Det skrives mye om anglikanere i England som nå er i ferd med å bli katolikker, men det fins mennesker også i mange andre land som er i ferd med å gjøre det samme – i USA for eksempel. Og i USAhar man i 30 år hatt såkalte «Anglican use» menigheter, som har beholdt en del av sin liturgiske arv i alle disse år. Det har vært få menigheter, og de har vært fullt ut plassert i et vanlig katolsk bispedømme. Nå vil det bli mange flere, og de vil også løsrives vanlig vanlige bispedømmer og få sin egen (noemer frittstående) ordinarius:
For more than 30 years, groups of American Anglicans have prayed, labored and sacrificed to come home to Rome and live out their Catholicity within the Bark of Peter. A crack in the door was opened when Pope John Paul II created the Pastoral Provision, which allowed for married Episcopal priests to convert to Roman Catholicism. Following more theological training, they could then be ordained Catholic priests and live out their lives and ministries in the Catholic Church.
More than 100 Anglican and Episcopal priests took the Pope up on his unique offer. Within three decades several vibrant Anglican Use Catholic parishes were established and continue to grow in numbers.
Last year, another Roman pontiff, Benedict XVI, kicked the Vatican doors wide open to Anglicans when he announced Anglicanorum Coetibus calling for the worldwide establishment of Anglican Ordinariates. This news not only sent shock waves throughout the heart of Anglican England, it brought forth a tide of Anglican priests and their bishops who are willing to be fully united with their Apostolic roots and be the bedrock foundation of a yet-to-be-established English ordinariate.
This is entirely new ground. All Anglican Ordinariates, no matter where they are established in the world — England, the United States, Canada, Australia, Africa or elsewhere — are being developed from scratch without a blueprint in hand except, perhaps, for the few and flourishing Anglican Use parishes in America.
«I have thought for a long time that we, in this country, are perhaps more ready than any other,» Fr. Christopher Phillips, pastor of Our Lady of the Atonement Anglican Use Catholic Church, told a Becoming One gathering of American Anglicans Wednesday evening. «We have sizable parishes already in full communion with the Holy See.»
Fr. Phillips was referring not only to Our Lady of the Atonement, but also Our Lady of Walsingham Anglican Use Catholic Church in Houston and St. Mary the Virgin Anglican Use Catholic Church in Arlington. All three Texas-based Anglican Use parishes have been in existence for more than a quarter of a century and have been thriving Catholic congregations within their respective Catholic dioceses. At the same time, they have successfully maintained their own unique Anglican patrimony. … ….
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