Posted on 09/30/2010 6:44:25 AM PDT by marshmallow
Mount Calvary Episcopal Church will vote in October on full-communion with the Catholic Church
The Process which brought the whole parish to this historic moment began with a Vestry retreat in October 2007 where it was decided unanimously that Mount Calvary should explore the possibility of becoming part of the Roman Catholic Church. Since then the All Saints Sisters of the Poor were received into the Catholic Church and the Apostolic Constitution for Anglicans coming into full communion was promulgated.
WASHINGTON, DC (Catholic Online) - In a letter to parishioners, the Reverend Jason Cantania, rector of Mount Calvary Episcopal Church in Baltimore, Maryland, announced that the vestry of the parish had voted unanimously in favor of two resolutions. First, they have voted to leave The Episcopal Church (TEC) where they are a part of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland, and, second, to become an Anglican Use parish in the Catholic Church through the new initiative from Rome - the Anglicorum Coetibus.
Under the terms of this apostolic constitution, the Church has provided opportunities for "personal ordinariates for Anglicans entering full communion with the Catholic Church." As an Anglican Use parish, they will be authorized to use an authorized version of the Episcopal Church's Book of Common Prayer called the "Book of Divine Worship."
Mount Calvary Episcopal Church, founded in 1842, is located in the heart of the city of Baltimore. On their website they describe themselves as a parish that has "borne faithful witness to the essential truth of Catholic Christianity and the tradition of the Oxford Movement for over 150 years, and remains to this day a bulwark of orthodox Anglo-Catholic practice.
(Excerpt) Read more at catholic.org ...
With Anglicans breaking away from their religion because of homosexuality and the Pope maintaining his hard line on what true Christians and Catholics are and what has been handed down through the centuries in Biblical teachings, there seems to be a new resurgence in Catholicism and Christianity especially vs the Muslim/Islam cult which the latter has a lot in common with the Thuggee cult in India of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Perhaps it will grow. Any church that stands by principle deserves to have people trust them.
I so very much miss the old traditional Latin Mass.
I don’t blame them. It makes me sad to see what has become of the Episcopal Church.
Wow, what an impressive website!
They appear to be a lot more Catholic than a lot of Latin Rite Catholic churches.
Here is their website. Looks really Catholic especially when you go to the photo page.
http://www.mountcalvary.com/index.php
Use google maps to wander around the neighborhood. May not be a best, but with Johns Hopkins expanding it may well gentrify.
Use google maps to wander around the neighborhood. May not be a best, but with Johns Hopkins expanding it may well gentrify.
We’ll take them, one by one; even if they come as individuals or as a group.
All we can say is “Welcome to the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church!”
And I think that’s enough!
(PS. A lot of catechesis is going to be needed.....maybe.)
Both this church and the other link posted to the one in Philadelphia look a lot “more” Catholic than a lot of the VCII-embracing, Kumbaya-singing Catholic churches out their that profess to be in full communion with the Holy See.
There may be one in your area. And there is a “Find the Tridentine Mass” or something like that in a search engine.
Take a good look at the links posted to two churches in posts 8 and 10. It looks to me like the parishoners are probably a lot better catechized than the millions of CINOs.
That’s why I said “maybe”
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