Any Anglicans / Episcopalians considering switching to RCC?

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Graceful_Lamb said:
I plan on converting to the RCC. I was going to be in RCIA this year for Easter Vigil 2016, but I backed out for personal reasons. I plan on going through RCIA for Easter Vigil 2017.

For me, I grew tired of the TEC and their liberalism (mainly SSM). I can’t continue to go to a church that teaches that SSM is okay. I also like the structure of the RCC, as well as the meaning of the Sacraments. Confession is another reason. One can confess in TEC, but that is rare. Confession is an ongoing Sacrament in the RCC. I have been going to a RCC with my RC husband for about a year now. I haven’t been to an EC in about four years.
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It make a lot of sense to me that former Episcopalians who have differing views on homosexuality than the Church proper would find a home with the Roman Catholics. I wish you continued love and peace on your path, Graceful_Lamb. Catholics are, as a rule, beautiful and devout. There is certainly worse spiritual company to keep.
 
Little_Sheep said:
It make a lot of sense to me that former Episcopalians who have differing views on homosexuality than the Church proper would find a home with the Roman Catholics. I wish you continued love and peace on your path, Graceful_Lamb. Catholics are, as a rule, beautiful and devout. There is certainly worse spiritual company to keep.
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I am still Episcopalian, but planning on being on the Tiber Swim Team 2017. Thanks for the well wishes. Same to you.
 
I feel like the rich young ruler, who when told by Christ that he must sell all of his possessions to follow Him, went away sad. I am wholly attached to my parish; the national organization means nothing. When I study the history of the English reformation, I am entirely on the side of Katherine, Mary, and St. Thomas More. If I were to move to another city, I would find conversion easy. All of my spiritual formation comes from Catholic and Orthodox sources, and my heart is definitely not protestant. I yearn for connection to the Ancient Faith. But for the moment, I am here, and I cannot bear the thought of leaving. My present rector makes it even harder by being a traditionalist, so the goings-on of the national organization have very little effect on us.
 
theropod said:
I can’t imagine these recent events having any impact. Mst of the movement/realignment has already occurred. Disaffected Episcopalians have had avenues within the Anglican tradition to escape for many years. Nothing really has changed. It’s not like some new innovation has occurred.
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Events sometimes “shake up” things and people.

I’m a bit shocked any time I hear someone say “I left Roman Catholicism because of the abuse scandals” … but on some level I’m sure there are many who would still be Catholic if it weren’t for those scandals."
 
Potter said:
I feel like the rich young ruler, who when told by Christ that he must sell all of his possessions to follow Him, went away sad. I am wholly attached to my parish; the national organization means nothing. When I study the history of the English reformation, I am entirely on the side of Katherine, Mary, and St. Thomas More. If I were to move to another city, I would find conversion easy. All of my spiritual formation comes from Catholic and Orthodox sources, and my heart is definitely not protestant. I yearn for connection to the Ancient Faith. But for the moment, I am here, and I cannot bear the thought of leaving. My present rector makes it even harder by being a traditionalist, so the goings-on of the national organization have very little effect on us.
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Good luck on your continuing journey.
 
What is strange in so many observations is the seeming lack of knowledge or indifference to Christ as recorded in the Sacred Scriptures.

Where is the realisation that the Christ emphatically established His Church with His chosen Peter to lead her?

**Jesus explicitly made four promises to Peter alone: **
“You are Peter and on this rock I will build My Church.” (Mt 16:18)
“The gates of hell will not prevail against it.”(Mt 16:18)
“I will give you the keys of the Kingdom of heaven." (Mt 16:19)
“Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven.” (Mt 16:19) [Later to the Twelve, also].

Sole authority:
“Strengthen your brethren.” (Lk 22:32)
“Feed My sheep.”(Jn 21:17).

Thus we see that Jesus very specifically formed His Church, and no other, on Peter the leader of the twelve Apostles. Further, the Sacred Scriptures emphasise:
The Church is “the pillar and bulwark of the truth (1 Tim 3:16).” St. Paul says also, “through the Church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places (Eph 3:10).” The Church teaches even the angels! This is with the authority of Christ!

“Beloved, do not trust every spirit but test the spirits to see whether they belong to God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.” (1 Jn 4:1). St John counsels: “We belong to God, and anyone who knows God listens to us, while anyone who does not belong to God refuses to hear us. This is how we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of deceit.” (1 Jn 4:6 ).

Jesus, having given His authority to St Peter, confirmed: “I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you." (John 14:15-18) “The Advocate, the Holy Spirit that the Father will send in My name, He will teach you everything and remind you of all that I told you.” (John 14:26) “But when He comes, the Spirit of truth, He will guide you to all truth. He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and will declare to you the things that are coming. He will glorify Me, because He will take from what is mine and declare it to you. Everything that the Father has is mine; for this reason I told you that He will take from what is mine and declare it to you.” (John 16:13-15).

Jesus warned dissenters: “if he refuses to hear even the Church let him be like the heathen and a publican.” (Mt 18:17).

Where is the hunger to follow the Christ as He has so clearly provided for us?
 
That’s great Abu, but I see nothing there about his successors and nothing about the infallibility of his successors. Might as well try that in an Eastern Orthodox thread.

But we are off topic now, right?
 
theropod said:
That’s great Abu, but I see nothing there about his successors and nothing about the infallibility of his successors. Might as well try that in an Eastern Orthodox thread.

But we are off topic now, right?
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I’m tempted to ask what you mean by that first part … But I have a feeling it’s just an Anglican habit to say “great”. :cool:
 
I used to be Church of England. I drifted away and went for a while without going to any church. Then I felt a call to go to church again and went back to my old church that I had gone to as a child. But there were things that were not right and that didn’t sit well with me. The services were essentially entertainment - a distinct lack of a feeling of worship as much as providing something for our own benefit, communion once a month, and active denial of any concept of the real presence. So I started going to Mass at a nearby Catholic church, partly I was looking for reverent worship, partly I was attracted by daily services, partly it was to do with looking for a church more in line with what I believed. After a few months I drove myself to confusion with my inability to decide where I belonged and what I believed and I fell away from going to any church at all.

Last year, I felt drawn to go back to church again. I decided pretty quickly that the Catholic Church is where I needed to be. Part of my decision was to do with the erosion of any sense of moral teaching or values in the CofE and the wider Anglican Communion. So I sought out the local Ordinariate Group, because I am very fond of the Book of Common Prayer - this was used for a mid-week service at my old church. I started attending Mass with the Ordinariate and got private instruction with the priest. About 3 months later I was received.
 
peter26 said:
I used to be Church of England. I drifted away and went for a while without going to any church. Then I felt a call to go to church again and went back to my old church that I had gone to as a child. But there were things that were not right and that didn’t sit well with me. The services were essentially entertainment - a distinct lack of a feeling of worship as much as providing something for our own benefit, communion once a month, and active denial of any concept of the real presence. So I started going to Mass at a nearby Catholic church, partly I was looking for reverent worship, partly I was attracted by daily services, **partly it was to do with looking for a church more in line with what I believed. **
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Be careful whom you say that in front of.
 
peter26 said:
I used to be Church of England. I drifted away and went for a while without going to any church. Then I felt a call to go to church again and went back to my old church that I had gone to as a child. But there were things that were not right and that didn’t sit well with me. The services were essentially entertainment - a distinct lack of a feeling of worship as much as providing something for our own benefit, communion once a month, and active denial of any concept of the real presence. So I started going to Mass at a nearby Catholic church, partly I was looking for reverent worship, partly I was attracted by daily services, partly it was to do with looking for a church more in line with what I believed. After a few months I drove myself to confusion with my inability to decide where I belonged and what I believed and I fell away from going to any church at all.

Last year, I felt drawn to go back to church again. I decided pretty quickly that the Catholic Church is where I needed to be. Part of my decision was to do with the erosion of any sense of moral teaching or values in the CofE and the wider Anglican Communion. So I sought out the local Ordinariate Group, because I am very fond of the Book of Common Prayer - this was used for a mid-week service at my old church. I started attending Mass with the Ordinariate and got private instruction with the priest. About 3 months later I was received.
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Thanks letting us in on your journey. If you would, please keep those of us on the path in your prayers.
 
Theropod #31
I see nothing there about his successors and nothing about the infallibility of his successors
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How strange that anyone would fantasise that Jesus had not considered successors to St Peter for His sole Church with the keys of the Kingdom of heaven, and did not provide infallibility for His own Church through St Peter and his Successors when he mandated: “I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you." (John 14:15-18) “The Advocate, the Holy Spirit that the Father will send in My name, He will teach you everything and remind you of all that I told you.” (John 14:26) **"But when He comes, the Spirit of truth, He will guide you to all truth.” **(John 16:13-15).

When a truth in the Church is challenged, She may deem it necessary to define it as dogma or doctrine. That infallibility conferred by the Christ was challenged by Gallicanism which became Conciliarism after the Great Western Schism, claiming the superiority of council over the Pope, and promoted by John Gerson (1363-1429) and Peter d’Ailly (1350-1420). The French Revolution drove the bishops into the arms of the Pope and dealt a mortal blow to Gallicanism, but the basic idea was still alive until the First Vatican Council formally condemned it in 1870.
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Actually, yes. This weekend was really sad and unsettling for me, as I consider myself on the ‘anglo-catholic’ side of the Episcopalian faith, and the traditional Anglican faith is what I love so much about my church. So to hear that, quite possibly, I could have that snatched away…it was upsetting.

Another frustration was that many Episcopal priests, for whatever reason, were on vacation this past weekend, mine included and also a good friend’s in another state. Im thinking its because Lent is so early and they need a break between then and Advent. So instead of going to church to hear ‘the sub’s’ explanation of last week’s decision, I found myself instead…at a Catholic mass.

Last summer when the decision to change the marriage canon was made, I was troubled. Because it seems like the point of a canon is…well, its unchangeable. What is there to have faith in when your faith is only as good as the latest vote?

The vote of the primates to reject our church (that’s how it feels) is also disappointing because it makes those of us who are more traditional feel doubly rejected. The more liberal minded want to change everything, and the traditionalists want to send us packing.

That combined with unease about the whole beginnings of our church in general, has had me seriously looking towards Rome. But like another poster said— my biggest hurdle is, I LOVE my parish. I love my priest. I love the people I’m around. But Im starting to more and more feel like the faith I personally adhere to is something fast going out of ‘style’. And its getting rather lonely…
 
peter26 said:
I used to be Church of England. I drifted away and went for a while without going to any church. Then I felt a call to go to church again and went back to my old church that I had gone to as a child. But there were things that were not right and that didn’t sit well with me. The services were essentially entertainment - a distinct lack of a feeling of worship as much as providing something for our own benefit, communion once a month, and active denial of any concept of the real presence. So I started going to Mass at a nearby Catholic church, partly I was looking for reverent worship, partly I was attracted by daily services, partly it was to do with looking for a church more in line with what I believed. After a few months I drove myself to confusion with my inability to decide where I belonged and what I believed and I fell away from going to any church at all.

Last year, I felt drawn to go back to church again. I decided pretty quickly that the Catholic Church is where I needed to be. Part of my decision was to do with the erosion of any sense of moral teaching or values in the CofE and the wider Anglican Communion. So I sought out the local Ordinariate Group, because I am very fond of the Book of Common Prayer - this was used for a mid-week service at my old church. I started attending Mass with the Ordinariate and got private instruction with the priest. About 3 months later I was received.
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I really appreciate you sharing your experience here. If I could ask, did your being received into the RC through the ordinariate require a re-confirmation, or does the RC accept your confirmation in the Anglican church as legitimate? I appreciate any insight you can provide!
 
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