Anglican Use
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The Anglican Use is an adaptation or usage of the liturgy of the Catholic Roman Rite that is used by some formerly Anglican ecclesial communities that submitted to the authority of the Roman Pontiff. Local Anglican (or Episcopalian) communities that submitted communally were permitted to retain certain differences of liturgy derived from the Book of Common Prayer, once it had been edited to remove Protestant influences.
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 allowed Anglican and some other Protestant clergy who joined the Roman Catholic Church to be ordained priests for the Catholic Church despite having been married. The permission to celebrate the Anglican Use and the Pastoral Provision are not neccesarily linked.
The Anglican Use is not to be confused with the Anglican Communion itself, whose member churches do not accept the authority of the Roman Church and are not in full communion with it.
External links
- Unitatis Redintegratio (http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decree_19641121_unitatis-redintegratio_en.html), Decree from Second Vatican Council
- Document establishing the Anglican Use, July 22, 1980 (http://www.atonementonline.com/resource001.html)
- A Place Has Been Prepared: "Anglican Use" Catholic Parishes (article) (http://www.newoxfordreview.org/2001/nov01/charlesmwilson.html)
- Our Lady of the Atonement (Anglican Use) Catholic Church (http://www.atonementonline.com)
- An Anglican Use parish (http://www.walsingham-church.org)
- The Text of the Anglican Use (Walsingham) Mass (http://www.liturgies.net/Liturgies/Catholic/RCCAnglicanUse.htm)