served the C of E myself for over 20 years as a licensed lay reader. For personal reasons,I have for the past 20 years, worshipped in my local Catholic church, simultaneously attend- ing the 8 a.m. Eucharist in my parish church. I support Affirming Catholicism (liberal
Anglo-Catholic), Broken Rites (supporting bro- ken clergy marriages), Advent (Married RC priests and Religious) and Catholic Women’s Ordination. Here is scope, one day, for Rome to follow Canterbury! Janet Vickers Plymouth, Devon
The new ordinariate is a little late in believ- ing it may bring Englishness to Catholicism. I am proud to descend from a humble family, working as woodmen, foresters, gamekeep- ers, shopkeepers and engineers, which has always been Catholic and lived in Staffordshire. My ancestors all remained loyal to the English Crown and to Rome, starting with my great (x8) grandfather, George Wilcox, born in 1595. Gerard B. Wilcox Lichfield, Staffordshire
Korea’s new missionaries After reading of the priests from Cameroon who will serve in Portsmouth Diocese (Notebook, 1 January), I am moved to share with you the new missionary vision of the Korean Church. Last month, 32 priests and 37 deacons were ordained for the Archdiocese of Seoul, while the Diocese of Incheon ordained 17 priests and 11 deacons. Until recently, the Church here sent priests and nuns to the Korean diaspora around the world where they essentially looked after their own. But now there is a definite missionary thrust on the part of their own indigenous religious orders, the Korean Foreign Missionary Society and individual diocesan priests signing on to work with (for example) the Columban mis- sionaries to spread the Gospel around the world. In the Australian Diocese of Broken Bay, Korean priests from the Incheon Diocese have for several years been working in Australian parishes rather than setting up their own Korean Church. Recently a Salesian missionary and medical doctor, Fr John Lee, achieved almost sainthood status here fol- lowing his death from cancer while ministering to the people of Sudan. I think it’s good to share not only our priests but also the news of our sister Churches and particularly the Good News. (Fr) John L. Sullivan OSA Kanghwa Island, South Korea
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Master translator In your leader “Translation for the soul” (15 January), marking the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible, I am disappointed that there is no mention of William Tyndale, who was the first to translate the New Testament from the original Greek. His completely revised New Testament was printed in 1534 and in many places the translators of the authorised version took Tyndale almost unchanged – moreover, a great many of those phrases which have passed into the language and with which the authorised version is cred- ited, were taken directly from Tyndale. His translations direct from the Greek and Hebrew into straightforward vigorous English remain the basis of both the authorised and revised versions. When Tunstall, the Bishop of London, refused his support, in 1524 Tyndale went to Germany where he spent a hand-to-mouth existence dodging the Catholic authorities, who in 1535 caught up with him and, after a period of imprisonment, had him strangled and burnt at the stake in Antwerp in 1536. All this is, thankfully, in the past, and it was encouraging that in September 2002 Bishop Paul der Berghe invited the Anglican Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe, the Right Revd Geoffrey Rowell, to occupy his throne in Antwerp Cathedral during an Anglican serv- ice held there. The Catholic bishop said that Tyndale was killed unjustly. “We ask you the Lord forgiveness for this crime and we hope that one day our still divided Churches will acknowledge the martyrs of other Churches,” he told Dr Rowell. (Dr) John Clayton Devizes, Wiltshire
Standing orders Kathleen Dawson (Letters, 29 January) hopes that new missals will include instructions “sit”, “stand” and “kneel”. I remember attending Mass in central London in the early days of the ver- nacular liturgy. We were handed duplicated sheets with at one point the instruction “stand except in Hexham and Newcastle”. I hope people up there have had a chance
to stretch their legs. Lawrence Fullick Bournemouth, Hampshire
A.N. Wilson recounts a story about Hilaire Belloc in his 1984 biography. While at Mass in Westminster Cathedral, Belloc was stand- ing, according to the French custom, during Communion. A verger, thinking he was an idle tourist, started to gesture to him. Belloc turned and said irritably, “Go to hell.” The reply: “Sorry sir, I didn’t know you were a Catholic.” Patrick Bennett Woking, Surrey
The living Spirit
Mary, I beg you, by that grace Through which the Lord is with you, And you willed to be with him, Let your mercy be with me, Let love for you always be with me, And the care of me be always with you. St Anselm
Door Into the Sacred Paul Murray
(Darton, Longman and Todd, 2010)
Mary is the first disciple. She is a model of what it means to live totally centred in God, and what it means to go with haste to our neighbour in need, what it means to ponder the mystery of life as it unfolds, what it means to stand firm in the midst of suffering in the conviction that for a follower of Jesus, it is death that leads to the fullness of life.
Marie Schwan Come Home
Ave Maria Press, 2010
In Christ lies the hope of true, full health; the salvation that he brings is the true response to the ultimate questions about man. There is no contradiction between earthly health and eternal salvation, since the Lord died for the integral sal- vation of the human person and of all humanity.
Pope John Paul II
World Day of Prayer for the Sick 11 February 2005
We need not pray in words: life is a prayer. Anything we offer to God is our prayer. Everything we offer is our prayer, and God receives it with open arms. You can allow your very breath to be your prayer, if you like … What do you have to offer to the One who made you? The psalmist wrote, “What can I give back to God for the bless- ings he’s poured out on me?” How about everything that’s good about you – your made-in-the-image-of-God self? Beauti - ful. God-breathed. Unique. Purposeful. Priceless. Believe it or not, you really do have so much to offer.
Brian Draper Labyrinth (Lion, 2010)
11 February is the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes and the
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