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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face="Courier New">My prayer is that they will be well
catechized. Even the most conservative Anglican is far from understanding
the teachings of the One True Church and why it is impossible to be both
Anglican and Catholic. Anglicans are very strongly protestant --
the bells, the smells, the costumes notwithstanding. </FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face="Courier New">I called myself Anglo-Catholic for decades
and had to shed that painfully erroneous image of Catholicism. Our parish,
Good Shepherd Anglo-Catholic Church -- now Good Shepherd Catholic Church
-- was instructed by Fr. Dan McCaffrey, a priest and
theologian. Without that kind of strong teacher and classic instruction,
Anglicans will remain in a sad state of perpetual confusion even if they
convert. (No need to multiply the sad state of confusion of the many
poorly catechized cradle Catholics.) </FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face="Courier New">The Tutor Rite, which is approved for
bi-ritual parishes of former Anglicans, doesn't thrill me. It is based on
the 1979 Revised Book of Common Prayer, Rite I. I'd like to see these
former Anglicans just assimilate into the Church and drop their external
attachments to the "Thee-s and Thou-s" of Cranmerian language. On a
personal note, when I became Catholic, I wanted to shed all vestiges of
Anglicanism and just be a happy Roman Catholic. As the saying goes, When in Rome
. . .</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, July 17, 2008 2:52 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> "A truly remarkable development"</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<H2 class=date-header>Thursday, July 17, 2008</H2>
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<H3 class="post-title entry-title"><A
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truly remarkable development"</A> </H3>
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<DIV class="post-body entry-content">After focusiing for a few weeks now on all
the <A
href="http://deacbench.blogspot.com/2008/07/everybody-slide-down-and-make-extra.html"><FONT
color=#940f04>turmoil</FONT></A> roiling the Anglican Communion in England,
Damien Thompson has found <A
href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/damian_thompson/blog/2008/07/16/exanglican_communities_to_become_catholic_rome_confirms"><FONT
color=#940f04>some big news</FONT></A> on the other side of the pond. In New
Jersey, in fact:
<BLOCKQUOTE>The Catholic Church will expand its provision of "Anglican Use"
parishes in the United States in order to allow whole communities of
traditionalist Anglicans into the Roman fold, a senior Catholic archbishop has
announced.<BR><BR>The Most Rev John J Myers, Archbishop of Newark and
Ecclesiastical Delegate for the Pastoral Provision, told a conference of
ex-Anglicans on Friday that "we are working on expanding the mandate of the
Pastoral Provision [of Catholic parishes using Anglican-inspired services] to
include those clergy and faithful of 'continuing Anglican
communities'.<BR><BR>"We are striving to increase awareness of our apostolate
to Anglican Christians who desire to be reconciled with the Holy See. We have
experienced the wonder of several Episcopal bishops entering into full
communion with the Catholic Church and we continue to receive requests from
priests and laity about the Pastoral Provision."<BR><BR>This is big news, and
makes nonsense of the claim that Pope Benedict wants to dissuade
Anglo-Catholics from converting. The obvious interpretation of the
Archbishop's words is that the Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC), a
"continuing church" which has hundreds of thousands of members worldwide
(though few in the UK), will eventually be given its own Catholic parishes
which use a Eucharistic Prayer incorporating Cranmerian language.<BR><BR>This
possibility has existed since the 1970s, but Archbishop Myers indicates that
it is only now - under a sympathetic Pope, and during the break-up of the
Anglican Communion - that the Pastoral Provision is entering a new
dimension.<BR><BR>If Rome is expanding its network of ex-Anglican parishes in
America, then we can rest assured that it is sympathetic to the notion of
group conversion in England. The Vatican is well aware that such a process is
likely to be complicated and patchy; no one is naive enough to assume that
entire parishes will "bring their buildings with them." </BLOCKQUOTE>Thompson
calls this "a truly remarkable development." Let's keep the prayers going.
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<DIV><EM><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000bf>Like a deer that longs
for running waters so my soul longs for you, O
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