The Ottawa Group

My correspondent reports,

The former Anglican Catholic Church of Canadsa Cathedral of The Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary is now a US-Canadian Ordinariate mission. Between 30 and 40 members of this congregation and of two smaller ACCC groups in the Ottawa area were received in 2012. Mrs Deborah Gyapong is a member of this group and was a contributor to The Anglo-Catholic in its heyday, as well as authoring her own blogs, Foolishness to the World being the most recent. She is a journalist by profession. At one point, her posts, and the comments thereon, were key sources of Ordinariate information but she seems to have gradually wound down her interest in this medium. She was appointed to the board of the new Anglicanorum Coetibus Society, but like that body has posted nothing since last November. Annunciation has an up to date Facebook page and publishes a newsletter online, with details of many regular worship and fellowship opportunities. It has two clergy, at least one of whom is below secular retirement age. It owns a church.

It is holding its own, but it is not growing. This seems to me symptomatic of the lack of demand for what the Ordinariates have to offer. This post is typical of the buzz that preceded the erection of the Ordinariates. (Earlier posts that year looked forward to 100 parish groups poised to enter the North American Ordinariate, including a thousand Canadian members, and 26 groups in Australia). Even when groups are doing the right things, there seems to be a low ceiling.