Posted on 01/29/2024 4:50:28 PM PST by ebb tide
Today in Rome, Justin Welby, the Anglican “Archbishop” of Canterbury (more accurately, arch-layman, since Anglican Orders are null and void) was allowed to celebrate what Vatican News called “a sung Anglican Eucharist” in the Basilica of St. Bartholomew (the titular church of none other than Cardinal Blase Cupich). Michael Haynes, senior Rome correspondent for LifeSiteNews, reported that Welby thanked “Pope Francis especially for having granted permission for the service.”
This “Anglican Eucharist,” reminiscent of the one which took place last April in the Basilica of St. John Lateran (the Pope’s cathedral church), was anticipated by a celebration of Evensong (Anglican Vespers) in St. Peter’s Basilica on Tuesday evening with full Vatican approval (the same as in 2017). These Protestant services were than capped off by an “ecumenical Vespers” held this evening (Rome time) in the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls, during which both Pope Francis and Justin Welby preached.
All of these services are part of “a week-long summit of ecumenical discussion and pilgrimage to be held in Rome and Canterbury from 22-29 January 2024,” Vatican News explained earlier this week. “As they visit sacred sites in Rome and Canterbury, the [Anglican and Catholic] Bishops will pray, reflect, and learn from each other. The goal is to discuss ways to grow together in witness and mission in the world.” The summit coincides with the international Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, which is held annually from January 18 (traditional Feast of St. Peter’s Chair in Rome) to January 25 (Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul).
Whereas the modern Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is rooted in the false ecumenism condemned by Pope Pius XI in Mortalium Animos (1928), its predecessor — known as the Church Unity Octave or Chair of Unity Octave — was initiated by two American Episcopalians with the express purpose of praying “for the return of non-Catholic Christians to the Holy See.” Paul James Wattson and Lurana White, co-founders of the Society of the Atonement, held the first octave of prayer in 1908 and then converted in 1909, bringing their Episcopal religious order and many others with them.
In 1910, Pope St. Pius X personally wrote to Wattson, who was preparing for priestly ordination at the time, and gave his blessing to the prayer initiative. Six years later, Pope Benedict XV extended its observance to the entire Church, after which it became customary to pray for the conversion of a different group of non-Catholics on each day of the octave (see here for the daily intentions).
As we conclude this year’s Church Unity Octave, and in light of the false worship that was allowed to take place in a Catholic basilica, let us recall the following words of Pius XI:
“… it is clear why this Apostolic See has never allowed its subjects to take part in the assemblies of non-Catholics: for the union of Christians can only be promoted by promoting the return to the one true Church of Christ of those who are separated from it, for in the past they have unhappily left it. To the one true Church of Christ, We say, which is visible to all, and which is to remain, according to the will of its Author, exactly the same as He instituted it. …
Let, therefore, the separated children draw nigh to the Apostolic See, set up in the City which Peter and Paul, the Princes of the Apostles, consecrated by their blood; to that See, We repeat, which is ‘the root and womb whence the Church of God springs,’ [St. Cyprian, Ep. 48 ad Cornelium, 3] not with the intention and the hope that ‘the Church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth,’ [1 Tim. 3:15] will cast aside the integrity of the faith and tolerate their errors, but, on the contrary, that they themselves submit to its teaching and government.” (Mortalium Animos, nn. 10, 12)
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Maybe the Anglican Eucharist and the Roman Catholic Eucharist should be subject to taste testing by expects to see which one is true.
No is testing necessary.
What a riot you are. Most witty
You’re looking for trouble where there is none.
Chill out.
The only ‘one true Church of Christ’ is the one that exists in the hearts of people who believe in Him.
the two Eucharistic liturgies are very close.
Dream on.
I don’t ‘dream’. I think.
Millions of people belong to Christ, through their belief and dedication to Him. They don’t need to belong to a specific man-made organization or human-built ‘church’ to be true Christians.
Your egotism and materialism tells you that your Church is the only true one. But it’s not.
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Protestants were three times more likely to commit suicide than Catholics in 19th-century Prussia, and this trend appears to still hold.
And I suppose that has nothing to do with anything except religious denomination?
No it is the one founded when Jesus gave Peter the Authority to rule in Huis absence when He gave Peter the Keys to the Kingdom. this authority has been passed down unbroken for 2000 years, through the Catholic Church. Read the Bible it is all there for those that are intelligent enough to see it.
Our Lord Jesus established ONE church not a multiplicity of denominations. He also reminds us that a house divided against itself cannot stand. Not that the faith that the church held from the resurrection to the present remains unchanged and didn’t change in the 1500’s. The idea that the seat of Peter is vacant is only temporary as the great apostacy is on the move and picking up steam since late 1950’s, and false Christs have been claiming to be Peter up to the present.
Opinions differ on the literal truth of everything in the Bible.
Only if you are a Schismatic, Heretic, or Protestant. Do you fit into one of those categories.
I don’t belong to any church; but I’m sure you would call me a heretic.
But that’s ok - fortunately I’ve known some Catholics who aren’t keen to needle and insult people of other religious persuasions all the time.
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