The web page of the
Blessed John Henry Newman community in Victoria, BC carries this announcement:
In order to make space for two additional Sunday Mass celebrations at our current host parish of Our Lady of Fatima, our community of Blessed John Henry Newman will be moving on Monday, August 27 to Our Lady Queen of Peace, located at 851 Old Esquimalt Road.
This points yet again to the instability of the smaller groups, and it appears that these groups will be kicked out of host parishes if other uses for the times and spaces supervene. My regular correspondent notes that OCSP groups are also potentially lower-status in Canada than in the US:
In Canada the ACC is a much more mainstream denomination than TEC. The poke in the eye to ecumenical partnerships which Anglicanorum coetibus represents far outweighs the Canadian Deanery's drop in the bucket evangelising efforts. Virtually all OCSP clergy are former "continuers"---a group of dissidents that most in the Catholic hierarchy would disapprove of on principle. The three members of the ACCC episcopacy came to the original conference hosted by then-Abp Collins in 2011 dressed in Gammarelli's finest, up to the purple zucchetti and down to the purple socks. He ignored them completely. He, of course, was in a black suit.
In addition, none of the Canadian communities is growing, and most have clergy who will soon be retiring, with in most cases no identifiable replacement.
