A bit confused...

[Ashurie]

I am wanting to become a Catholic, but I have to wait until May to start RCIA. Anyway, I was talking to my dad today, and found out that I was christened under the Church of England - which I think is also known as the Anglican Church. Now finding this out, I still can’t take Communion, can’t I? I went to my first Mass today - it was so lovely.

 

[Oumashta]

I am wanting to become a Catholic, but I have to wait until May to start RCIA. Anyway, I was talking to my dad today, and found out that I was christened under the Church of England - which I think is also known as the Anglican Church. Now finding this out, I still can’t take Communion, can’t I? I went to my first Mass today - it was so lovely.

That’s so wonderful! Talk to the priest and ask him about the RCIA program.

From my understanding if you are Anglican you are not in full communion with the RC Church, so you cannot receive Catholic Communion until you have finished the RCIA. Also after you have received the Sacrament of Confirmation. But that’s just what I know Hope this helped. I also want to become Catholic but because my mother won’t allow me to… I can’t (at least until I’m older)

I know, isn’t the Mass beautiful? I felt the same way at my first Mass.

 

[Ohiomom]

That’s so wonderful! Talk to the priest and ask him about the RCIA program.

From my understanding if you are Anglican you are not in full communion with the RC Church, so you cannot receive Catholic Communion until you have finished the RCIA. Also after you have received the Sacrament of Confirmation. But that’s just what I know Hope this helped. I also want to become Catholic but because my mother won’t allow me to… I can’t (at least until I’m older)

I know, isn’t the Mass beautiful? I felt the same way at my first Mass.

Ashurie,

Oumashta is correct, you will be considered a candidate (for full communion) in RCIA since you have been baptised already, but since the Anglican church is not in full communion with the church, you will not be able to receive Our Lord until you are received into the church. You can still participate otherwise in mass and make a spiritual communion.

When I went through RCIA, I actually started attending mid-year though I had to wait until the next spring to enter the church. I knew I was going to become Catholic and just wanted to start learning more. Our previous church also had no problem with people attending the classes mid-year as our priests also viewed the classes as general adult enrichment in the faith. You might see if one of the parishes near you is open to your attending the classes.

Good luck to both of you.

 

[CB_Catholic]

That’s so wonderful! Talk to the priest and ask him about the RCIA program.

From my understanding if you are Anglican you are not in full communion with the RC Church, so you cannot receive Catholic Communion until you have finished the RCIA. Also after you have received the Sacrament of Confirmation. But that’s just what I know Hope this helped. I also want to become Catholic but because my mother won’t allow me to… I can’t (at least until I’m older)

I know, isn’t the Mass beautiful? I felt the same way at my first Mass.

The Sacrament of Confirmation is not necessary to receive the Eucharist, but Baptism is. It also is not required, as some seem to think, for receiving the Sacrament of Matrimony. Most children do not receive Confirmation (in the Western Church) until after they have received their First Communion. In past times, before RCIA, converts would be baptized and receive the Eucharist, but would often wait to be confirmed until the Bishop visited the parish to confirm the children and would receive the Sacrament then. That, however, was often overlooked.

Today, if one goes through the RCIA, they will receive all the Sacraments of Initiation. Once in a while, in my parish, there will be a person who never was confirmed, and that Sacrament will be administered to them at the Sunday Liturgy by the priest (under the authority of the Bishop) after instruction, or they may join the RCIA class for instruction and be confirmed at the Easter Vigil. The latter is fairly common in parishes. Some parishes don’t give this option, they require all to go through RCIA classes, but in my parish they are given the option for private instruction. Most choose to go through the RCIA classes for the catechesis.

But even though the OP has been properly Baptized, he still needs to be catechized and make a Profession of Faith before being fully received into the Church and receiving the other Sacraments.

 

[Ryan89]

Lucky for you several weeks ago the Anglican Church was welcomed back to Rome .

 

[Robert_Michael]

Lucky for you several weeks ago the Anglican Church was welcomed back to Rome .

Really?

 

[Ohiomom]

Lucky for you several weeks ago the Anglican Church was welcomed back to Rome .

Ryan, not quite. It was announced that the is now a formal process and invitation for Anglican congregations can request to be received into the Catholic church and for their pastors to request to be accepted and ordained as Catholic priests. This has already happened in the US in the past with some parishes which are now Anglican use Catholic parishes in full communion with Rome. The majority of the western Anglican communion (Episcopal Church here in the US) is continuing it’s march away from what has been historically taught and believed. ( I am condensing and don’t want to go off topic into contention- also note that God brought me to the Episcopal church on my way to the Tiber from a Baptist upbringing).

Anyway, here are some links regarding what the Vatican said and Roman Catholic Anglican use parish and a recent conversion of some formerly Anglican nuns in my area.

catholicculture.org/commentary/articles.cfm?id=350

I put the first part of the article in the above link below:

Pontiff to permit Anglican communities to join Catholic Church
October 20, 2009

Pope Benedict is promulgating an apostolic constitution that will permit Anglican communities whose members wish to be received into the Catholic Church to do so as communities.

The papal document allows for the creation of “personal ordinariates” to be headed by formerly Anglican priests, providing a structure within the Catholic hierarchy to supervise the pastoral care of Anglicans who have become Catholics. These “personal ordinariates” would be integrated into national episcopal conferences, but encouraged to preserve the distinctive aspects of the Anglican tradition

Two links from Roman Catholic anglican use parishes in Texas.

walsingham-church.org/

atonementonline.com/

Sisters near Baltimore, MD who, along with their chaplain, were received into full communion with the church in September. Not all of the sister’s swam the Tiber and their chaplain is in the process of discerning becoming a Catholic priest.

asspconvent.org/index.htm

 

[Ryan89]

Thanks for clearing that up for me Ohio. Good to know that it was simply an “invitation” because I was wondering what would happen to those who did not want to.

 

[Chatter163]

The Sacrament of Confirmation is not necessary to receive the Eucharist, but Baptism is. It also is not required, as some seem to think, for receiving the Sacrament of Matrimony.

This is misleading, because confirmation is expected to have been received prior to matrimony, and though canon law states that for a just cause it is not absolutely required, the canonical norm is that confirmation is celebrated prior to matrimony. It is not a matter of “some seem to think,” which flippantly suggests that people who advance this notion are somehow misinformed. They are not.

 

[quisysuc]

I accept with information:It was announced that the is now a formal process and invitation for Anglican congregations can request to be received into the Catholic church and for their pastors to request to be accepted and ordained as Catholic priests. This has already happened in the US in the past with some parishes which are now Anglican use Catholic parishes in full communion with Rome.