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jordananglo
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At the risk of disagreeing with Bernedette, I think that one of the driving forces in the pope’s decision to write the Apostolic Constitution is to introduce a diversity of forms within the Roman rite. There are then two possible routes this will take - one is that each party in the Church will assert the superiority of their own way, and this will eventually lead to fragmentation, or that the younger generation will be exposed to each of these forms and a kind of cross-pollination will occur. As people attend the different services, they will see things that they like or find helpful in the other rites, and seek to begin to incorporate them into their own way. Hopefully, this will gradually elevate the liturgical standards of the entire church. Also, by starting something new, the pope can legislate liturgical changes much more easily. There is no established precedent, so no one can gripe about changes. If the interested Anglicans don’t like the established rites, they simply don’t join, or join and deal with it. This is an extension of the pope’s style of leading by example, rather than sweeping liturgical changes.
Reform of the reform, led by Anglicans, naturally.
To answer Bernrdette’s question, yes, I occasionally post there, and yes, it is quiet now. I think we’re exhausted by all of this. Roll on the Ordinariate!