[Apologetics] Re: "A truly remarkable development"

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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. 

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.) 

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 . . .

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From: Dianne Dawson 
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 2:52 PM
To: Apologetics Group ; Holly Gatling ; English Morris 
Subject: "A truly remarkable development"


http://deacbench.blogspot.com/2008/07/truly-remarkable-development.html
Thursday, July 17, 2008
"A truly remarkable development" 
After focusiing for a few weeks now on all the turmoil roiling the Anglican Communion in England, Damien Thompson has found some big news on the other side of the pond. In New Jersey, in fact: 
  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.

  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'.

  "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."

  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.

  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.

  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." 
Thompson calls this "a truly remarkable development." Let's keep the prayers going. 
Posted by Deacon Greg Kandra at 11:36 AM   

 
Like a deer that longs for running waters so my soul longs for you, O God.
Ps 42:1


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