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To: SeekAndFind

You are not understanding what is happening here. This is not a recipricol thing happening here. The Catholic Church is welcoming Anglicans who convert and is telling them that they can keep their liturgy. There is already a “Book of Divine Worship” that Anglican-Use Catholic Churches use. It is a combination of the “Book of Common Prayer” with the Catholic Words of Consecration inserted into it, making it fully Catholic. This does not mean that Catholics will be attending Anglican services - unless the particular church involved has converted to Rome. They will not convert (or be received) unless they subscribe to all the tenents of the Faith as found in the Catechism. So your question is moot.


24 posted on 10/20/2009 9:41:41 AM PDT by nanetteclaret (Unreconstructed Catholic Texan)
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To: nanetteclaret
It will be interesting to see how this plays out. I don't think that the RCC will be inundated by a wave of those availing themselves of this provision. Thus the few who do assent can either become part of an existing Catholic parish or have an “Anglican Rite “ Mass celebrated at various times of the day. The existing Anglican Protestant ecclesiastical structure will not allow those who accept this “Anglican Rite” to take the real property with them so the seekers will have to attend in existing Catholic parishes. In rare instances where there is a significant affluent number of those accepting the “ Anglican Rite” there might be a separate structure.But I can't see this as a norm.
I can see many of the current devout RC crowd seeking to join the “Anglican Rite” services as a protest to the “Novus Ordo “ which has been an albatross around their necks for the last forty years. Perhaps the current faithful remnant in the RCC could invite their “Happy Clappy Liturgical Abusing Crowd” parishioners to join the current Protestant Anglican crowd replete with with women and gay clergy. This would be akin to an exchange of POW'S after wars. Just some random thoughts.
32 posted on 10/20/2009 10:08:53 AM PDT by bronx2
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