St Benedict, Edmonton, AB. A group of perhaps half a dozen, currently served by a retired diocesan priest. When he goes, the group will fold. St Gregory, Mobile AL Fr Venuti remains in poor health and can no longer minister to this very small group, which has been worshipping in the rectory chapel of Fr Venuti's diocesan parish. A diocesan priest will now offer mass for them once a month St Anselm, Greenville, SC Good news is that Fr Chalmers was replaced when he left to take on a full-time appointment at a school in Birmingham. Not-so-good news is that Ordinariate activity is confined to a Wednesday evening mass at 6:30. Not a recipe for long-term success, IMHO.Fr Chalmers's history at the Greenville parish is puzzling, as I've noted. Chalmers was ordained in 2012 with some fanfare as the second OCSP priest. His wife was replaced last year as the Ordinariate's Chancellor, while Chalmers himself took a position in Birmingham, AL as a Catholic school principal which, as far as I know, would not normally require an ordained priest -- and Chalmers's previous work history was in hospital administration. I suspect there's a story there.
Regarding my post yesterday, my correspondent notes the requirement that all Ordinariate groups purchase a standard accounting software package but adds,
If Houston was going to demand that groups acquire a standard program for enrollment and accounting it might have also considered sourcing a standard template for their websites so that every group would have at some minimum internet presence. Of course, Houston's own sorry start to getting on the web, and continuing underachievement in the whole area of information, tells us where their priorities lie, or at least lay.
