From Canterbury to Rome: Why the Queen’s Former Chaplain Became Catholic

National Catholic Register ^ | 8 March 2020 | KV Turley

[Cronos]

From 2008-2017, Ashenden was Anglican chaplains assigned to the queen. ...

Why did he decide to become a Catholic? “Slowly, but surely over the last 10 years it became clearer, both in my mind and in my prayers, that what the Catholic Church taught, particularly about the Mass, was not only true, but had always been true, from the Apostolic Fathers onwards.” ...

lacking a magisterium, there was no way [for the Anglican Communion] to draw together a coherent theological resistance to the spiritual decadence that this created.”

".. becoming Catholic was rather like climbing up the river, past the crosscurrents of the polluted and confused waters downstream, and returning to the source where the river was purer and stronger.” ...nothing can prepare one for the joy and experience of the moment of being fully reconciled. It has been described so aptly and so often as a ‘coming home.’ It was a deep joy to receive the Holy Eucharist .. “More interestingly,there have appeared large numbers of people who have written to me saying, ‘We have a deep instinctive sense that you are right, and what you have done is true and real, but we need help working it through ourselves; please help us in our journey, thinking and praying so that we can find the courage and clarity to follow you [into the Church].’”

...Ashenden : “Facing as we do a more determined and aggressively progressive culture on one side, and a demographic future that will see over half the population following Islam by 2050, I want to strongly suggest to my former community that only the Catholic Church has the clarity of self-understanding, and the spiritual history and resources, to face both these enormous challenges to our neighbors’ souls and well-being now, and, more importantly, after death.”

[Cronos]

Nay, dear sir, if I utilizeth brevity and say “Jesus inaugurated the Eucharist and told all of us, His followers, to eat of His body and to do this in memory of Him”

Then you would say “that’s not enough, give me more information”

And there would be post 38 - giving you the exhaustive evidence from the Bible that Jesus told us to celebrate the Eucharist, and to eat of His body.

[ScholarWarrior]

Ok. I’ll use little words. Don’t clog up the rest of FR with your crap.

[Cronos]

So, simple words are what you need. This isn’t crap, and if you aren’t interested, then go read what you are interested in...