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Dear all, last week I had the chance to attend worship at a TEC-Church for the very first time. (Technically I've been to one before, but as that was not in the US I think that does not count.) I was in Washington DC for a conference and found the Parish of Ascension and St Agnes near the...

Hello all, I have a question for Evangelicals and those among us who consider themselves as being "low church". My experience of Evangelical parishes is very limited, but I would like to know about your liturgical practices. Do you use either BCP or Common Worship? Is there a weekly...

Hi there! National Pilgrimage to Walsingham is on May 29th this year. Anyone from STR coming? I couldn't make it last year, but this year I am determined to go. I know that the "National Pilgrimage" is not the best day to go there for the first time, but it is on a bank holiday and I hope to...

Hi! The Anglican Church often defines itself as "Catholic and Reformed", a description I would generally approve of. Some Anglicans though deny this, a fact that I was aware of but I did not expect people here at CF to utter a definition of the Anglican Church that basically excludes the...

Dear all in TAW, recently I was discussing this with a friend an did not know the answer: Roman Catholics believe that in most churches other than RC the Eucharist is not valid, i e the bread and wine are not changed into the body and blood of our Lord. They believe though that Orthodox...

Dear all, Common Worship - the official prayer book of the Church of England - has several Eucharistic Prayers. All of them offer an alternative to the usual opening: The Lord be with you and also with you Alternative: The Lord is here. His spirit is with us. Does anyone know...

Dear all, Common Worship - the official prayer book of the C of E - has several Eucharistic Prayers. All of them offer an alternative to the usual opening: The Lord be with you and also with you Alternative: The Lord is here. His spirit is with us. Does anyone know where this second...

Dear all, I hope no one takes offence of me writing this post. Yesterday I was utterly amazed and happy about the ARCIC Report about the Blessed Virgin. What a wonderful step towards unity in faith with our brothers and sisters in the Roman Catholic Church! Then I had a look at what was...

Hi, read this: http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0502975.htm Amazing! Boni

Dear brothers and sisters in the Orthodox forum, I came across a question in a German forum and did not have an answer: Roman-catholic spirituality brought forth many Eucharistic miracles as part of their belief in the real presence of our Lord in the consecrated bread and wine (like bleeding...

Dear all, I was asked this in a German forum and did not know an answer. Have you ever heard of any kind of a eucharistic miracle in the context of the Anglican Church (like bleeding hosts, people being sustained only by consuming the host and no other food etc.)? Many thanks for your...

Hallo zusammen, wer hätte es gedacht, da hat das Kardinalskollegium doch tatsächlich the odd German zum Papst gewählt. Ein Papst aus dem Land Luthers ... Wie findet Ihr das? Immerhin ist er hier schon ziemlich bekannt und man kann seine Schriften im Original lesen. Leider sind seit heute...

Hallo zusammen, hier im deutschsprachigen Forum treiben sich ja ein paar Leute herum, die Deutsch sprechen oder aus deutschsprachigen Ländern kommen. In welchen Foren seid Ihr hier sonst noch anzutreffen und was hat Euch dorthin verschlagen? Ich bin meistens in STR...

Dear all, a friend recommended Thomas Howard's books to me. Has anyone read one or some of them? Thanks & greetings Bonifatius

Dear all, is anyone of you familiar with the English Missal? I always thought the English Missal was basically the English language form of the Roman (Tridentine) Mass. But now I've read somewhere that there were two concurring parties among English Anglo-Catholics in the 19th century. One...

Dear all, I get more and more bored by this. Yesterday it happened again. OK, living in Germany and being Anglican is not always easy, as this country is divided into two parties - Roman Catholic and Protestant - more than others. And Protestant here really means Protestant ;) As an...

I just came back from Frankfurt Book Fair where I met at one booth a group of utterly militant RC's. This was a very strange experience - from my European background I just didn't know there were RC's who behaved like Mormons or Jehovah's Witnesses in terms of *active mission*. When they had...

Dear all, I was asked by someone else what Anglicans believe about relics. Well - I thought the point is that not much was left after the Reformation period and the puritan revolution in the 17th century, but then I remembered St. Alban's shrine at St. Albans Cathedral and the tomb of St...