Welcome
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to the website of St John Henry Newman, Victoria, British Columbia. We are a Roman Catholic Quasi-Parish of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter, a body established in 2011 following Pope Benedict XVI’s historic Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus, which made it possible for groups of Anglicans to come into the full communion of the Catholic Church whilst retaining elements of their liturgical, spiritual, and cultural patrimony as a gift and a treasure to be shared with the whole Church.
Our community is under the patronage of the great theologian and priest St John Henry, Cardinal Newman, a 19th century Anglican convert to the Catholic Church who was canonised on 13 October 2019. We are a friendly, family-oriented, and welcoming community of traditional Catholic faith and practise, as reflected in our liturgy, music, and preaching. We exist to worship God in the triune majesty of the Blessed Trinity, drawing all men and women into deepest communion with him through his Son, our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and in the power and fellowship of the Holy Spirit. |
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Indoor Masses and other services are, once more, permitted by the Government of British Columbia. The schedule of Sunday and Daily Masses (with a limit of 50) returns to the former schedule. Please note the restrictions outlined in the Variance, here, which permits indoor services. Read more on the restrictions, announced by the Government of BC, here.
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This Week
Our home is the Church of Our Lady, Queen of Peace, built in 1930 as a memorial to those who died in the First World War. The church lies just west of downtown Victoria, in Esquimalt, and is a parish of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Victoria. The church is also home to Victoria’s Latin Mass community.
Confessions are available 15 minutes before all Masses. Alternatively, an appointment may be made by contacting Fr Kenyon. |
Monday 31 May
The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary No public Mass Tuesday 1 June St Justin, Martyr Mass 9.30 am Wednesday 2 June Ss Marcellinus & Peter, Martyrs Anniversary of the Coronation of HM Queen Elizabeth II Mass 9.30 am Thursday 3 June Ss Charles Lwanga & Companions, Martyrs Mass 9.30 am Friday 4 June Feria Mass 9.30 am Saturday 5 June St Boniface, Bishop & Martyr Mass 9.30 am Sunday 6 June CORPUS CHRISTI Sung Mass & Benediction 2 pm | Mass 4 pm |
The Ordinariate
The Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter in Canada and the United States is one of three ordinariates in the world, the others being the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham (England and Wales), and the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross (Australia). These bodies, similar to a diocese, are not however based on geography, but rather on membership, and membership is by personal choice, which is why each ordinariate is ‘Personal’.
Members of the Ordinariate are fully integrated into the life of the Catholic Church. Most were former Anglicans, received into the full communion of the Church, others have become members by virtue of baptism, marriage, or who have family members in the Ordinariate. All are fully Catholic, able to receive the Sacraments in any Catholic church. And similarly any Catholic may attend Mass celebrated according to the Ordinariate Form of the Roman Rite (Divine Worship: The Missal) and receive the Sacraments from an Ordinariate priest. All are welcome!
Members of the Ordinariate are fully integrated into the life of the Catholic Church. Most were former Anglicans, received into the full communion of the Church, others have become members by virtue of baptism, marriage, or who have family members in the Ordinariate. All are fully Catholic, able to receive the Sacraments in any Catholic church. And similarly any Catholic may attend Mass celebrated according to the Ordinariate Form of the Roman Rite (Divine Worship: The Missal) and receive the Sacraments from an Ordinariate priest. All are welcome!
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The founding document of the ordinariates is Anglicanorum coetibus (Groups of Anglicans), published in 2009 by Pope Benedict XVI. This was the favourable response of the Holy See to repeated petitions from Anglicans to be received into full communion in a corporate manner. The erection of personal ordinariates was the practical means to make this response a reality. Since the establishment of the first Ordinariate in England and Wales in 2011 thousands of Anglicans have made the journey home to the fulness of the Catholic Church whilst retaining elements of those Anglican traditions - liturgical, spiritual, and pastoral - which both nourished them and served as an impetus towards full communion. This noble patrimony is now, in the words of Anglicanorum coetibus, ‘a treasure to be shared’ with the whole Church.
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