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The creation of the U.S. ordinariate for Anglicans will turn the restoration of authentic Anglo Catholicism into an international movement. This will demonstrate Pope Benedict's Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus is truly a prophetic document and now a permanent fixture of the Catholic Church -- literally an authentic fulfilment of the ecumenical vision of the Second Vatican Council according to how the conciliar fathers intended. (Not the liberal ideas of syncretism that developed after the council.)
The U.S. Catholic Church will benefit from the U.S. ordinariate in many ways, helping to coax U.S. Catholics into a more traditional way of viewing the liturgy and sacraments. A door will be opened not only for U.S. Anglicans/Episcopalians, leading to full unity with the Catholic Church, but also for U.S. Lutherans and other liturgically-minded Christians who may wish to be a part of this historic movement. An international means will have been created to preserve the Anglican patrimony, under Catholic orthodoxy, which will certainly outlast the Anglican Communion and the Anglican Continuum.
Please join The Catholic Knight in praying the following Novena December 23 through December 31 of 2011, as we await the historic announcement on January 1st.
This novena is to be said along with a daily rosary...
Our dearest Mother Mary, behold us, your children, in prayer at your feet. Accept this Holy Rosary, which we offer you in accordance with your requests at Fatima, as proof of our tender love for you, for the intentions of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in atonement for the offences committed against your Immaculate Heart, and for this special favour which we earnestly request in this Rosary Novena: That the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, be aided with divine grace in the creation of the U.S. ordinariate for Anglicans. Amen.
5 comments:
The hierarchy in England have apparently been less than enthusiastic about these 'traditionalists' joining the Church and diluting their efforts to protestantize the Church here. I hope that the creation of the US ordinariate will give the English ordinariate fresh heart and the fraternal support lacking from the local church hierarchy.
Dear Knight:
Yes, this is certainly good news. I don't mean to be negative, but concerning what you wrote: It pains me to say this, but the average Catholic (and I'm speaking of 'church-going' Catholics) has no real metric to measure what is 'traditional' as opposed to what is not. For that matter, the average Catholic doesn't even know the meaning of the word 'rite', much less that there are other rites besides their own Latin rite or even that they ARE Latin rite. With 'Teen Life' masses and other laughable attempts to 'entertain' the faithful in order to get them to mass and keep them coming, I seriously doubt that the small number of Anglo-Catholic parishes scattered here and there throughout the country will have any visible impact on the average person's attitude. (at least not in the next 50 years) I hope to God I'm wrong and I wish that I didn't have this negative view. I'm a person who's given up on my very old,beautiful,architecturally traditional parish church (the most beautiful church in my diocese which I've attended since childhood)and now attend a small Maronite parish exactly because a particularly liberal bunch of priests is now in control. I only mention this in order to say that I apparently don't have the patience or positive outlook that you have. Again, I sincerely hope I'm dead wrong. Keep up the good work.
Hippie masses are the norm because hippie priests are the norm. Hippie priests are the norm because hippie seminaries are the norm. The environment in the seminaries is the root of the problem. Any ideas how to traditionalize the seminaries?
To the last commentator. It is my understanding that seminaries are now populated by a majority holding a traditional viewpoint, thank God. Things are slowly changing for the better. The seminaries are not as attractive to the homosexuals and their supporters now as they were because of the scandals caused by their predecessors and the vigilance this has caused in some quarters. It is a brave thing now to become a priest and the 'modernists' have been frightened away.
On the subject of seminaries, Pope Benedict XVI has mandated that no homosexuals be allowed in or near them. Not even employees of the seminaries may be gay. Now granted, that doesn't stop a man from lying about his sexuality, but from now on any homosexual man who seeks ordination from the Catholic Church will be basing his entire priesthood on a lie, and will have to stay in the closet for the rest of his life, or risk losing his job.
This has caused many homosexual men seeking ordination to switch to The Episcopal Church instead, and indeed, many former homosexual Catholic priests, including some known abusers have been given assignments in The Episcopal Church. The trend is clear. An exchange is going on. Liberal Modernists are flocking to Canterbury while the Conservative Traditionalists (including Anglicans) are switching to the Catholic Church. These are very encouraging signs.
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