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To: Biggirl
Could this be the begining of the Anglicans making the trip home en masse?

We're already well into that "en masse" movement I think--it's just been happening on an individual basis under the radar, with very few actual bodies/parishes coming over ala the Anglican Use parishes. The TAC merger may turn out to be the the high-water mark, because from what little I know, I don't think too many other Anglican bodies are as Rome-inclined as the TAC has been. The low-churchers and broad-churchers certainly won't make the trip.

However, I think it is true that if TAC comes in and is granted some sort of Apostolic administration or other arrangement that allows a distinct Anglican patrimony to exist under Rome's jurisdiction, that may inspire even more Anglo-Catholics to come in on an individual/parish basis, and perhaps some of the people that already came in (e.g. Al Kimel, Bishop Steenson) will gradually migrate over to that new structure.

10 posted on 10/25/2007 7:21:28 AM PDT by Claud
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To: Claud

The reunion of the TAC under an appropriate juridical arrangement is what we are hoping and praying for down here in the Anglican Usage of the Roman Rite, I can assure you. The Anglican tradition, in its Anglo-Catholic variety, brings a lot of old Catholic material, especially the collects, back to the Church at this great time of true renewal of the Church in continuity with, not rupture from, her 2,000-year history and practice.


12 posted on 10/25/2007 8:11:28 AM PDT by Theophane (Subculture Catholic. Honk if you see my Fatima/Medjugorje/Rosary/Prolife/NRA bumper sticker.)
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