Can a non-Anglican/Episcopalian become an Anglican Use Catholic?

[x1980x]

I understand that “Anglican Use” is closer to Opus Dei than a separate Church (i.e. it is not equal to the Greek Catholic Church).

What exactly does it mean for a non-clergy Latin-rite Catholic to be an Anglican Use Catholic? Does it apply only to the extent that a lay Anglican Use Catholic is any lay Latin Catholic that belongs to an Anglican Use parish, or are individual followers imbued with some sort of personal “Anglicanness” that follows them around?

Can a non-Anglican Protestant convert to Anglican Use Catholicism without first converting to Anglicanism/Episcopalianism? I love the Episcopalians, love their services and liturgy, attend their Mass occasionally (yes, I understand that it is invalid according to Catholic teaching), but have never been “one of them” formally. Obviously one should not convert to a faith just to use it as a stepping stone to another, such as a Protestant that was interested in Eastern Catholicism should not first convert to Orthodoxy (making false promises of faith to the Orthodox communion), just to make it easier to be accepted as an Eastern Catholic.

 

[MarcusAndreas]

From what I have heard, unless you converted with your Anglican-use parish, you may not. But you can still go to an Anglican-use parish if you want to.

 

[Matthew_Holford]

I understand that “Anglican Use” is closer to Opus Dei than a separate Church (i.e. it is not equal to the Greek Catholic Church).

The Anglicans who have come into the Catholic Church en masse have been received into structures called Personal Ordinariates. As far as I am aware this is a new structure created for these circumstances by His Holiness Benedict PP XVI. Opus Dei are a Personal Prelature, a structure catered for in the Code of Canon Law 1983. The Personal Ordinariates that Anglicans are being received into are similar to dioceses. They are not new churches. Anglicans received will become part of the Latin (Roman) Catholic Church sui iuris.

What exactly does it mean for a non-clergy Latin-rite Catholic to be an Anglican Use Catholic? Does it apply only to the extent that a lay Anglican Use Catholic is any lay Latin Catholic that belongs to an Anglican Use parish, or are individual followers imbued with some sort of personal “Anglicanness” that follows them around?

The new Personal Ordinariates for Anglicans will preserve some of the Anglican heritage but it will conform to the doctrines and teachings of the Latin Catholic Church.

Can a non-Anglican Protestant convert to Anglican Use Catholicism without first converting to Anglicanism/Episcopalianism? I love the Episcopalians, love their services and liturgy, attend their Mass occasionally (yes, I understand that it is invalid according to Catholic teaching), but have never been “one of them” formally. Obviously one should not convert to a faith just to use it as a stepping stone to another, such as a Protestant that was interested in Eastern Catholicism should not first convert to Orthodoxy (making false promises of faith to the Orthodox communion), just to make it easier to be accepted as an Eastern Catholic.

Former Anglicans can join these Personal Ordinariates. I do not think that those who are already Catholics can join one. Their sacraments, liturgy, etc. is all valid so any Catholic would be able to go to an Anglican Use liturgy and if this was say Mass on a Sunday it would fulfil their obligation. I don’t know if Protestants coming into the Catholic Church could join a Anglican Personal Ordinariate.

 

[AndyP2010]

I understand that “Anglican Use” is closer to Opus Dei than a separate Church (i.e. it is not equal to the Greek Catholic Church).

What exactly does it mean for a non-clergy Latin-rite Catholic to be an Anglican Use Catholic? Does it apply only to the extent that a lay Anglican Use Catholic is any lay Latin Catholic that belongs to an Anglican Use parish, or are individual followers imbued with some sort of personal “Anglicanness” that follows them around?

Can a non-Anglican Protestant convert to Anglican Use Catholicism without first converting to Anglicanism/Episcopalianism? I love the Episcopalians, love their services and liturgy, attend their Mass occasionally (yes, I understand that it is invalid according to Catholic teaching), but have never been “one of them” formally. Obviously one should not convert to a faith just to use it as a stepping stone to another, such as a Protestant that was interested in Eastern Catholicism should not first convert to Orthodoxy (making false promises of faith to the Orthodox communion), just to make it easier to be accepted as an Eastern Catholic.

If you live in the U. S. the ordinariate hasn’t be set up here yet. There is nothing I can think of to stop you from joining the church through an existing Anglican Use parish. What rules the ordinariate in the U.S. will have remains to be seen.

 

[AntalKalnoky]

If you live in the U. S. the ordinariate hasn’t be set up here yet. There is nothing I can think of to stop you from joining the church through an existing Anglican Use parish. What rules the ordinariate in the U.S. will have remains to be seen.

I’ve heard that a few States and Canadian Provinces set up a joint Ordianate for Anglican>Catholic; don’t have time to document. Anglican has been the Requirement.

 

[turtle18]

If you are Protestant, just convert to Roman Catholicism and then go to an Anglican-use rite. You can convert in the Latin Rite or the Eastern Rite (if this rite is in use in your area.)

You convert to Catholicism first and then decide which rite you are going to.

Any Roman Catholic can go to any rites as long as it is in the umbrella of the Roman Catholic Church.

 

[Digitonomy]

If you are Protestant, just convert to Roman Catholicism and then go to an Anglican-use rite. You can convert in the Latin Rite or the Eastern Rite (if this rite is in use in your area.)

You convert to Catholicism first and then decide which rite you are going to.

Any Roman Catholic can go to any rites as long as it is in the umbrella of the Roman Catholic Church.

Yes, but not any Roman Catholic can get married in, or have their child celebrate baptism, corfirmation, or first communion in an Anglican use church.

 

[Chatter163]

I’ve heard that a few States and Canadian Provinces set up a joint Ordianate for Anglican>Catholic; don’t have time to document. Anglican has been the Requirement.

No, nothing has been set up yet. In his report to the American bishops last month, Cardinal Wuerl, currently in charge of the Anglican Use iniatative in this country, stated that the announcement of the ordinariate here, is planned, but not yet definitely, in late fall.

 

[MarkBrown]

I understand that “Anglican Use” is closer to Opus Dei than a separate Church (i.e. it is not equal to the Greek Catholic Church).

What exactly does it mean for a non-clergy Latin-rite Catholic to be an Anglican Use Catholic? Does it apply only to the extent that a lay Anglican Use Catholic is any lay Latin Catholic that belongs to an Anglican Use parish, or are individual followers imbued with some sort of personal “Anglicanness” that follows them around?

Can a non-Anglican Protestant convert to Anglican Use Catholicism without first converting to Anglicanism/Episcopalianism? I love the Episcopalians, love their services and liturgy, attend their Mass occasionally (yes, I understand that it is invalid according to Catholic teaching), but have never been “one of them” formally. Obviously one should not convert to a faith just to use it as a stepping stone to another, such as a Protestant that was interested in Eastern Catholicism should not first convert to Orthodoxy (making false promises of faith to the Orthodox communion), just to make it easier to be accepted as an Eastern Catholic.

Per Anglicanorum Coetibus

§4 The Ordinariate is composed of lay faithful, clerics and members of Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, originally belonging to the Anglican Communion and now in full communion with the Catholic Church, or those who receive the Sacraments of Initiation within the jurisdiction of the Ordinariate.

Per this paragraph of section one, protestants can convert from a protestant background directly into the Ordinariate. AU parish in existence today are a mix of cradle catholics, former Anglicans/Episcopalians, former protestants and those who come from no or other than Christian backgrounds.

Go to www.theanglocatholic.com to look for an AU or a forming parish/mission near you.

Mark