St. John the Evangelist is Canada's first Anglican-use parish of the Catholic Church
The congregation of one of the oldest churches in Calgary will celebrate its first mass as part of the Catholic faith Saturday.
St. John the Evangelist in Inglewood is Canada's first Anglican-use parish of the Catholic Church after the congregation voted to join in November 2010.
Administrator Lee Kenyon says it will be a historic moment. To read more, click here.
5 comments:
Robin,
There they go again with their anglican heritage and traditions a.k.a. patrimony. But, what precisely did they keep other than some hymns? The article does not say what service or ritual they used. Were they required to use the Novo Ordo? Who presided? Their former priest or a Roman substitute? Did they retain their property? None of this was in the article.
Richard,
The only related article that I could find was a year old and appeared on the Anglo-Catholic web log. It reported on the vestry's decision to accept the papal offer and its plans for a congregational vote.
Since the church has a parish administrator, it presumably must not have a priest at the present time. Its former priest has not yet been reordained, presuming that he qualifies for reordination.
I was at Mass a couple of weeks ago, The Mass is fully Anglican, as it uses the Book of Common Prayer, however there are slight modifications, such as including mention of Henry as the Bishop, and Benedict xvi, during the prayers. However they're fully Anglican (High) when it comes to worship, and there's nothing one can say if one's never attended it's services.
http://www.catholicregister.org/columns/item/13643-fresh-energy-for-the-church-500-years-in-the-making
The link I posted is an article from January 2012, thus you claiming there's no recent article is preposterous!
Michael,
Please note the date that I posted the article. The article to which you were refer in your comment was posted a month after I posted my comment.
If the order of Mass used in the celebration of Mass that you attend a couple of weeks ago was taken from the Book of Divine Worship, then the modifications were not slight. If you have been worshiping in a church that uses one of the Anglican missals or the Roman Rite, then you might not notice the differences in the orders of service. However, the orders of Mass in these rites differ significantly in doctrine and liturgical usages from the orders for the administration of the Holy Communion in the 1928 American Prayer Book, the 1962 Canadian Prayer Book, and the 1662 English Prayer Book.
Please do not go around telling people that if they join the ordinariate in their particular neck of the woods, they will be using the 1928 American Prayer Book, the 1962 Canadian Prayer Book, or the 1662 English Prayer Book because it is patently untrue. The Roman Catholic Church has made this quite clear from the beginning.
The Book of Divine Worship is based on the American 1979 BCP; very much a modernist production. The Mass as final approved is not even close to being the one from either an older BCP or the Anglian/English missal rite, is effectively the novus ordo, with bowdlerized Roman canon with the possibility of using thees and thous, hardly Anglican.
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