For Pontiff Benedict the Magnificent, we bless and thank you, oh Godhead our God!
In the our last station, Traditional Anglicans say "I do"
, we holded resumed so the historical events of October 20, 2009:
Earlier today, we holded been astounded (... ) by the declaration in the Vatican and in England that Pontiff Benedict Sixteen will release an Apostolic Constitution placing the juridic construction for Anglicans returning to the Catholic Church, which the Note of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith
stated will affect the hard-on of personal ordinariates. A Joint Statement
was besides readied by Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, caput of the Anglican church, and the Catholic Archbishop of Westminster admiting that the Constitution was a response to Anglicans who will `` accept the Petrine ministry as willed by Deliverer for his Church ''
So,
[ I ] in a rattlingly locomoting message, `` Traditional Anglican Communion Responds to Pope's Offer of Ecclesiastical refuge
posted ( here
) on Virtue Online
, Archbishop Toilet Hepworth, Hierarch of the Traditional Church of england, named the declaration of the Apostolic Constitution `` an enactment of great good '' and generousness.
Then,
The leader of Traditional Anglicans holds declared that the procedure of reunion with Roma `` will get at once ''
Our input: We are beyond words. The annunciation of the Constitution intends a great many things that can barely be observed in one short station, and which we can justly, for want of stuff clip, itemise thence:
- That policy-setting in the Church on inter-religious things holds, at least this once, switched offly from the old oecumenic organization ( see Damian Thompson
- That this presages an attack to ecumenism that definitively renounces practical indifferentism and declines to permit dialog and common action vague fidelity to the truth;
- That the Church holds done her place clear: evangelism ( salvaging psyches ) trumps oecumenism;
- That the Church holds ( at least momently ) table the chance for a general reconciliation with the Anglican church 's nominal leading, given the increasing apostasy of their policies
- That the Pontiff is therefrom reminding the faithful that the Great Committee is the surest therapeutic for the macrocosm 's Great Renunciation ( and maybe excessively for the `` post-conciliar '' Great Confusion );
- That the territorial principle may no longer be the "default" jurisdictional framework
of the one true Churc h
, with a world-wide system of non-geographical ordinariates
being added to the prelacies and apostolical disposals that already pepper the bishoprics and eparchies ( on which, see Father de Souza
- That this is yet another edifying outcome of the advanced thought ofSt. Josemaria Escriva to launch a nonterritorial personal prelacy for Piece Dei, the blessing of which got the precedent that conducted to the coming Apostolic Constitution;
- That this is ( we believe ) the first clip a general juridic model for organisational
reunion with the Church holds been ordained for a Protestant grouping, whereas such norms holded been in situ for schismatical Eastern churches for centuries;
- That, effectively, the Pontiff is making
a Catholic liturgical tradition out of a Protestant one and adding it to the great home of traditions of E and Occident, something ne'er maked earlierly for Protestant Eucharist salve in advertizement hoc
cases ( and mayhap? peradventure? he Holds besides posing the foundation for the eventual creation in the Catholic Church of an existent Anglican patriarchate,
or at least something with an archbishop-major );
- That this predicts a new attack to evangelism that may prove fruitful, especially as the quickening motility of `` mainline '' Protestant bodies towards relativism estrange observant members, of which Conservative Lutherans
are Exhibit Angstrom;
- That how any reunion plays out will work the possibility and intends for corporate reunion with Rome by the schismatical Eastern ( Orthodox ) and Western ( Tridentine ) churches and by the several Protestant communities;
- That while Anglo-Catholicism will keep ( because certainly not all will accommodate with Roma ), the return of many from the High anglican church to the one true Church will likelily guide to the irreversible weakening of conservative Anglicanism and, once their place gets indefensible, the fissioning of the Depression Church flying offly from the numerically powerful liberalist;
- That the policy of Pontiff Benedict Sixteen follows a definite tendency that alters from, but besides build upon, the policies of Pontiff Karol wojtyla, with Pontiff Privy Paul doing a first response with advertizing hoc
agreements vulnerable to local refractoriness (e.g., Anglican usage, Ecclesia Dei
) that Pontiff Benedict 16 transforms into juridically more stable systems ( the new Apostolic Constitution, Summorum Pontificum
- That Pontiff Benedict XVI 's unprecedented action presents his willingness to look `` out of the box '' for superb pastoral solutions; and
- That, so, Pontiff Benedict XVI-Pope Benedict the Magnificent- is a great gift to the Church from our merciful Maker.
For Pontiff Benedict the Magnificent, we bless and thank you, oh Godhead our God!
In amount, if things locomote as planned, our journeying to God through Redeemer in His Church will be joined by many more sises and brothers. Such is the at least incipient fruit of this brave enactment of the Bishop of rome. Praise the Jehovah for He is good; His love is everlasting!
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