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Catholic4Jesus
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Can any Latin Rite priest celebrate the Anglican Use Liturgy or is it only for former Anglican ministers (who are reordained Catholic priests) and their converting parishes?
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FrDavid96
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Only Anglican-use Catholic* priests (Ordinariate and Pastoral Provision) can be the main celebrants. Any other Catholic priest can join as a concelebrant.
Under certain circumstances, it might be possible for other Latin Rite priests to obtain permission to celebrate that form (for example, if two communities share the same building); but absent any special permissions, they cannot simply do this on their own initiative.
And by the way, they are not “reordained.” They are ordained for the first time. It might not seem like much, two simple letters, but the theological implications are extremely important. The Church does not re-ordain priests. The Church ordains men to the priesthood who were never ordained as priests. Ordination imparts an indelible mark on the soul, and the sacrament can never be repeated in the same degree. A deacon can be ordained a priest, but a priest can never be re-ordained as a priest.
*Admittedly, we need a new vocabulary here. There is not yet an established vocabulary to describe “former Anglicans who are now Catholic, but who still retain their Anglican liturgical heritage.” Whatever terms we use just don’t capture the nuances.
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ChurchSoldier
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To my understanding, the Ordinariate Priests are only authorized to say the Anglican Rite or Novus Ordo, but not the Etraordinary Form. This was as of a couple of years ago, it may have changed.
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FrDavid96
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They can use either Missal, Ordinary or Extraordinary. From the very start, Pope Benedict made it clear that all priests of the Latin Rite can use the E.F.
First, from Summorum Pontificum, July 2007
Art 1. The Roman Missal promulgated by Pope Paul VI is the ordinary expression of the lex orandi (rule of prayer) of the Catholic Church of the Latin rite. The Roman Missal promulgated by Saint Pius V and revised by Blessed John XXIII is nonetheless to be considered an extraordinary expression of the same lex orandi of the Church and duly honoured for its venerable and ancient usage. These two expressions of the Church’s lex orandi will in no way lead to a division in the Church’s lex credendi (rule of faith); for they are two usages of the one Roman rite.
And then later from Anglicanorum Coetibus, November 2009
III. Without excluding liturgical celebrations according to the Roman Rite, the Ordinariate has the faculty to celebrate the Holy Eucharist and the other Sacraments, the Liturgy of the Hours and other liturgical celebrations according to the liturgical books proper to the Anglican tradition…
Underlining added to both.
His use of the term “Roman Rite” cannot be an accident. If he meant to say only the Missal of 1970, he would have made that clear, rather than use the specific term “Roman Rite;” a term which absorbed a whole new level of meaning from Summorum Pontificum. In other words, if he meant to exclude Anglican-use priests from the Extraordinary Form, he would have been contradicting himself (first, it’s a usage of the Roman Rite, later it isn’t).
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YoungTradCath
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No, they can celebrate Mass in the EF.
In my opinion the Anglicanized versions of the Roman Rite (I will call them that for now) are a great enrichment to the Roman Rite.
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codefro
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Amen to that!
Or as a deacon or subdeacon. Here in Calgary, the Ordinariate parish here does not practice concelebration. They do, however, let diocesan priests stand as either deacon or subdeacon from time to time.
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Deo_Gratias42
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Priests from Anglican Use Ordinariates are Latin Rite priests, and as such are free to celebrate Mass in the OF, EF and Anglican Use. Other Latin Rite priests may celebrate Mass according to the Anglican Use Liturgy with permission from his ordinary.
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Deo_Gratias42
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Likewise, their Pastor fills in as Deacon for the EF sometimes.
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