A great rejoicing and a time for choosing
Posted by Patricia Cecilia in Anglicanism, Anglo-Catholic, Catholicism, faith
Today the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith announced the imminent promulgation of an Apostolic Constitution which will create a ordinariate within the Catholic Church for Anglicans/Anglo-Catholics/Episcopalians who wish to convert to Catholicism but maintain certain elements of the Anglican worship tradition: read it here.
This probably means very little to most of the world, but to Anglicans around the world, it is the opened arms of the father of the prodigal son of Our Lord's parable. Much prayer and discernment and decision-making remain, but a choice has been offered in great love.
Thank you, our gracious and beloved Pontiff, Pope Benedict XVI. Ut unim sint!
Thanks be to Thee, O Lord our God.
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- Patricia Cecilia
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- A faithful daughter of the Church, wife, mother, traditional liturgical musician/singer/conductor/flutist/private teacher, needleworker and sometime rosary maker/repairer. My past includes college professor, private school administrator, homeschool mom...my future is in the hands of Our Lord!
The Successor of St. Peter speaks
As for the use of the 1962 Missal as a Forma extraordinaria of the liturgy of the Mass, I would like to draw attention to the fact that this Missal was never juridically abrogated and, consequently, in principle, was always permitted.
… it has clearly been demonstrated that young persons too have discovered this liturgical form, felt its attraction and found in it a form of encounter with the Mystery of the Most Holy Eucharist, particularly suited to them.
What earlier generations held as sacred, remains sacred and great for us too, and it cannot be all of a sudden entirely forbidden or even considered harmful.
… it has clearly been demonstrated that young persons too have discovered this liturgical form, felt its attraction and found in it a form of encounter with the Mystery of the Most Holy Eucharist, particularly suited to them.
What earlier generations held as sacred, remains sacred and great for us too, and it cannot be all of a sudden entirely forbidden or even considered harmful.
— Benedict XVI,
Letter to Bishops
concerning his Motu Proprio
«Summorum Pontificum» (7/7/2007)
Letter to Bishops
concerning his Motu Proprio
«Summorum Pontificum» (7/7/2007)
Ut unum sint
The Collect for the Unity of the Church, Removal of Schism and Return of Separated Christians
O GOD, Who dost correct what has gone astray and gatherest together what is scattered, and keepest what Thou hast gathered together, we beseech Thee in Thy mercy to pour down upon Christian people the grace of union with Thee, that putting aside disunion and attaching themselves to the true shepherd of Thy Church, they may be able to render Thee due service. Through Our Lord Jesus Christ Thy Son, Who with Thee liveth and reigneth in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. Amen.
The Collect for the Anglican Use
O HOLY Ghost the Lord, who on Pentecost gavest the Church the gift of tongues that Christ might be known, loved and served by peoples of divers nations and customs: watch over the Anglican heritage within thy Church, we pray thee, that, led by thy guidance and strengthened by thy grace, that Use may find such favor in thy sight that its people may increase both in holiness and number, and so show forth thy glory; who livest and reignest with the Father and the Son, one God world without end. Amen.
O GOD, Who dost correct what has gone astray and gatherest together what is scattered, and keepest what Thou hast gathered together, we beseech Thee in Thy mercy to pour down upon Christian people the grace of union with Thee, that putting aside disunion and attaching themselves to the true shepherd of Thy Church, they may be able to render Thee due service. Through Our Lord Jesus Christ Thy Son, Who with Thee liveth and reigneth in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. Amen.
The Collect for the Anglican Use
O HOLY Ghost the Lord, who on Pentecost gavest the Church the gift of tongues that Christ might be known, loved and served by peoples of divers nations and customs: watch over the Anglican heritage within thy Church, we pray thee, that, led by thy guidance and strengthened by thy grace, that Use may find such favor in thy sight that its people may increase both in holiness and number, and so show forth thy glory; who livest and reignest with the Father and the Son, one God world without end. Amen.
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