Fr Harris, of the Fredericton community of Our Lady of the Sign, has been offering a Divine Worship mass at irregular intervals for several months in Halifax (about a four hour drive from Fredericton). There is no website, but contact information is given on the OCSP website, and there is also a notice on the local archdiocesan website.My other visitor pointed out,I do not think that getting a core group of inquirers together is rocket science, nor does it require episcopal effort. If it has not been undertaken by other priests incardinated in the OCSP who are without groups it is because their diocesan, chaplaincy, or teaching responsibilities keep them fully occupied. As I have mentioned, even those who have a regular Divine Worship mass in addition to local parish duties seem to be maintaining the status quo, but not growing their Ordinariate community.
The membership of the [UK Ordinariate] has stagnated at around 1500 for the last two years. I feel this is because the model of having a priest whose primary responsibility is a diocesan parish, with an Ordinariate group on the side, is not conducive to developing an attractive destination for those thinking of entering the Catholic church. If this becomes the primary model in the OCSP (and financially it seems inevitable) I do not foresee a different outcome than that experienced by the OOLW.
I presume that you did not see the recent article about Fr. Timothy Perkins, the new vicar general for the Archdiocese, that first appeared in North Texas Catholic and was republished on the Ordinariate Expats web site.On this, we'll have to see what develops -- but there's no easy way as yet that anyone in the vicinity of these discerning groups can get in touch with them and potentially swell their numbers. Why not?The article quotes Fr. Perkins as saying that he is now working with half a dozen congregations that are "discern[ing] their path into the church," one of which he had recently visited in Kentucky where there is no ordinariate presence right now.
