Personal Ordinariate for former Anglicans in the USA

[davidc2]

The Personal Ordinariate of The Chair of Saint Peter was erected for groups of former Anglican clergy and faithful within the USA.

Fr. Jeffrey Neil Steenson was named its first Ordinary.

 

[davidc2]

Their website is now online too.

 

[YoungTradCath]

We’re beginning to take back what Henry VIII stole.

 

[beckers]

My parish is the official church for the chair. So exciting!!!

 

[Usbek_de_Perse]

**Nothing will keep Anglicans away more than this kind of triumphalist nonsense. **

The more of it I read, the less I want to be Catholic (and I really do think I am going in the direction of converting).

What Henry VIII did was to set in motion a movement that has enriched Christendom far beyond its numbers. The Book of Common Prayer casts a long shadow over all English language religious language and liturgy. Its influences over the new ICEL translation of the Roman Missal are unmistakable. There is hardly a Christian denomination (including, of course, the Roman Catholic Church) that does not use language from the BCP.

In addition, in returning to the Catholic Church, we bring what Anglicans have developed for over four centuries, including rich music, liturgical beauty, and a respect for the solemnity of the sacraments sometimes lacking in Catholic churches.

The Catholic Church will be richer for this. It will be better than if Henry had not “stolen” whatever he is supposed to have stolen.

We’re beginning to take back what Henry VIII stole.

 

[Usbek_de_Perse]

Yes, well, I shouldn’t have let it take the joy out of today’s announcement.

 

[ringil]

For Rome, this was done at break-neck speed!!

 

[Dirt]

**Nothing will keep Anglicans away more than this kind of triumphalist nonsense. **

The more of it I read, the less I want to be Catholic (and I really do think I am going in the direction of converting).

What Henry VIII did was to set in motion a movement that has enriched Christendom far beyond its numbers. The Book of Common Prayer casts a long shadow over all English language religious language and liturgy. Its influences over the new ICEL translation of the Roman Missal are unmistakable. There is hardly a Christian denomination (including, of course, the Roman Catholic Church) that does not use language from the BCP.

In addition, in returning to the Catholic Church, we bring what Anglicans have developed for over four centuries, including rich music, liturgical beauty, and a respect for the solemnity of the sacraments sometimes lacking in Catholic churches.

The Catholic Church will be richer for this. It will be better than if Henry had not “stolen” whatever he is supposed to have stolen.

Other than the fact that St. Thomas More, St. John Fisher and the hundreds of Priests that were martyred For the True Faith will not have died in vain! And in all charity and humility, i do not know if Cranmer’s ideology is what the Catholic Church really needs.

 

[Usbek_de_Perse]

I said nothing of Cranmer’s ideology or his theology. I am not in love with its Calvinism. I speak of his translations, and his amazing, truly amazing liturgical compositions, many of which find their way into approved Roman Catholic service books. Read his collect for the First Sunday in Advent and for Christmas Day for excellent examples.

Please remember that Bishops Latimer and Ridley were martyred by being burned at the stake in Oxford, just in front of Balliol College, and that Archbishop Cranmer was made to watch. He was later martyred at the same place.

There were far too many deaths at the hands of authorities (including Thomas More himself, let us not forget who burned his own share of heretics) in a time when killing your adversaries was good politics and theology. The true faith, and the perogotives of the papacy were being manipulated by politicians and popes in a time when good and decent men could well confuse this manipulation with theological error.

There is no need, in this time of progress toward Christian unity, to revisit those dark days with a political purpose.

Other than the fact that St. Thomas More, St. John Fisher and the hundreds of Priests that were martyred For the True Faith will not have died in vain! And in all charity and humility, i do not know if Cranmer’s ideology is what the Catholic Church really needs.

 

[rlg94086]

There is no need, in this time of progress toward Christian unity, to revisit those dark days with a political purpose.

How do you picture “Christian unity” occurring? If we are to be one Church again, it will be Catholic. I see nothing about incorporating the Anglican Use into the Catholic Church as negative. There is only one, true Church.