Washington, D.C., a parish of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter, on the occasion of the inauguration of Divine Worship: The Missal, on the First Sunday of Advent 2015.
Fr. Bradley is a priest of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, United Kingdom, and is currently studying Canon Law in Washington D.C.
To access his sermon, click here.
Of the 32 groups advertising their service times in the December Portal, 5 indicate that one or more masses will be offered in the Ordinariate Use. This may not be a completely accurate picture (I believe St Agatha, Portsmouth uses DW, but this is not stated) but it does suggest a low uptake for the new missal in the OOLW, as we might have predicted. What happened to the pictures from MPB?
As it turned out, the photos on MPB’s facebook page were of an Ordinary Form Mass, which during Advent are celebrated ad orientem. I had mistakenly assumed that this was an introductory Mass for the Divine Worship Missal.