Question From Protestant

[CARose]

We recite the Nicence Creed rather than the Apostles’ Creed.

As a point of clarification, the Apostle’s Creed can be said for a Mass for Children, and we certainly pray it outside the liturgy. (wouldn’t want anyone to think we don’t believe in the Apostle’s Creed).

CARose

 

[lak611]

As a point of clarification, the Apostle’s Creed can be said for a Mass for Children, and we certainly pray it outside the liturgy. (wouldn’t want anyone to think we don’t beleive in the Apostle’s Creed).

CARose

Yes, I know that. I do pray the Apostle’s Creed regularly, but I have never attended a Mass that used it instead of the Nicene Creed (although it says right in the Missal that the Apostle’s Creed may be said instead of the Nicene Creed at children’s masses).

 

[Cristiano]

As a point of clarification, the Apostle’s Creed can be said for a Mass for Children, and we certainly pray it outside the liturgy. (wouldn’t want anyone to think we don’t believe in the Apostle’s Creed).

CARose

That is true for the USA. In other countries the Apostle’s Creed is used instead of the Nicene Creed.

 

[rr1213]

have never seen BCP, but my Daily Missal, besides the order of the Mass, and basic prayers, also has the rite for Baptism, the Rite for Confirmation, order for Funerals etc. Maybe it depends on the edition what is included. Is the BCP something the average “Anglican in the pews” would carry with them, or intended only for clergy? When I was a child in Catholic school we were required to have a St. Joseph missal and take it to Mass, it was the usual first Communion or Confirmation gift.

In the USA, the average Episcopalian would be very familiar with the Book of Common Prayer since it is used in every church service. The service liturgy is very majestic and moving, indeed many people believe that along with Shakespeare that the Book of Common Prayer is one of the most important influences on the modern English language.

Here is a cite with various versions of the BCP.

justus.anglican.org/resources/bcp/

For comparison purposes with the Catholic liturgy, I’d suggest going to Rite I (more traditional language) or Rite II (more modern language) of the BCP at these cites:

holycross-raleigh.org/bcp/323.html

holycross-raleigh.org/bcp/355.html

 

[Jerry-Jet]

How much does the Anglican Rite of the Catholic Church differ from Episcopal worship as reflected in the Book of Common Prayer?

 

[Manfred]

How much does the Anglican Rite of the Catholic Church differ from Episcopal worship as reflected in the Book of Common Prayer?

Episcopal worship does not regard its “Holy Communion” service as a SACRIFICE, as in the Catholic “Holy Sacrifice of the Mass”. As mentioned elswhere, Episcopalian orders are not valid because of the split with Rome during the Reformation. And, as with the other Protestant denominations, there is no Real Presence of Christ (Body, Blood, Soul, Divinity) in the Eucharist.

How close to “Catholic” are other denominations? Remember this: Catholics have:

The Body of Christ (Real Presence in the Eucharist),
The Mother of Christ (VENERATION, but not worship, of Mary),
The Vicar of Christ (the Pope).

I got these from the late Father Harold Cohen, S.J.

 

[lak611]

Now that is interesting.
Do the Catholics recite Apostle’s Creed during services and have responsive readings as the Methodists do?
WP

We don’t use the Apostle’s Creed, except in Masses for children. In our regular Sunday Masses, we use the Nicene Creeed. We always have a responsive reading (a responsorial Psalm in every Mass, Sunday or weekday). By the way, I am good friends with a Methodist minister who is married to a Catholic. He respects his wife’s beliefs and has never tried to convert her to his faith, nor has she tried to convert him to her faith! :bible1: