Chichester Ordinariate Group

18/12/2023

There will be no Mass on Saturday 23rd December. First Mass of Christmas on Sunday 24th at 4:15pm at St Richard's

31/05/2023

We have arrived! Buen Camino!

29/05/2023

Our Mass for Pentecost yesterday

28/05/2023

A misty start this morning - but it was 07:30am! No breakfast or rocket fuel (coffee) to get us going until we reached Arcada, with time for a paddle. Yes, that is Msg Keith paddling! This is the 3rd day we have reached our destination before the thunderstorms and rain hit, for which we have been truly thankful.

27/05/2023

Day 2. Porrino to Redondela. That's another 10 miles done!

26/05/2023

We made it and this is our reward

26/05/2023

Getting ready for the off on the first stage, Tui to Porrino

14/04/2022

Mass for Easter is at 3:30pm on Easter Day.

02/02/2022

To be celebrated according to Divine Worship:The Missal

21/05/2021

S. Godric of Finchdale
An 11th and 12th century hermit, and one of the earliest recorded writers of music. Godric was born c. 1065 in Norfolk, little is known of his early life save that he had a humble back-ground. Beginning a sea-faring career, it appears that he rose and became a ship’s captain and owner. On visiting Lindisfarne, he had an encounter with S. Cuthbert (not in person, as S. Cuthbert died centuries earlier, but potentially as an apparition) and thereafter devoted his life to God.

Having made a number of pilgrimages around the Mediterranean, he returned to England and lived under an established hermit, Ælric; when his mentor died, he made a final pilgrimage to Jerusalem before settling as a hermit in Finchdale, about four miles from Durham. As often seems to be the case, hermits who retreat from the world can nonetheless attract attention because of their holiness. S. Thomas Becket and Pope Alexander III were among those who sought Godric’s advice and counsel. Living in his hermitage for around 60 years, he died aged a few years over 100.

He wrote a number of songs during his time at Finchdale, which were recorded by his biographer Reginald of Durham; we still have a 13th century manuscript with these songs, making them the earliest in English with both words and music. One of these, in its original middle English with a modern ‘translation’ is below. They have been recorded and can be listened to on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdaJKv2VJrQ

Crist and sainte marie swa on scamel me iledde
þat ic on þis erðe ne silde wid mine bare fote i tredie
(Christ and S. Mary so carried me with a crutch
That I never had to tread upon this earth with my bare foot.)

"Sainte Marië Viërgenë" - "Crist and St. Marië" - "Sainte Nicholas, Godes Druth"