Toronto Group

My correspondent continues,

St Thomas More, Toronto is Canada's only "gathered" group. Back in the eighties a former rector of a local Anglo-Catholic parish who became a Roman Catholic tried to form an Anglican Use group of former Anglicans who had preceded him into the Church but could not get the required permission. Some of these people reappeared when the Ordinariate was in formation and formed the core of the STM mission. Since then there have been perhaps eight or ten receptions from assorted denominations. The priest is one of only three who came directly from the Anglican Church of Canada to the US-Canadian Ordinariate. He has been blogging as Peregrinus here since before the OCSP was erected, and although I find his blog long-winded and tendentious it is currently one of only two Canadian on-line sources of Ordinariate news. There are about a hundred Anglican churches in the city of Toronto. The number of current or former Anglicans is probably close to 100,000. In 2013, the Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto reported that 2,478 adults were received into the Church at Easter. The fact that St Thomas More draws perhaps 30 people on a Sunday is again, I think, an indication that the market for the Ordinariate has been grossly over-estimated, along with its role in the New, or even the Old, Evangelization.