Welcome to the website of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross, erected by His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI in 2012. The Ordinariate currently includes eleven worship communities across Australia.
An important part of the spirituality of the Ordinariate is its use of the English vernacular in the liturgy of the Church. The best example of these reforms are contained in the Book of Common Prayer and it is the English of Archbishop Cramner that informed the development of the Ordinariate's liturgies. Recently, Father Ramsay Williams delivered an address to the Prayer Book Society on this subject. Monsignor Entwistle encourages all the faithful to read it and it can be downloaded here.
By the Reverend Monsignor Harry Entwistle, Ordinary January 2019 The Australian Catholic Bishops are well aware of the challenging times the Church is facing. In numerous countries the revelations of commissions and enquiries into abuse are scandalous and indefensible. Political facti
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By the Reverend Monsignor Harry Entwistle, Ordinary December, 2018 In celebrating the birth of Our Lord Jesus at Christmas, we are celebrating the fact that because God became human, there must be something about humanity that enables God to be encountered through it. The gift of life
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