[narses]

There has been a long and often close relationship between
the Anglican and Catholic Churches. In certain situations
there remains a mutual recognition of the validity of key
doctrines, liturgies, and practices. And the Catholic
Church continues to hold the faith and moral teachings as
taught by the Apostles.

I understand that there is also an Anglican Use liturgy
within the Catholic Church, wherein the Book of Common Prayer
is used for the Mass (with minor updates). So there is no need
to lose the liturgy Anglicans may be familiar with.

Resources for those interested in the Catholic faith:

Catholic Answers
www.catholic.com
A superb site for clearing away the myths propagated by too many.
Offers free on-line library that examines all the major issues,
free on-line archive of over 1,500 hours of radio/audio material,
plus magazines, books, pamphlets, tracts, videos, and more.

Coming Home Network
www.chnetwork.org
Provides fellowship, encouragement and support for Protestant
pastors and laymen who are somewhere along the journey or
have already been received into the Catholic Church.

Biblical Evidence for Catholicism
www.biblicalcatholic.com
Dave Armstrong's monster site. Eclectic, fun, exhaustingly
detailed, personal, moving, and more.

And may God bless your journey where ever it takes you.

posted on 08/05/2003 5:19 PM PDT by polemikos

[sionnsar]

I understand that there is also an Anglican Use liturgy within the Catholic Church, wherein the Book of Common Prayer is used for the Mass (with minor updates). So there is no need to lose the liturgy Anglicans may be familiar with.

You are correct, but whoever did the "updates" to the version I saw online some time back had quite the tin ear. It was every bit as clunky as ECUSA's '79.

[ichabod1]

I understand that there is also an Anglican Use liturgy within the Catholic Church, wherein the Book of Common Prayer is used for the Mass (with minor updates). So there is no need to lose the liturgy Anglicans may be familiar with.

Asa recent Catholic convert, I'm getting involved with this indult. We have a Book of Divine Worship, that seems to me to be an embodiment of the idea of having a BCP for our most definitely Roman Catholic parish. It is modeled on the 1549 BCP. The Eucharist we use is the Roman Canon. We say everything required by our Archbishop in our Masses. Somehow, while having an Anglican look and feel, it is more Roman than almost any Roman Catholic Mass I've attended since my Confirmation.

For example, the homily last weekend was on The Rock we have in Rome. It was about heterodoxy and how Anglicanism is tearing itself apart over it, but with our Rock in Rome heterodoxy will not carry the day when it rears its head in the Catholic Church. I'm really liking it.