I dag vil tre tidligere anglikanske biskoper (som ble opptatt i Den katolske Kirke 1. januar) bli diakonviet, og lørdag vil de bli presteviet av erkebiskop Nichols i Westminster Cathedral i London. Og på lørdag eller litt før vil den formelle strukturen rundt disse prestene (‘ordinariatet’) bli opprettet – og deretter kan i alle fall to anglikanske biskoper til, mange prester, og tusenvis av troende strømme inn.
På Den katolske Kirkes offisielle sider for Enagland & Wales kan vi lese følgende:
… Already, three former Anglican Bishops have been received, together with some members of their families and three former Anglican women religious, into full communion with the Catholic Church on 1 January 2011. With the permission of the Holy See, they will also be ordained as Catholic Priests on 15 January 2011. A further two retired former Anglican Bishops will be received into full communion with the Catholic Church and proceed to Ordination as Catholic Priests in due course. …
Vi kan også lese:
… On or before 15 January 2011, it is expected that the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith will publish a Decree which will formally establish a ‘Personal Ordinariate’ in England and Wales (from here on referred to as ‘the Ordinariate’) for groups of Anglican faithful and their clergy who wish to enter into full communion with the Catholic Church.
The establishment of this Ordinariate will be the first fruit of the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus, issued by Pope Benedict XVI on 4 November 2009. The Constitution and the Complementary Norms published by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith provide the essential norms which will enable members of the Ordinariate to preserve within the Catholic Church those elements of Anglican ecclesial prayer, liturgy and pastoral practice (patrimony) that are concordant with Catholic teaching and which have nurtured and nourished their Christian faith and life.
In time, it is expected that further Ordinariates will be established in other parts of the world to meet the desire of those Anglican communities who in a similar way seek to be united in communion with the Successor of St Peter. …