ACS Publishes Easter 2021 Edition of Shared Treasure

The Easter 2021 Edition of Shared Treasure: the Journal of the Anglicanorum Coetibus Society is now available for purchase at the ACS Amazon store in both print and Kindle formats. Members of the Anglicanorum Coetibus Society have already received an electronic copy via email, and can access this issue and past issues in our journal’s archives. If you’re not an ACS member, consider joining the ACS to receive full access to Shared Treasure and help us further our mission of promoting the Anglican patrimony in the Catholic Church.

Shared Treasure’s editor-in-chief is William Tighe, a professor of history at Muhlenberg College, who offers the following introduction to this latest issue:

It is my pleasure to offer readers the latest issue of Shared Treasure (formerly Anglican Embers) which brings our Volume IV to a close. Unexpected events have delayed its publication for nearly four months, events that call to mind Virgil’s phrase per varios casus, per tot discrimina rerum (“through divers mishaps, through all manner of events”), but which have now ended with an echo of his inveni portum (“I have found a safe harbor”). In recompense, we have an unusually ample and diverse set of articles to lay before you. Fr. James Bradley unpacks the Sunday Advent collects in Divine Worship: the Missal in what we hope will be a series of articles on related liturgical topics, while Fr. John Hunwicke presents a memorial article on Geoffrey Kirk, who while an Anglican priest in the Church of England, was one of the principal animating forces behind combating the “modernist drift” in the Church of England, exemplified particularly in the pretended ordination of women to the priesthood, and who after being received into the Catholic Church in 2012 continued to fight the good fight as his health declined. We have a homily from Fr. Derek Cross of the Toronto Oratory on the canonization of Cardinal Newman, preached on the day of his canonization in 2019, as well as the final installment of the late W. Chave McCracken’s unpublished 1958 analysis of the English Anglican “church political” background of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. In our last issue Fr. John Hunwicke took issue with ACS Board Member Christopher Mahon’s perspective on how best to characterize the liturgical inheritance of the ordinariates erected as consequences of Pope Benedict XVI’s apostolic constitution Anglicanorum coetibus in 2009, expressed in another article “High Thanksgiving for the 10th Anniversary of Our Charter” published in that same issue. In this issue Msgr. Harry Entwistle, the former Ordinary of the Australian “Ordinariate of the Southern Cross” responds more generally on the nature of the spiritual inheritance of the ordinariates. Christopher Mahon offers a response to both critics which focuses in some detail on the question of what it is that makes the ordinariates erected after Pope Benedict’s historic action unique within the Catholic Church. As “ordinariates” they are not unique per se – the Catholic Church has other ordinariates than those stemming from Anglicanorum coetibus – but they exist to foster and embody a unique “patrimony,” the nature of which is not always easy to understand and explain, and which in turn, has occasioned confusion among some Catholics, and puzzlement among those outside the Church.

This journal exists to disseminate knowledge of, and to promote interest in, the nature of the “Anglican patrimony” now for a decade reintegrated into the Catholic Church. We hope that these articles will contribute to fostering a more nuanced and informed appreciation of “the Anglican patrimony” of the three ordinariates created as a result of the 2009 apostolic constitution, especially as the expression of respectful disagreements can often serve as a whetstone for deepening such understanding. It is not the purpose of this journal to engage in controversy for its own sake, or religious polemics, but to embody and foster the “come and see” (John 1:39) which has been the hallmark of Christian and Catholic witness at its best. I thank all of those, and especially our former editor C. David Burt, who have helped to prepare this issue of our journal for publication.

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