St. Mary of the Angels, Hollywood, California, has a distinguished history as a center for Anglo-Catholic worship and devotion. It was the site of many meetings which led to the establishment of the Pastoral Provision in the United States, and it has served as an inspiration to many of us who have found our home in the Roman Catholic Church, even though St. Mary's itself (through a series of difficult circumstances) had not made the move.
All that's about to change. A vote was taken today to decide if the parish will become part of the Ordinariate when it is established. The result was overwhelming — 82% of those eligible to vote are in favour of the move into the Ordinariate. Thanks be to God!
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Fr. Christopher G. Phillips is the pastor of Our Lady of the Atonement Catholic Church in San Antonio, Texas, where he has served for the past twenty-seven years. He is the founding pastor of the first Anglican Use parish, erected in 1983 under the terms of the Pastoral Provision. Fr. Phillips was ordained as an Anglican for the Diocese of Bristol, England, in 1975. After serving as Curate for three years at St. Stephen Southmead, he returned to the United States and served in two Episcopal parishes in the Diocese of Rhode Island. In 1981 he left the Episcopal Church and moved with his family to Texas, where he was subsequently ordained as a Catholic priest in 1983. Fr. Phillips and his wife, JoAnn, have been married for forty years. They have five children, all grown and married, and two grandchildren. 
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