Holy Mother Church's Door is always open to those who seek her...

Probably worse has come after you before...

Very curious report. I wonder if there is any truth in it all to it.

I've been hearing rumors of an Anglican Rite being developed by Rome for some time now.

There already is an Anglican rite now with almost the indentical prayer book, There's a church in Boston that is authorized by the Bishop and Vatican to use it. Some of us more cynical departed have long guessed that England would stay with America and left Africa walk. Africa, because of its size and poverty would turn to Rome. Rome would embrace them and let them use the Anglican rite. How this would portend for Anglicans/Episcopalians in America, only the Vatican would know.

What I can tell you is that the chaplin to Patum Peperium BEFORE he was chaplain to Man About Mayfair, Father M., resides in Arlington. You two are about the same age. I also have it on very good report of a most devout lady from Michigan that he is hot stuff to look at. Not that you are that kind of Episcopalian. Father M. doesn't even know I know this about him.

Anyhoo, Father M. has a hobby of lobbying the bish there to allow Anglican rite. You two should have lunch sometime. He even went to college somewhere near you.

The dilemma with the Anglican Use/Pastoral Provision is that there are no seminaries -- in other words, it is seen by the Vatican as a temporary thing to accommodate Anglican priests who wish to join Rome. What happens after these priests die off remains to be seen -- the Church either incorporates the parishes into the traditional Catholic Novus Ordo mass, opts to let the Rite be widened by allowing either traditional parish priests to use it, or decides to let them open a seminary devoted to the rite.

http://www.pastoralprovision.org/

I'd like to see them expand it into a full Anglican rite; if they did it and allowed married priests, I think you'd see a boom in its growth and in vocations. A good thing initially, but it would force the Church directly to confront the issue of married priests within the Latin rite as a whole, which would be, in the church's view, a headache.

More likely they'd allow a seminary, but modify the Anglican use to only allow celibate priests in the future -- or allow traditional Catholic priests to use the rite under an indult, similar to the Tridentine rite now. (Although there is a Tridentine seminary now in Nebraska under the FSSP in Bishop Bruskewitz's diocese).

Rob-O,
For more information on the Anglican Use Rite go to www.anglicanuse.org.
Fr. M.

Thankee, Father!

Might me a bit soon for this song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1AIHP8JsTE

Expect a higher offer from a private equity firm...they're buying up everything they can get their hands on these days...