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
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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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