Ecumenical Christmas wishes

[Lindsay54]

All you glorious souls out there!

I was born and brought up, and ever more shall be so, an Anglican. But I have the deepest sympathy for and with my RC brethren, and of course at this season would like to register my heartfelt wishes to you all.

We sing (literally) from the same hymn-sheet, do we not?

God bless ye all.

Lindsay

 

[ClearWater]

Isn’t that sweet?! Likewise! Merry Christmas to you, and yours, too!

God bless ye!

 

[Mount_Carmel]

All you glorious souls out there!

I was born and brought up, and ever more shall be so, an Anglican. But I have the deepest sympathy for and with my RC brethren, and of course at this season would like to register my heartfelt wishes to you all.

We sing (literally) from the same hymn-sheet, do we not?

God bless ye all.

Lindsay

Hmmn, the tone/message of/in your post is interesting. While I thank you for the fraternal Christmas greetings and your blessing I do have reservations about the literality of ‘singing from the same hymn sheet’ these days; what with Martin Luther and rejections of chunks of the Bible, Henry VIII and his spurious politics, and modifications to obligations and clergy and the like that have gone on over time. [Oh, and we Catholics still cannot marry into the royal family, not that I would particularly wish to. I wonder what the position is in the case of the marriage question with those of other faiths?]

What is the nature of your deepest sympathy towards we Catholics?

All that being said, I wish you and the Anglican communion a Happy and Holy Christmas.

 

[tawny]

All you glorious souls out there!

I was born and brought up, and ever more shall be so, an Anglican. But I have the deepest sympathy for and with my RC brethren, and of course at this season would like to register my heartfelt wishes to you all.

We sing (literally) from the same hymn-sheet, do we not?

God bless ye all.

Lindsay

Sympathy? Interesting choice of words. Singing from the same hymn-sheet? Where does Transubstantiation fit into that hymn-sheet?

 

[pollylodges]

Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name.

Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

Amen.

†

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.

Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb Jesus.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.

Amen.

†

 

[cheezey]

All you glorious souls out there!

I was born and brought up, and ever more shall be so, an Anglican. But I have the deepest sympathy for and with my RC brethren, and of course at this season would like to register my heartfelt wishes to you all.

We sing (literally) from the same hymn-sheet, do we not?

God bless ye all.

Lindsay

Thank you and God bless for this prayer thread

Praying for peace for and amongst All of His children.

 

[JMJ_Telcontar]

Merry Christmas to you.

Praying that the Lord may bless you during this season.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen

 

[244Rocket]

Thanks and God bless.

 

[Lindsay54]

Sympathy? Interesting choice of words. Singing from the same hymn-sheet? Where does Transubstantiation fit into that hymn-sheet?

Dear all

Do please savour the poetry in prose of Cranmer’s words (the 1549 Book of Common Prayer):

We do not presume to come to this, thy table, o merciful Lord, trusting in our own righteousness, but in thy manifold and great goodness. We are not worthy so much as to pick up the crumbs under thy table. But thou art the same Lord, whose property is always to have mercy. Grant us therefore, gracious Lord, so to eat the flesh of thy dear Son Jesus Christ, and to drink his blood, that our sinful bodies may be made clean by his body, and our souls washed through his most precious blood, and that we may evermore dwell in him, and he in us.

How close does this come to the received Catholic formulation of transubstantiation?

Incidentally, Roman Catholic brothers and sisters from our local church came in the rain to sing carols together outside a local supermarket, and we all thought it great.

Genuinely, in nomine Domini…

Lindsay

 

[Mount_Carmel]

Lindsay - Anglican belief in Transubstantiation by and large is only adhered to by a ‘high church’ minority these days:

Some Anglicans (especially Anglo-Catholics and some other High Church Anglicans) accept transubstantiation while most Anglicans do not. In any case, nowadays even Church of England clergy are only required to assent that the 39 Articles have borne witness to the Christian faith.

The Lutherans are pretty much universal in rejecting literal Transubstantiation and lean more towards it being an act of commemoration/memorial with spiritual overtones.