Fr Bill Foote, appointed by Archbishop Collins to visit and mentor groups of Anglicans and Catholics who wish to enter the Ordinariate, visited the Toronto Group on 29 May. As Fr Foote put it, in guiding groups of Anglicans toward entering into the full communion of the Catholic Church, his job is to be “the horse’s mouth.” Here is what we heard from the horse’s mouth:
Anglicanorum Coetibus does not propose to establish a kind of uniate structure, where entire jurisdictions “unite” with Rome. Rather, the Apostolic Constitution provides a bridge or doorway, so that individuals and groups may journey together to enter into the Catholic Church, and find room within the Latin rite for former Anglicans, now Catholic, to preserve their liturgical, spiritual and pastoral traditions, a gift for the whole Church.
Fr Foote emphasized the necessity of personal choice and commitment. To enter into the full communion of the Catholic Church ”“ to become Catholics ”“ each person must make a profession of faith, to the effect that he or she believes everything that the Catholic Church believes and teaches. If an individual is already baptized, he or she will then be confirmed….
[blockquote] “[i]Anglicanorum Coetibus[/i] [b]does not propose to establish a kind of uniate structure,[/b] where entire jurisdictions “unite†with Rome. Rather, the Apostolic Constitution provides a bridge or doorway, so that individuals and groups may journey together to [i]enter into the Catholic Church[/i], and find room within the Latin rite for former Anglicans, now Catholic, to preserve their liturgical, spiritual and pastoral traditions, a gift for the whole Church.
Fr Foote emphasized [b]the necessity of personal choice and commitment[/b]. To enter into the full communion of the Catholic Church – to become Catholics – each person must make a profession of faith, to the effect that he or she believes everything that the Catholic Church believes and teaches.” [emphasis in original][/blockquote]
Fr. Foote’s candour is commendable and wise. However, it appears that not all Anglican Continuum leaders showed similar candour with their flock prior to joining the Ordinariate. One reads frequent complaints on-line that Anglicans understood that they were going to participate in a type of uniate structure rather than “being absorbed” as it is often put. Hence why it seems that the actual numbers joining the Ordinariate will be far less than anticipated.
I am fed up with the fact that people feel they have to head off to the far from perfect Church of Rome because we have a crap old Druid who won’t look after the flock.
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Don’t hold back Pageantmaster. Tell us how you really feel. 🙂
#2 save your ire for the Druid, then, not your brothers in Christ who are following God’s call to them. Unless you feel there’s no possible way Christ would call someone out of the AC into the RCC? Personally I’m sick of the snark (and often thinly veiled anti-Catholicism) from those Anglicans who choose to take the Ordinariate (remember who ASKED for it in the first place?) personally.
Hmmm, Pageantmaster says that the Church of Rome is “far from perfect” and Chris Molter reacts with: “snark”, “thinly veiled anti-Catholicism” and “taking it personally”!
I agree that somebody is taking it personally, but its not Pageantmaster!
Right — because anybody who believes that the Church of Rome is intrinsically flawed in its claims and dares to state that out loud is clearly “anti-Catholic.”
Of course, if we go by that definition that we have a whole lot of “anti-Anglicans” and “anti-Baptists” and “anti-Presbyterians” out there.
“Unless you feel there’s no possible way Christ would call someone out of the AC into the RCC?”
Wonder why He’s calling some of us but not all of us.
Have fun, Chris:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh_nqtp3VrU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrDbgjLKoxU
http://www.sspx.org/RCRpdfs/2004_rcrs/march_ 2004_rcr.pdf