Several carloads of Lymington Parishioners together with Fathers Danny and Peter were at Portsmouth Cathedral on Saturday for Deacon Edwin's ordination to the priesthood. We were all sitting in the front two rows and had an excellent view of his prostration during the Litany of the Saints.
After the Laying-on of Hands he was invested with his stole and chasuble by Fr Peter, who more than forty
years earlier had made a similar journey of faith to become a Catholic priest.
Now a fully ordained priest of the Catholic Church, Fr Edwin and his wife Jane stand between Bishop Crispian on the left of the photo and Fr Keith Newton, the newly appointed Ordinary, on the right. Although Fr Edwin will be part of the Ordinariate, he will also be working for the Diocese so will be available sometimes to help us in this Parish. To prove that this could be so, sixteen hours after his ordination he was saying the early Sunday Mass at St Anne's before coming over to Lymington to assist the Bishop at the eleven o'clock Mass here. Then on Monday he said the 9.30 Mass here, so he has certainly hit the ground running! We wish him well and promise him our prayers.
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