{"id":1620,"date":"2009-10-21T21:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T21:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2009\/10\/the-vicar-on-personal-ordinariates\/"},"modified":"2014-12-24T11:04:31","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T16:04:31","slug":"the-vicar-on-personal-ordinariates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2009\/10\/the-vicar-on-personal-ordinariates.html","title":{"rendered":"The Vicar on Personal Ordinariates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Guest blogger, The Rev\u2019d Humphrey Blytherington is Vicar of St Hilda\u2019s, Little Snoring with All Saints, Great Snoring. He is a graduate of Plymouth University. He completed his studies for the ministry at Latimer Hall, Durham. He is married to Daphne and enjoys home brewing, model railroading and is an avid member of the Great Snoring Morris Dancers.<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n

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I\u2019m not really sure what you chaps are talking about, in fact, you seem to know a good bit more about all this than I do. It\u2019s only just come up you know and no one told me about it and I didn\u2019t know anything before Daphne shouted \u2018Praise Be\u2019 from the other side of the Daily Telegraph at breakfast on Tuesday.\n
I do know that Giles over at St Barnabas seems rather excited. He\u2019s always been rather Catholic in his tastes and he\u2019s been talking of nothing else all week. He seems to think that before too long he and his people will be able to transfer over to the Pope in Rome and that they will have their own bishop called an ordinariness or some such. I personally don\u2019t know what all the hoo-ha is about. Giles and his people have had their own \u2018flying bishop\u2019 for years now. Why, the Bishop of Jeeves and Wooster hasn\u2019t set foot in St Barnabas ever since he started ordaining the ladies.<\/div>\n
From what I can make out the Pope in Rome has launched an attack on the Church of England, saying that all the fellows like Giles can become Catholics if they want. They can be ordained as papists even if they have wives and kiddies, and they can bring all their folks along with them. I can tell you, that if this is true, I, for one am not especially pleased. I mean really, what cheek! It\u2019s all well and good to let the Roman Catholics have their own churches, I mean someone has to minister to the Irish navies and Italian waiters, and now the Polish plumbers and Phillippino nurses, but to think that good solid English people like Giles and the folks over at St Barnabas should want to \u2018Pope\u2019! It\u2019s a scandal. That\u2019s what it is!<\/div>\n
I\u2019m not surprised it\u2019s come to this. It\u2019s been building up for weeks now. First the Roman Catholics announce that they\u2019re brining the Pope to Britain, then the Duke of Edinburgh goes to a Mary-worshipping Roman shrine, then they cart the bones of that poor French gal across the country and we have to watch fat Italian ladies kissing the bones and so forth, now the Pope in Rome makes a claim on our churches, our clergy and our good English people. I\u2019m not one for so called conspiracy theories, but I\u2019m beginning to think all the old stories of the Pope\u2019s wanting to control the world are about right!<\/div>\n
Listen lads, there\u2019s no reason for it either! All of us know that the Church of England is Catholic already. We\u2019re Catholic but reformed. King Henry VIII and his friend Cromwell saw that the monasteries were corrupt and the fat old monks needed to get their act together so they cleaned things up a bit, that\u2019s all, why I\u2019m just as much a Catholic priest as Fr. Corrigan down at Sacred Heart. Why should he think that he\u2019s better than me? That\u2019s a fair question isn\u2019t it?<\/div>\n
No, Nigel I will not answer that question. I\u2019m feeling rather het up tonight as you can see, and I don\u2019t really want to discuss matters further, and I am certainly not going to take the bait with your questions about Mrs Vicar. Daphne has her own choices to make and I will not interfere, but I will say that it is none of your business, and if you don\u2019t mind I\u2019d like to change the subject.<\/div>\n
I\u2019ll just finish my half pint of lager shandy now and be heading home. I\u2019m not in the mood to be teased, and it is not true that Daphne has changed her name to \u2018Therese.\u2019<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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