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1 posted on
10/08/2002 5:21:40 PM PDT by
B-Chan
To: B-Chan
... and bare-bellied altar girls?...
I would convert to Catholicism just to see that.
2 posted on
10/08/2002 5:26:55 PM PDT by
Asclepius
To: B-Chan
How many Anglican use parishes are there? Less than 20, I would surmise.
3 posted on
10/08/2002 5:31:14 PM PDT by
sinkspur
To: B-Chan
Are you tired of AmChyrch's constant drive to be "inclusive" instead of being Catholic? Not to get into a theological debate, but the word 'catholic' is synonymous with 'inclusive.'
To: B-Chan
Did you post this twice? I responded to the thread in the Breaking News forum, and now it's over here as well. I thought it got moved to Religion, but my response is over there, but not here. Well, here's what I had to say in the other forum:
Even though I'd answer "Yes" to all your questions, I don't think I'll be attending an Anglican Usage service anytime soon. Now that the true Latin Mass is again available to all Catholics, why would anyone attend some other service?
The Anglican Usage sounds like the worst of all worlds. It combines the rite of Thomas Cranmer with elements of the Novus Ordo. It's nice that all of the external elements of reverence are maintained, but it's not the real Mass. It's a synthesized hybrid that has never really existed historically.
English Catholics should attend the Mass that the English martyrs died to preserve: the Latin Mass of all ages.
I cannot imagine Newman, Manning or Evelyn Waugh attending an Anglican Usage service. When they became Catholic, they wanted to be 100% Catholic. Waugh was devastated by the changes at Vatican II.
I personally know other converts from the Episcopalian church who feel the same way, "Why did I convert to the Catholic religion only to find it imitating all the worst aspects of the denomination I left behind?"
They started the St. Gregory's Society in New Haven, CT, one of the first groups to take advantage of the 1988 indult. They produce beautiful tapes and CDs of the traditional Latin Mass. They wouldn't want to attend a hybrid Anglican/Novus Ordo service.
To: B-Chan
At quick glance, this far in the thread and nobody has mentioned the possibility of attending an Eastern Rite Catholic Church....
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