Two years since Anglicanorum coetibus, they say the day is coming soon -- the release of the CDF decree establishing a Stateside jurisdiction for groups of Anglicans entering full communion with Rome, bringing with them distinctive elements of their lifelong patrimony of faith.
Yet even without the formal starting-gun, the groundbreaking B16 venture has already begun taking root on these shores, reaching a new level of its ramp-up last weekend.
At a Sunday Mass in Fort Worth, some 30 former Episcopalians became the first US group to enter the Catholic fold in preparation for the American Ordinariate's launch. Fourteen months since beginning their catechesis, the group's Professions of Faith, Confirmations and First Eucharists in St Patrick's Cathedral took place four years after four priests of North Texas' Episcopal diocese met privately with Bishop Kevin Vann to investigate the possibility of swimming the Tiber...
Read the rest at Rocco Palmo's Whispers in the Loggia.
Hat tip to Fr. Phillips writing at The Anglo-Catholic blog.
Sir Thomas ... and three centuries later (2)
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So Thomas Blackburn iniquitously secreted away alabaster tablets within
Ripon church; subsequently, he denied having removed them from the church!
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