Tiber Swim Team Question

[deepsouthpapist]

I am a fairly recent convert to the Catholic faith from Anglicanism (Tiber Swim Team of 2006) and wondered how the new system for bringing home disaffected Anglicans will work on a logistical basis.

Frankly if I could experience the liturgical traditions of the Anglican communion of my youth and retain my Catholic faith, sign me up!! It may also ease tensions within my family and actually encourage a couple family members to convert.

But where will these new Anglo-Catholic churches be found? I am new to this discussion but

I was hoping someone could shed some light for us Tiber Swim team members.

Many thanks!

[crazzeto]

My understanding is that the whole churches will be converted for all intents and purposes. Essentially, the sign out front would change, as happend, for instance, with the Anglican (or Episcopal? Hard to keep track) nuns that converted. So if you want to experience one of these masses, I would look for a coverted church, currently these are only in england.

[7 Sorrows]

Originally Posted by deepsouthpapist

I am a fairly recent convert to the Catholic faith from Anglicanism (Tiber Swim Team of 2006) and wondered how the new system for bringing home disaffected Anglicans will work on a logistical basis.

Frankly if I could experience the liturgical traditions of the Anglican communion of my youth and retain my Catholic faith, sign me up!! It may also ease tensions within my family and actually encourage a couple family members to convert.

But where will these new Anglo-Catholic churches be found? I am new to this discussion but

I was hoping someone could shed some light for us Tiber Swim team members.

Many thanks!

hi deepsouthpapist! i also am a recent convert to the Catholic faith - 2008 was the year for me. i grew up in the episcopal church, left for many years, returned, split with a group to form an anglican church and then converted to catholicism. this is a wonderful offer the Pope has made and, like you, i hope someday to be able to experience the liturgical traditions of the Anglican communion while still practicing the Catholic faith. it will probably take awhile, especially here in America, for these churches to develop or to have anglican use masses available, so i don't really have any definitive answers for you, but, i think we are all going a step in the right direction!

[Joe Kelley]

Originally Posted by crazzeto

My understanding is that the whole churches will be converted for all intents and purposes. Essentially, the sign out front would change, as happend, for instance, with the Anglican (or Episcopal? Hard to keep track) nuns that converted. So if you want to experience one of these masses, I would look for a coverted church, currently these are only in england.

There are seven in the U.S. I think; some are in Texas, the others in Massachusetts/

[olivet]

Better read the documents. I don't think current RCC parishioners will be permitted to move their membership to an Ordinariate church. Sad, but that's the way it reads to me.

[katy]

Father Longenecker, a married convert former Anglican priest, now Catholic, has an excellent blog called "Standing on My Head" where he addresses some of these questions.