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To: marshmallow; redgolum; lightman; sionnsar

True Anglicans, of the High Church variety, like “High Church” Lutherans, are surprisingly Orthodox in many areas but with a sort of Western gloss on things. I expect that’s why Anglicans and Lutherans seem to have such an easy time “getting it” when they are chrismated as Orthodox Christians, far easier, in my experience, than Roman Catholics have.


6 posted on 04/29/2011 8:52:19 AM PDT by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated)
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To: Kolokotronis
True Anglicans, of the High Church variety, like “High Church” Lutherans, are surprisingly Orthodox in many areas but with a sort of Western gloss on things

Aye, Fr. John Wesley was a strong advocate of certain "useages" in the liturgy, including the mixed (wine and water) Chalice and the use of an [i]epiclesis[/i].

Many of his Methodist descendants have forgotten the faith of their father!

11 posted on 04/29/2011 1:09:16 PM PDT by lightman (Adjutorium nostrum (+) in nomine Domini)
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To: Kolokotronis

Richard Neuhaus, of First Things fame, has a story that he used to relate in artilces.

As a former Luthern, he had friends in the Roman Catholic Church that, like him, had spent time in other denominations. As the Second Vatican had changed the Catholic Mass in ways that many traditionalists resented, Neuhaus would relate to story of a former Anglican, now in the RC Church with him, who, while they were listening to the Mass, would sometimes murmur, “Oh, how I miss the Mass in its native English” (or words to that effect). To him the Anglican high-church Book of Common Prayer in many ways kept the formality of the Latin Mass much more faithfully than the Second Vatican americanized versions for that fellow.


12 posted on 04/29/2011 1:40:25 PM PDT by KC Burke
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