Information on Episcopal Church

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Deo Volente:
Also, consider that Anglican orders are seen as valid by the Orthodox church
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“Validity” is not an Orthodox concept. 🙂
meaning that in most cases, an Anglican priest converting to Orthodoxy would not be re-consecrated.
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*Every * Anglican priest is ordained when he enters Orthodoxy, if the Orthodox bishop receving him desires him to become a priest. If he doesn’t the Anglican priest is simply received as a layman.
 
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mercygate:
. . . and my “High” Episcopal Church congregation was nearly all disaffected Catholics who couldn’t stomach the changes after Vatican II. We accepted every Catholic doctrine, except some accepted contraception: many did not. We even believed in Papal *primacy *though not *supremacy. *That congregation has a big festal celebration of the Assumption on August 15 every year and celebrates the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. They have votive candles at the shrines of Our Lady, St. Anthony of Padua, and St. Joseph. There is a near-life size statue of the Sacred Heart above the centrally placed Tabernacle. They kneel at the communion rail to receive the Eucharist – on the tongue.

When I became Catholic, I cried for months because in order to become authentically Catholic, I had to leave the “catholic” cultural world of my Anglican parish for an experience on Sundays which can best be described as “Eucharist – the musical!” at St. Watchamacallit Catholic Church of the suburbs . . .
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Pardon my hamfistedness. I only really got into the church recently although I had been born and raised catholic. I was born in 1982 and I never had any experience with the pre-vatican II church. When I started getting interested in the church and prior to making the commitment to actually getting back into the church, I became very interested in traditional catholicism and it saddened me that so much of it has been let go and is actually looked down upon by many people.

I love the church I attend now, however, and I am free to partake in as many traditional devotions in private as I would like. I am still hoping for a renewal of the liturgy that incorporate more traditional elements and perhaps more latin.
 
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