The Ordinariate Gets a Bishop

[Shane R]

http://tomperna.org/2015/11/25/my-friend-bishop-elect-steven-j-lopes/

http://www.virtueonline.org/houston...op-lead-catholics-nurtured-anglican-tradition

The Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter has had a bishop appointed for the first time in its brief history. The bishop will replace the ordinary. There is also a new missal coming, designated for use beginning on the first Sunday of Advent.

I have not seen the liturgical texts yet, but none of the clergy that came to Rome through the Pastoral Provision for Anglicans were even candidates for this bishopric. The bishop is a cradle Catholic. This is likely a step towards slowly eliminating the vestiges of Anglicanism in this particular corner of the Catholic Church.

 

[everbecoming2007]

http://tomperna.org/2015/11/25/my-friend-bishop-elect-steven-j-lopes/

http://www.virtueonline.org/houston...op-lead-catholics-nurtured-anglican-tradition

The Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter has had a bishop appointed for the first time in its brief history. The bishop will replace the ordinary. There is also a new missal coming, designated for use beginning on the first Sunday of Advent.

I have not seen the liturgical texts yet, but none of the clergy that came to Rome through the Pastoral Provision for Anglicans were even candidates for this bishopric. The bishop is a cradle Catholic. This is likely a step towards slowly eliminating the vestiges of Anglicanism in this particular corner of the Catholic Church.

From what I remember from the older Book of Divine Worship the mass wasn't something that would have been very familiar to most Anglicans anyway. While the Daily Office was similar to that contained in the 1979 Book of Common Prayer the canon of the mass was very similar to the old Roman canon if not the same altogether. The whole service was similar to the old Latin Rite, but there were modern features too that would irk some Anglican traditionalists: the collects were based on those of the Novus Ordo Rite and I believe the lectionary followed a three year cycle from the modern English Revised Standard Version even if the rest of the liturgy is in traditional English. The liturgy could be performed in traditional or modern English (Rite I or Rite II). I believe there were some influences of the modern Novus Ordo on the liturgical calendar as well. From what I've seen of this rite online it was very pretty and well executed, not at all prone to any bizarre displays or terrible music. But it would still be foreign to most Anglicans and it is a hybrid of sorts between modern and traditional Catholic liturgy with some Anglican hymns and a few Cranmerian prayers. I have wondered if it was an experimental template for what it is rumored may eventually happen to the Western Catholic Rite, a merging of the Novus Ordo with the traditional Latin Rite. I know that many Anglicans who joined the Ordinariate were not altogether happy with the liturgical situation.