Yes, all Catholics are welcome to worship and receive the sacraments in an ordinariate congregation. Our ordinariate mass fulfills any Catholic’s Sunday obligation.

The ordinariate is a special canonical structure created by Pope Benedict for groups of Anglicans and Episcopalians who wished to come into full communion with the Catholic Church, while retaining much of their musical, liturgical, artistic, and devotional heritage. Our ordinariate functions like a non-geographic diocese with congregations across the U.S. and in Canada. Our ordinary, the head of the ordinariate, is Msgr. Jeffrey Steenson, whose principal church is Our Lady of Walsingham Catholic Church, Houston, TX.

Our liturgy was composed by the Anglicanae Traditiones commission, an interdicasterial commission of the Vatican. The liturgy was created to reflect significant elements of the Anglican liturgical tradition. This liturgy is approved and authorized for use by churches of the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter.

Some of the distinct elements of our liturgy include the use of Tudor English, elements of the older Roman Rite, and prayers coming out of the English Reformation.