Anglican Use

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The Canterbury Cross - Symbol of the Anglican Use Society.
The Canterbury Cross - Symbol of the Anglican Use Society.

Anglican Use has two meanings. First, it refers to former Anglican congregations who have joined the Roman Catholic Church while maintaining some of the features of Anglicanism. These parishes were formerly members of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America and were allowed to join the Catholic Church under the Pastoral Provision of 1980 issued by Pope John Paul II. Anglican Use parishes currently exist only in the United States. Many Anglican Use priests are former priests of the Episcopal Church and most are married.

Second, Anglican Use refers to the particular form of worship used by those churches, which can be found in the Book of Divine Worship. The liturgy can be used outside of Anglican Use parishes with the proper permission from the local Catholic bishop.

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[edit] Liturgy

Officially a variation of the widely used Roman Rite, the Anglican Use liturgy reflects many influences, including the Sarum Use, the English Missal, and the 1928 and 1979 versions of the Episcopalian Book of Common Prayer, as well as the Roman Missal. The regular Sunday Mass is based on a 16th-century translation of the Latin Tridentine Mass and is similar to high Anglican and Anglo-Catholic services. Distinctive features of such masses include 16th century English (e.g., "thee" and "thou"), greater use of incense and bell-ringing, the altar placed against the eastern wall, celebration of Solemn High Mass with the assistance of a deacon and subdeacon, and more traditional music, chants, and English hymns. Gender roles are also more traditional. All ceremonies are performed in English.

[edit] Book of Divine Worship

The adapted liturgy of the Anglican Use is contained in the Book of Divine Worship. In addition to the adapted liturgy, an additional Pastoral Provision allows Anglican and some Protestant clergy who joined the Roman Catholic Church to be ordained priests for the Catholic Church despite being married. The permission to celebrate the Anglican Use and the Pastoral Provision are not necessarily linked.

[edit] Communion

Anglican Use is a particular form of worship within the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church, which also includes the Ambrosian Rite of Milan and neighbouring areas, the Mozarabic Rite in limited use in Spain, and Zaire Use in some parts of Africa.

Anglican Use should not be confused with Anglo-Catholic Liturgies performed by parishes either within the Anglican Communion or in the Continuing Anglican Movement, neither of whom are in communion with the Roman Catholic Church.

Other former Episcopal and Anglican parishes have left Anglican denominations for Western Rite Orthodoxy as parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia or the Antiochian Western Rite Vicariate.

[edit] Membership

Anglican Use parishes are rare and are found only in certain dioceses of the United States. Any Anglican parish seeking to join the Catholic Church and become Anglican Use parishes must have the permission of the local Roman Catholic bishop. Some Anglican parishes in Canada and the UK have applied to become Anglican Use but have been refused permission.

[edit] Parishes and missions

  • Our Lady of the Atonement, San Antonio, Texas [1]
  • Our Lady of Walsingham, Houston, Texas [2]
  • St. Mary the Virgin, Arlington, Texas [3]
  • St. Thomas More Fort Worth, Texas
  • St. Margaret of Scotland, Austin, Texas
  • St. Anselm of Canterbury Catholic Mission, Corpus Christi, Texas [4]
  • St. Athanasius Congregation, Boston, Massachusetts [5]
  • St. Thomas More Society, St. Clare Church, Scranton, Pennsylvania [6]
  • Church of the Good Shepherd, Columbia, South Carolina
  • Atlanta Area AU Catholic Laity, Dunwoody, Georgia
  • California AU Catholic Laity, St. Francis of Assisi Church, La Quinta, California

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

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