Please pray for Phil and Carole

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Hi. I recently met a married couple (Phil and Carole) who’ve started attending Mass in my parish. They’re an Anglican couple, they’ve been through RCIA, but Phil told me today that he wants to continue being Anglican and come along to our Masses as well (they’re Anglo-Catholic [he was a minister in the High Church]).

I invited them along to a Cursillo meeting (I’m coordinator of our local group of 6) and he said that apparently there are two factions in the Anglican Church - one for Cursillo, and one opposed, and unfortunately, they belong to the group which is opposed. I’ve asked them if they could bring up the Offertory, and they said “No, because we haven’t received the letter from the Bishop saying that we’re officially Catholic”. This was at Easter.

I’ve tried all I could to be inclusive (me and another fellow, who was a High-Church convert also), but they seem to be unsure still (perhaps that could be a reason for our Bishops’ hesitation in granting them full communion with the Church, I don’t profess to know the Bishops’ mind, though).

Could you please remember Phil and Carole in your prayers, that they receive the guidance they need? Thank you.
 
From what I can tell, you are doing very well in being inclusive, reaching out to them without being coercive or impatient, letting them make their own decisions by their consciences. You are doing good work. I congratulate you for your conversion, as you seem to imply that you also converted from Anglicanism, and I pray for you, your friend who you said is a fellow convert, and Phil and Carole, that all of you may continue to be open to the light of Christ as it is clarified and purified by the prism of the Roman Catholic Church, allowing that light to fill you and shine out to others, leading them closer to Christ and His Church; that your evangelical, apologetical and charitable acts may continue to grow, strengthening one another through good and bad times, just as Simon of Cyrene aided Christ as He carried His Cross; and that you and all converts to the Faith, particularly those from Anglicanism, and all those in the Anglican Ordinariate may be forgiven all your sins, healed and protected from all ills, and encouraged in your continued conversion to Christ. I ask for the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary Our Lady of Walsingham; Blessed John Henry Newman; J.R.R. Tolkien; G.K. Chesterton; St. Thomas Beckett; and St. Thomas More, and all the saints of England or English descent, and all saints from Australia. God bless. 🙂

Under thy compassion we take refuge, Theotokos; do not disregard our prayers in the midst of tribulation, but deliver us from danger, O Only Pure, Only Blessed One.
 
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.

Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb Jesus.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.

Amen.

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Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name.

Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

Amen.

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Perhaps Phil can attend one of the Australian Anglican Ordinariate communities ordinariate.org.au/communities/

I know it’s approx 1.5 hours away from Wollongong, but the one at Holy Cross Parish in the Sydney area might be what he needs.

Being Catholic, but still holding onto the Anglican traditions.

Good luck and God Bless

Phil
 
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
 
Hail, holy Queen, Mother of mercy, hail, our life, our sweetness and our hope. To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve: to thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this vale of tears. Turn then, most gracious Advocate, thine eyes of mercy toward us, and after this our exile, show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus, O merciful, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary! Amen.
 
Thank you all very very much for praying, and God Bless You.

Carole and Phil have since been received into the Church, and I gave them Communion today.
 
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