[Peanut Gallery]

Yes, I remember there was an Episcopal parish just down the road, and quite suddenly, they took down the sign and announced they were The Catholic Church of St Mary the Virgin.

Okay, maybe it wasn’t so sudden, but I was in college, away from home, and it seemed to me to happen overnight. Maybe some of today’s exiting parishes could take notes on how SMTV kept their property?

[NYer]

I remember there was an Episcopal parish just down the road, and quite suddenly, they took down the sign and announced they were The Catholic Church of St Mary the Virgin.

Was this in Arlington, TX?

[sionnsar]

Yes, I remember there was an Episcopal parish just down the road, and quite suddenly, they took down the sign and announced they were The Catholic Church of St Mary the Virgin.
Okay, maybe it wasn’t so sudden, but I was in college, away from home, and it seemed to me to happen overnight. Maybe some of today’s exiting parishes could take notes on how SMTV kept their property?

Was this before or after the Dennis Canon (ca. '82?)?

[neb52]

There are three of us on this board that go to SMV. Not sure about the third, but Mr. Chan and I at least were not a part of the parish at the time it convert(nor are we former Anglicans). I don’t know how they kept there property and have wondered this since I starting there, but perhaps the piskie Fort Worth Bishop(almost always trends conservatively) allowed a method to do so. Atonement(I think there is one or two people here) built their own parish in San Antonio and I don’t know about the other Anglican Use parishes as regards to their current property.