The first principle of the Ordinariate is then about Christian unity. St. Basil the Great, the Church’s greatest ecumenist, literally expended his life on the work of building bridges between orthodox brethren who shared a common faith, but who had become separated from one another in a Church badly fragmented by heresy and controversy. He taught that the work of Christian unity requires deliberate and ceaseless effort...St. Basil often talked with yearning about the archaia agape, the ancient love of the apostolic community, so rarely seen in the Church of his day. This love, he taught, is a visible sign that the Holy Spirit is indeed present and active, and it is absolutely essential for the health of the Church.

- Msgr. Jeffrey Steenson, Homily on the Occasion of his Formal Institution as Ordinary

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

The Anglo-Catholic Blog revived...with an important post on the liturgy

While the rest of us are spending our summers vacationing (well, yours truly has actually been working quite hard, but lying low nonetheless), Christian Campbell has been hard at work blogging over at the Anglo-Catholic, after many months of letting it lie dormant.

In a post titled "Request for Information on "Ad Experimentum" Rite at OLW" Christian notes:
Earlier today, the following message was posted to the Anglican Use Mailing List:
There was quite a surprise at OLW this morning: a new Order of Mass. I'll highlight changes that I recall. Hopefully others will chime in & comment...

This new Order of Mass, which Christian terms, rightly I think, ad experimentum, is being used in a handful of parishes in the US, Canada and England (and perhaps Australia, although I have seen no confirmation of that). There are restorations of traditional Anglican prayer formulae, but re-ordering of the service to bring it more in line with the Roman Rite.

To read a bit more about this, visit the Anglo-Catholic blog, and sign up for the Anglican Use newsgroup on Yahoo (there's a link in the sidebar to the left).
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4 comments:

  1. Daniel HummAugust 18, 2013 at 8:20 PM

    If you were to check the OLW Ordinariate FB page, they linked to this article back on July 24 which mentioned that a revised liturgy would be "trialled" in Australia. http://www.therecord.com.au/news/local/ordinariate-liturgy-to-be-trialled-in-perth-mid-august/

    It's interesting that it is being used at St. Mary the Virgin, since I have never heard anything regarding them actually being made part of the Personal Ordinariate. They are not listedd in Ordinariate Communities on the webpage.

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  2. William TigheAugust 20, 2013 at 3:23 PM

    "It's interesting that it is being used at St. Mary the Virgin, since I have never heard anything regarding them actually being made part of the Personal Ordinariate. They are not listedd in Ordinariate Communities on the webpage."

    St. Mary the Virgin cannot be transferred to the Ordinariate until there is a Catholic Bishop of Fort Worth to authorize the transfer, and the see has been vacant September 2012, when its bishop, Kevin Vann, was translated to the see of Oakland, Califienia.

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  3. Daniel HummAugust 22, 2013 at 2:45 PM

    Bishop Vann actually went to Orange rather than Oakland. Apparently he is still the Delegate for the Pastoral Provision and it looks as if he recently appointed a priest in Orange as Secretary of the Pastoral Provision.

    I suppose that if St. Mary the Virgin cannot be transferred to the Ordinariate until Fort Worth has a bishop that could authorize the transfer, there is no guaranty that a new bishop would authorize the transfer. I take it that technically they do not even have a pastor since Fr. Hawkins retirement,and whether or not a new pastor is to be appointed by the new bishop or by Msgr. Steenson will be up to the new bishop.

    It remains interesting as to how they were authorized to use the new liturgy prior to some type of official promulgation. Would they have been authorized as a Pastoral Provision parish by Bishop Vann?

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  4. AnonymousAugust 22, 2013 at 6:01 PM

    Me too. What was wrong with St. Tim's in Fort Worth? A very traditional parish whose pastor has forgotten more about Anglican patrimony than any of those chosen to "critique" the new liturgy will ever know. And that knowledge extends to most of the parishioners there.

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