Bishop Lopes speaks on identity & mission
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- Опубликовано: 24 мар 2020
- Bishop Lopes came from Houston to speak at our 2019 Anglican Tradition Conference in Toronto about our mission ten years on from Anglicanorum Coetibus. The bishop spoke highly of the ordinariates' ability to be a powerful evangelizing force. The Anglican patrimony goes beyond just the liturgical and what we do as Catholics should have a distinctive shape. Young people in particular respond to the authentic charity, beauty, and intellectual seriousness of our rich tradition, which goes back well before the Reformation and is only beginning to be explored. Thanks to the bishop for this great kick-off to our conference.
surely mission is clear,,,to save reverend vicars of the anglican from fires of hell
I belong to the Roman rite of the church but I love the Anglican liturgy and attended one of the Ordinariate mass. I’m blown away with the reverence... it’s like Latin Mass in English... but I said with charity.
The Ordinariate Divine Worship or the “Anglican Use” is a Roman Rite liturgy. They are a group WITHIN the Latin Church. They are not a “third thing” along with Eastern Catholics and Latin Catholics. Ordinariate members are non-diocesan LATIN Catholics.
They are not the some completely independent branch or “western version” of the Eastern Churches and their Eastern Rites. The Latin Church just is the western church. And the Anglican Ordinariate is way for western Christians of Protestant background to re-enter the Latin Church while still retaining what was “Catholic” from the heritage. The Protestant denomination with the most “Latin Catholic” heritage is the Anglican tradition.
Bishop Lopes is absolutely right. Reminds me when I pop into a 'Franciscan' parish or a 'Carmelite' parish within a Catholic diocese. Yes, the Ordinariate should never see its identity as 'fringe', and accept that its patrimony extends backwards to the very first liturgy in English and forwards to English usage among all English-speakers, whether in Singapore (where I am), to Pakistan or elsewhere in the Commonwealth, and beyond, where English use in Catholicism is a norm. In the past, the Conference of Bishops of England and Wales had significant influence in the versions of the GIRM, etc other English speaking conferences used. Now, decades later, many of these conferences have matured to their own (e.g. India, Singapore-Malaysia-Brunei). The other example of the Ordinariate is that of the Opus Dei, and the US Military.
Basically, make an effort to increase your contribution, collaborate with your priests in the many tasks/ministries in your parish, use the colloquial language common to all Catholics, evangelize to friends and learn more about the Catholic Church. The same asked to all Catholics. 😇
I wish there was an ordinariate parish here in Utah. There's just such beauty in the very tradition, just as Bishop Lopez said this is a tradition even older than the tridentine Mass itself. Hope to attend a parish sometime soon.
Its basically the same church both good🌅
The Church is only ONE.