Ordinariate Diaconal Ordination at Warwick Street
Some great news to start the year as our wonderful Ordinariate movement gains two new transitional deacons. My congratulations to the Rev. David Butler and James Houghton who were ordained to the diaconate by Bishop Robert Byrne yesterday at the Ordinariate Church of Our Lady of the Assumption and St. Gregory, Warwick Street. Yesterday, Saturday 3 January, two members of the Ordinariate, David Butler and James Houghton, were ordained to the diaconate at the Ordinariate central church by the wonderful Rt Revd Robert Byrne Cong.Orat. , Auxiliary Bishop for Birmingham. The Revd David Butler recently took temporary vows as a hermit within the Ordinariate and an article about his way of life will appear in the February edition of Oremus , the Westminster Cathedral magazine. David was formerly an Anglican priest. He became a Catholic before the Ordinariate was established. When it came into being, he was registered as a member and wanted his religious vows to be under the jurisdic...