Home is not Rome. Home is Jesus.
Oh, I noticed the Pope created a new denomination to accommodate these people. How divisive of him.
>Home is not Rome.<
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Correct, home is not Rome but the RCC for these people. And if it were not true, they could’ve remained Anglican.
‘I noticed the Pope created a new denomination to accommodate these people. How divisive of him.’
The Ordinariate is NOT a new denomination, it is ‘a special branch of Catholicism established by the Pope’ possibly in the direction of setting up an Anglican Rite within the Church. This would be the same as the other non-Roman Rites in the Church.
Now my own church would have demanded that ~ and by immersion ~ no messing around with dippers and stuff either.
This is the ruination of Rome ~ no hard core there anymore! (/s)
I notice that the ignorant are exercising their free will opining on that which they know not.
Rome has always recognized local rites, whether Ambrosian or Mozarabic (which date from the earliest days of the Church), or the Eastern churches which recognize the authority of the Holy Father. The Roman Rite is simply the most common, the others are just as Catholic and just as valid. I've always admired the Maronite rite, which still says the words of consecration in Aramaic . . . the very words that Christ himself used at the Last Supper.
The Anglicans simply join all the other Catholic groups that are allowed to preserve their own customs in worship. In point of fact, their translation (Cranmer's brilliant work, preserved in this country in the 1928 Book of Common Prayer) is in most parts more accurate and true to the original Latin than the English translation currently in use in the Roman Rite. That's going to change this year, though, we're finally getting a decent (or at least more decent) translation.
Oh, I noticed the Pope created a new denomination to accommodate these people.So much for your gift of discernment there Theo.