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To: trad_anglican
I don't think you understand Anglicanism or you wouldn't make this statement.

PRECISELY. Now ask yourself one question --- what's to stop Roman Catholics who disagree with their church's teachings on gays, abortion, etc. from attending an Anglican mass ?

It's not as if the Roman Catholic church is actually exercising discipline on its most more well known members. If they were doing this, guys like John Kerry or Nancy Pelosi would already be dis-fellowshipped.
36 posted on 10/20/2009 11:08:32 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (wH)
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To: SeekAndFind
what's to stop Roman Catholics who disagree with their church's teachings on gays, abortion, etc. from attending an Anglican mass ?

This is a very different question than the one you initially asked.

Look, I don't want to argue and I'm sorry the tone of my first post to you was uncharitably sharp. This development is cause for great joy, not for sniping. This issue has been in progress for a number of years and those of us in the pews just have to have faith that the guys who've been working on it for years have given thought to the issues that will have to be worked out.

Today is a day for rejoicing that the visible unity of the body of Christ on earth has been strengthened.

37 posted on 10/20/2009 11:18:50 AM PDT by trad_anglican
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To: SeekAndFind

The “Anglican Mass “ as it presently exists in a Protestant setting must be distinguished from the Anglican Rite Mass which will be blessed for use by those who make this journey. The Anglican Rite Mass will be celebrated by those who intellectually agree with the dogma and doctrine of Rome and there will be a physical separation of the Anglican Mass and the Anglican Rite Mass. Protestants go to one church Catholics to another. Those Protestants who make the journey will probably be more orthodox and more observant than the current spiritually bankrupt peasants who currently occupy the RC churches. If not, then why would a current Protestant Anglican make this journey? That is why I facetiously remarked in a prior post that the current devout RC crowd might well attend an Anglican Rite Liturgy to escape the current morass in the RCC occasioned by its present hierarchy and prominent politicians. The 1928 Book of Common Prayer is substantially more sacred than the tunes belted out by the master of the current Catholic regime.


39 posted on 10/20/2009 11:59:34 AM PDT by bronx2
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