Monday, May 9, 2016

Apparently Marginal Ordinariate Groups -- II

My regular correspondent on these matters reports,
St James, St Augustine FL under the leadership of Fr Nicholas Marziani apparently continues to meet at 4:30 pm on Saturdays at St Benedict the Moor Catholic Church in St Augustine. Until October 2014 Fr Marziani maintained a fairly active webpage http://www.saintjameschurchsaintaugustine.org/ but it seems currently untended except for the monthly calendar which perhaps posts automatically. In his "Midweek Musing" of September 18, 2014 Fr Marziani reported proudly that there was a record number of worshippers that Saturday at St James'--21--but whether this was, as he hoped, the beginning of a "roll' or whether it was a high-water mark it is not possible to know. Fr Marziani's Facebook page seems to be lying fallow, and the St James community apparently never had one. There is nothing about St James in the bulletins of the host parish. Difficult to imagine that growth is taking place under these circumstances.
In unrelated news, a visitor reports that as of this morning, the Ordinariate's web site now lists Fr. Timothy Perkins as the vicar general. His name has also replaced that of Fr. Charles Hough III in the membership of the Ordinariate's governing council.

This sort of timely update is an encouraging sign.