Anglican Use liturgy for Catholics coming to Kansas City

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KANSAS CITY - A new organization has formed in Kansas City called the Society of Our Lady of Hope offering guidance, comfort and support to local Anglican Communion members who wish to become Catholics.

Beginning Sunday, September 7 and continuing through November, society members will celebrate the Liturgy of the Word each week at St. Therese Little Flower parish in Kansas City using the Book of Divine Worship - the Catholic Church-approved liturgy for Catholics with an Episcopalian or Anglican background.

Each week until December 1, the first Sunday of Advent, the liturgy will be followed by a talk on some aspect of the Catholic faith. If all goes as planned, the full Anglican Use Mass will begin on that date at St. Therese’s…Read More
 
i see this as positive. it is a way to introduce the episcopalian or the anglican into the roman catholic church.

hopefully, other cities might follow the model set forth at this church in kansas city.

i don’t know what the Book of Divine Worship is like. i would like to see how it differs from the roman catholic mass.

i was in the episcopal church for so many years and i think this could probably bring more people to the roman catholic church. especially the episcopalians and anglicans who are a little discontented with their own churches at the moment. i definitely would have checked it out if it would have been available when i was a teenager or in my 20’s.
 
thanks for the link. i believe in will catch on in the bigger cities anyway where there will be a need for it.

i just jumped straight in to the roman catholic church. i am happy i did, however, if i ever get the chance, i would like to attend an anglican use mass and see how it differs from the roman catholic mass.

i hope it will draw more people to the roman catholic church.
 
I have belonged to the first Anglican Use personal parish (www.atonementonline.com) for 15 years now. The Mass and other devotions are absolutely breathtakingly beautiful. We also have a school, with daily Mass for the entire student body
  • even when we were in the midst of an expansion project and it was standing room only
  • even when the deafening sound of jackhammers made it a real challenge to follow the homily
The students and faculty absolutely LOVE this parish and school. The pastor is 110% dedicated to the parish and school, and even has his office next to the front door of the school building so as to be readily accessible.

If you can attend an Anglican Use liturgy, you will be quite comfortable as a Catholic. The prayers from the Book of Divine Worship (or the BDW as we call it) are thoroughly Catholic and very reverent.

Go, Kansas!
 
thanks for the link sister mm. what a beautiful church!!

it would be so wonderful if this could draw more episcopalians and anglicans to the catholic church.

i certainly hope this spreads to other catholic churches around the country.
i live here in arizona and i know of a former episcopal priest who has left the episcopal church and will be ordained the end of 2009 and he wants to focus on the anglican use rite. he was confirmed into the Catholic church last year and has to live as a roman catholic for 2 years before he is ordained.
 
It sounds like your church is doing well. But after years there are what - 6 or 7 Anglican Use parishes? Several groups have disappeared as the once Anglican Use community in Las Vegas.

This seems a totally unrealistic path forward IMO. What happens when the pastor dies and there is no Anglican priest convert to replace him? Does your parish convert to the latin Rite? Who owns your parish? I’ve read that stopped many from coming in - having to give up corporal ownership to the latin Rite bishop.

On top of which it seems the Anglo-Catholic wing is really tiny and shrinking.

Its the evangelical Anglicans in Africa with whom several dioceses in the US have aligned that will IMO become the rival to the English based Anglican church.

All the rumors, all the threats before Lambeth? Nothing came of it. Those hoping for any significant conversion of Anglicans to Catholicsm are fooling themselves IMO.
 
i think you are correct. there was a lot of talk, but little action behind the words. they aren’t too interested in submitting to Rome i don’t think.
 
rien said:
It sounds like your church is doing well. But after years there are what - 6 or 7 Anglican Use parishes? Several groups have disappeared as the once Anglican Use community in Las Vegas.
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And what can you share with us about the disappeared groups and why they disappeared? Were they sustainable and growing? Why are they no longer around? What are the difficulties you have experienced in keeping a tiny parish afloat? What are you thinking this indicates?
rien said:
This seems a totally unrealistic path forward IMO. What happens when the pastor dies and there is no Anglican priest convert to replace him? Does your parish convert to the latin Rite? Who owns your parish? I’ve read that stopped many from coming in - having to give up corporal ownership to the latin Rite bishop.
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If that is the case, that giving up the deed to the Latin ordinary has stopped them from coming in, this might not be the worst hurdle put out there. Are you familiar at all with the trusteeship debates and schisms in the Greek Catholic Church and within American Orthodoxy? “We love you but we keep the key and take our show on the road when we are ready” is no marriage at all.
rien said:
On top of which it seems the Anglo-Catholic wing is really tiny and shrinking.
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This I grant… But Romanian Catholics have a nation-wide eparchy of 17 parishes… None of them all that large either. It isn’t about having millions - it is about having sustainable communities.
rien said:
Its the evangelical Anglicans in Africa with whom several dioceses in the US have aligned that will IMO become the rival to the English based Anglican church.
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I really don’t believe this is going to be the case. I know of one gent who was with the Akinola affiliated group here in the US… In the end, some of his congregation went Evangelical, some went Catholic. Reinventing the wheel in recreating ecclesial structures was exciting for some founding members… But it was unattractive to bringing in the unchurched.
rien said:
All the rumors, all the threats before Lambeth? Nothing came of it. Those hoping for any significant conversion of Anglicans to Catholicsm are fooling themselves IMO.
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All those rumors and threats that happened way back… oh… months ago?

The book is not finished being written on that one. Keep them in your prayers.
 
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