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Priests Associate of the Holy House undertake:
- To honour Mary, the Mother of God and to deepen faith in the
incarnation of Our Lord.
- To promote devotion to Our Lady and pilgrimage to Walsingham.
- To further, with the aid of Our Lady's prayers, the conversion of
the nations and the re-union of Christendom.
- To seek holiness of life through prayer, the scriptures and the
sacraments.
- To say the Angelus each day.
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Priests Associate are asked to offer Mass, monthly if possible, for
the work of the Shrine and for all who visit the Holy House and are
interceded for there.
The Constitution of the Association
The Guardians of the Holy House have ultimate responsibility for the
life of the Shrine. They delegate the running of the Association to
the Priest Administrator of the Shrine who is ex officio the
Superior General of the Association.
A lamp burns in the Holy House for Priests Associate; they are
prayed for each day by members of the Living Rosary and in the
intercessions at Shrine Prayers in Walsingham. A monthly requiem is
offered at the Shrine for departed Priests Associate; their names
are recorded in the Walsingham Review, the magazine of the
Association and the Society of Our Lady of Walsingham, in
thanksgiving for their life and ministry.
Priests Associate are invited to concelebrate at the National
Pilgrimage and at other events organised by the Shrine. They are
also able to identify themselves more closely with the Shrine's work
of intercession by joining the Living Rosary of Our Lady of
Walsingham; details from the Membership Secretary.
Membership
Membership of the Association is open to all priests who are
permitted to minister sacramentally at the Shrine: those of the
Anglican Communion who are in good standing with their Bishop and
episcopally ordained priests of Churches with whom the Anglican
Communion is in full communion. The Guardians maintain the
discipline of reserving sacramental ministry in the Shrine to male
priests ordained by a male bishop. When necessary the Superior
General of the Association (the Priest Administrator of the Shrine)
will rule on admission to the Association, and in extreme
circumstances may withdraw membership of the Association.
The joining fee is £10.00, for which a new Priest Associate receives
the Association's badge, a copy of the Shrine's Holy House Mass
Book and the current edition of the Walsingham Review.
The joining fee also covers the first year of membership. Thereafter there is an annual subscription
of £10.00 to cover the cost of receiving the Walsingham Review, the
magazine of the Association and of the Society of the Holy House of
Our Lady of Walsingham.
Details of each Priest Associate's name and address are recorded at
the Shrine. Priests Associate are asked to inform the Membership
Secretary of any change of address.
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