Andrew Petiprin, Fellow in Popular Culture at the Word on Fire Institute, joins Creedal's Zac Crippen to talk about his journey from a priest in The Episcopal Church to Catholic layman. Other topics discussed include why "too Catholic to be Catholic" fails, the "two lungs theory" versus the "branch theory," the Catholic Church's Ordinariate for the Anglican tradition, Petiprin's work at Word on Fire, Mare of Easttown, and an exciting collaboration coming up.
There are four keys to successful evangelization and six proven actions Ordinariate parishes can take to meet the challenge of evangelizing their communities.
The 2022 Ordo Kalendars produced by John Covert correspond exactly to the ordo for the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter and reflects a patrimonial design inherited from The Episcopal Church.
EXCEPRT: "Of all the breviaries and office books on my shelves none is more handsome than Divine Worship: Daily Office (DWDO), which arrived on 20th September 2021. It is beautifully produced, with clear type, and thin pages. It marks a re-set, a change of direction for the UK Ordinariate, which had previously been using the Customary of Our Lady of Walsingham, published in 2012. To state an interest, I was one of the compilers of the Customary ... The work has passed to a new generation and the underlying rationale has been revised."
The Wesleyan Method emphasized frequent reception of Holy Communion. A related but distinct non-Eucharistic service from the Methodist tradition called ‘the Love Feast’ can help Catholics in the Ordinariates evangelize, engage in ecumenical outreach, and build Christ-centered community.
Ordinariate Solemn Mass for the feast of Our Lady of Walsingham, organized by The Durandus Institute, is broadcasting on social media from St. Vincent Ferrer church in New York City on Friday, September 24.
One of the most notable features of the Anglican liturgical and musical patrimony is that the people sing. The Anglican patrimony has much to teach the wider Church about how to get Catholics back into the lost art of congregational singing.
As a Protestant convert to the Catholic Church, I have found the Anglican Patrimony, as expressed in the Book of Common Prayer and the King James Bible, to be the ‘bridge’ that made my transition between the two opposing sides of Latin Christendom possible.
The annual meeting of the Anglicanorum Coetibus Society will be held virtually and discuss the society's past activities and future projects to advance the Anglican patrimony in the Catholic Church.
This issue of the Bulletin on Divine Worship, which seeks to assist the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham's clergy and faithful in the prayerful and reverent celebration of the Ordinariate's distinctive liturgical rites, focuses on the new Commonwealth edition of the Divine Worship - Daily Office.
Small group parish dinner fellowship, or “moveable feasts” as they are sometimes known, can be a real opportunity for building community and evangelization.
The U.K. Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham is hosting an hour Facebook Live Q&A on Sunday, Sept. 19, for the new Divine Worship: Daily Office (Commonwealth edition) which is now available from The Catholic Truth Society.
True unity comes from God and is not something created by man, the bishop of the Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter stressed at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast on Tuesday in Washington, D.C.
The Ember Days are four seasonal times of prayer and fasting in the Catholic Church, and an ancient part of the Ordinariate's English Christian patrimony.
An approved ESV-CE lectionary did not exist at the time the Ordinariates were established. Now the Vatican has approved an ESV-CE lectionary, its adoption should be seriously considered to help advance the Ordinariates mission of ecumenical unity.
Review: What is the Anglican Patrimony? While not the only question addressed in The Anglican Patrimony in Catholic Communion: The Gift of the Ordinariates, the book focuses on how the patrimony is a many-splendored gift in the Catholic Church.
Anglican bishop Jonathan Goodall's decision to come into full communion with the Catholic Church lends important insights into ecumenism and the Church's traditions. (Catholic Answers)
The Ordinariates for the Anglican tradition can fulfill Pope Francis’s vision for evangelizing post-Christian societies by drawing on the Wesleys and their Method as part of their patrimony.
Jonathan Goodall, the Anglican Bishop of Ebbsfleet, announced last week that he will step down from his office on September 8, and that he intends to enter full communion with the Catholic Church. The Pillar interviewed Fr. James Bradley, a former Church of England deacon, now a Catholic priest and Assistant Professor of Canon Law at the Catholic University of America, about how an Anglican becomes Catholic.