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are indeper Church, dent churches but Lhey have Use is not itself. Church

Catholic

Church,

for example, and liturgies. liturgical

that are in communion own canon

with the Roman

Catholic

laws, bishops,

The Anglican tradition, analogous then

Ceotibus and the Church

of Our Lady of the Atonement, Catholic Church,

such an entity, but rather Seeking compiled to preserve a colieClion con text of the Roman Common

is part of the Roma!if"'Catho!ic

the Founding

Parish of Anglican Use in the Roman

an Episcopal Cathol ic Church of rituals

but Within the to the Book of for the interim

Feast of St. David of wales, 1 March 2011 A.. nglicanism is sometimes called "Catholic-lite" because of its retenuon

in the U ni ted States, a com mi tLee

and ruhrics and

Prayer. Therefore, of Divine

in 1984, the CDF allowed 'Vorshipt,

ora formalized liturgy and bishops, elements the sixteenth-century European reformations Among Church Anglicans, of England

that churches born during often did not perpelll1te.

use of the Book

in 1987 gave it final

there have always been some who longed for the to re-establish full communion wilh the Roman Cathmake this appear has gradually and then with Rome, to be an impossibility new avenues groups tohaving been approached Church priests, by Anglicans opened for entire over the decades, for Anelements of Anglicans,

approval. "This document allowed elements of the older Prayer Book of 1928, but the Eucharistic liturgy was taken only from the 1979 Book of Common Prayer with the interpolation of the Roman EIJcharistic English Canons and the ancient Sarum Canon (with the modern 'Words of Instituuon: from the Nouns onto missae iuseuerl}.':" The Book of Divine '.-Vorship is clearly modeled man Prayer; containing morning, contains John noonday, the names many of the same elements, including

olic Church, the Roman glican to enter

but lllany factors Catholic

day. Nonetheless,

after the Book of Comorders 10(' Drexel and in its ..The calendar

and Episcopal

into full couurumiou and tradition.

while also retaining

and evening prayers, as well as compline of va rio us American

of their heritage

saints like Katharine

Neumann,

which reminds

us that the Book of Divine Worship,

The Pastoral On 22July gregation archbishop Episcopalians 1980, Franjo for the Doctrine

Provision

of John

Paid II of the Sacred Quinn, regarding Conthencertain

first edition,

was publ ished specifically for lise in the Un ired States ofAmer-

Cardinal of Faith

Seper, (CDF),

prefect

lea. The Feast Day ofSt. Augustine of Canterbury is a mandatory feast, and not an optional one, Anglo-Catholic figures like Lancelot Andrewes and John Keble are absent. The cycle of readings is for two years. There <Ire two rites for the Eucharist. In addition to the Eucharistic rite, the liturgies for Holy Baptism, Holy Matrimony and the Bur-ial of the Dead follow As with the Eucharist, very close
[Q

norifiedJohn

of San Francisco, that the CDF had decided, "who seek reconciliation with and entrance

into the Catholic

Church," that "pastoral provision" should be made so that such groups will be able to continue 10 maintain a "common identity." Furthermore, the "re-ordinauon of Episcopal clergy, even those who arc married, shall be allowed.: ." Put into practice only in the United States, such a pastoral provision resulted only from a specific request in Eugtaoc from a college of bishopsAustralia, and and the colleges of bishops and Wales, Canada,

there are two rites for each of those. The two rites are being that the first rite uses English

each other, the difference

contemporaneoLls with the J(..ingJames Bible, and the second rite uses contemporary English. Notably absent from the Book of Divine worship are liturgies for ordinations The Psalter is present, the Book of Common temporary con firmation, in both traditional Prayer; there and the reconciliation and contemporary catechism revised, being is no minor of a peniten
L

forms ..Unlike near the end. and the conwho

elsewhere had not issued such a request. An im portan t aspect of the con tiu ua tion of a common creation United of an Anglican States. The Use within word the Roman to enter Catholic precise

ic\en Litywas the Church Catholic in the aland Church

The Book of Divine Worship

is currently

rite may well be eliminated,

But one of the indivicillals

use is important,
rile. The Greek

as the provision Catholic Church

lowed [or priests

and individuals

the Roman

and did not establish

a different

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I The Book of Divine Worship can be downloaded in PDF form at www, atonementoniine.com/bodwpbp (accessed 3 March 201 I). ~Jack D. Barker, "The Pastoral Provision for Roman Catholics in the USA", 1993. Accessed 3 March 2011 <www,slmarythevirgin.org/jackbarkel:hlm> Note that Fr. Barkel"lI'as present ar many of the events that led up 10 the issuance ofthe Pastoral Provision in 1980, and thus has first-hand knowledge of the events.

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Into this traditional evangelicals space,

was on the committee pastor Texas.

that produced

[he first Book of Divine Worship of the congregation Church, College) Sarum

of the Church

of Our Lady of the Atonement of the Episcopal of England. children.

He has been

the pastor

in 1983. While an ordinand and Wells College of the Church

by a bishop

city where the Roman Catholic Church and conservative hold a great deal of sway this man stepped. So he and the congregation and eventually main in the Episcopal Church. several of the parish loners decided Nonetheless,
Oil

ied at Salisbury

(now called

that had called him mer in rented 15 August

His first cure was in the States, was marthis rime he was Church. Church to into During

that they wished to re198~, at the to the Roman made profcsof Confirm a-

of Bristol. Eventually

he returned

to the United

ried, and he and his wife had three living in Rhode that he must enter into full cornrnunion Some say that Anglo-Catholics form the so-called "continuing with Rome,

Island, and by the late 1970s had come to the conclusion with the Roman Catholic churches," who split off from the Episcopal Anglican did so because Convention of a more of women already affirmation of the one, tenable, Roman

Cathedral Church of San Fernando, the man was ordained Catholic priesthood, and the seventeen other individuals sions of fairh. A few weeks later they received lion. The pastor original members the sacrament

or who entered

chuckled as he explained that five of the eighteen were his family. The congregation took the name of as the archdiocese already had multiple as is the city of San Antonio itself and Anglitano/'/(1/l
Coctibus

full communion
innovation women explained

they were disaffected

interview,

by the
of

of the 1976 General that this is a caricature th a t rhe ordination Anglo-Catholics theory proposes

to allow the ordination complex was rather which

Our Lady of the Atonement ishes named after Anthony,

par-

to the priesthood.

But during

an extended

the pastor

series of events. a verification was that the ordina(The threeand Orthodox and catholic ordi-

Our Lady of the Atonement The unusual Marian tant history behind Wanson founded length it in regards

He explained of what some "three-branch" branch form church theory the three

title "Our Lady of the Atonement" to Anglican-Cuholic founded community

has an imporThe title

snspectecl,

relations.

was no longer
t hat Anglicans,

and that women's Catholics,

goes back to a Franciscan

in 1898 by the Rev. Paul

tion was simply a resounding "branches"

of that suspicion. holy, apostolic, In other

and Mother Lurana White. The Society of the Atonement was within the Episcopal Church with the explicit goal of seeking with the See of Peter, and in 19J 9 Fr. Wauson of this title. He stated explained at
10

reconciliation

described

in the Nicene

Creed.)

words, women's

the significance

that Mary was devoted

nation was simply a rather indicated that. .-\nglicanisrn catholic orthodoxy. vine revelation," as the

noticeable symptom of a deeper disease: it had no one authority capable of enforcing was "governed said. Once by democracy, the Pastoral not. by diwas pastor Provision

the atonement because it was her son's death that brought itabout. Also, because Mary is "inseparably associated" with Jesus I hrough rhe incarnation, she is also "closely associated" with him in his atoning death on the cross. Moreover, it is through the atonement that she became the Second Eve and the "mother of all the regenerate.':" The Society of the Atonement Atonement and the Franciscan is at Greymoor; entered into full comrnunion of the Franciscan with [he See of Peter in ]909. The society, consisting their headquarters reconciliation Friars ofthe

The church

issued, the pastor traveled up and down New England trying TO find a Roman Catholic bishop who would re-ordaiu him and lise his nor inconsiderable leaching au d leadership bishops skills. His requests were concerned were turned ecumenical down, relaas the Roman Catholic about

Sisters of the Atonement, in Ganison,

still exists and in IR98, with

tionships with Episcopalians. During the same period, mostly from the still-extant decided Rome. They invited

New York. The Friars' web-

in San Antonio, Episcopal parishes enter their

Texas, several parishioners, ofSt Paul's and St Andrew's, into full communion small congregation, with Saint

site (atonementfriars.org) through

states their vision, "Since its inception atonement-the

unity or men and women

that they would, as a conununity, this priest to lead

God and with one another-has been rhe mission of the Friars' work and ministries to people of every race, religion, and walk of lire."

Anthony's Anglican Catholic Church. After a visit he accepted the invitation, and injanuary of19R2 he and his family moved 10 San Antonio, a city founded as a series of five Roman River. Four of them Catholic missions located along the San Antonio are still functioning parishes in the
3 Quoted in Christopher Phillips, "Witness (0 the Atonement", 2010. Accessed on 03 March 2011 <www theanglocarhol ic.com/20 I(I/07/wiu1ess-tothe-atonement,">

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our in terview, comments to Fr. wanson to the Roman which that given the fact that Church, to found. it is a most while the ordinariate church." parish in the United title was revealed brought name while still in the Episcopal Catholic he helped

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will not. have a cathedral, States, with a successful

~()I

The pastor. during and then

i t will have a "principal Use loto

10

Our Lady of the Atonement:

is by far the largest Anglican school and daily chapel, not unreasonable

for the parish

cated in a major American once it is established.

city, and it is therefore

Bishops within both the Church of Englaml and the Traditional Anglican Communion (founded in 1991, but not in C0ll111111nionwith Canterbury) had approached the Roman curia on multiple occasions over the years seeking 10 explore the possibility or what we might call an expansion of the Pastoral Provision ment, as a parish, ficial orjuridicaJ otWalsingham Traditional groups thing more Anglican Catholic dencies, of John Paul Il. For instance,
to other Anglican

guess that this parish may well be the principal be the ordinary, he chuckled asks me to do," and changed him seeking full communion their liturgy and tradition. of Episcopalians property sive amounts entering and answered: rhe topic.

church

of the ordinariate
t

When I asked the pastor ifhe migh

be appointed

"l'H do what ever the pope had approached or

Our Lady of the Atoneand has no oflike Our Lady also and someliLUrgy an of England

One reason that the pope issued AC was that Anglicans It appears

is under connections

the archbishop

of San Antonio, Use parishes Church

with his see, but wished to retain elements the ordinariate while retaining their

that, for the most pan, the prospects church

10

in Houston, Anglican

Texas, or St. Mary the Virgin in Arlington, ncar Boston. Whatthese bishops parish were seeking Church

in Texas, or St. Arhanasius of Anglicans

\0

are dim, as the presiding

bishop and her arrorncy have spent masfrom congregations in England leaving a building with

Communion enter

was a way for

or funds to retain real property As the nascent ordinariate

the Catholic

but enjoying

join otherjurisdictions, no congregation. formed in january a reliable indicator

even when that entails inheriting

than the status of a normal diocese. with its

llsing an abnormal individuals cathedrals, Constitution

and Wales. just

withi n the Catholic Churches,

The most optimistic

OWI1

envisioned

rite, similar to the aforementioned bishops, daring move for someone

Greek Catholic dioceses, known

and Maronite and liturgy. tenallows of Anglimnoordinariare:

of 2011, has only a handful of members, it is not yet of what this mix of Anglican and Latin Chrisrianuics vel)' robust period growth of lime of AC ofCiuhor 01 episexperience Moreover, of what it looks like for the instructions

will look like. But this parish, which has experienced since the early 1980s, has a genuine Anglican within patrimony the Roman and tradition Catholic Church.

In a rather

for his traditionalist

Pope Benedict

XVI issued the Apostolic

to exist over a sustained

nun coeubus (AC) in Rorne, on '" November for the creation a jurisdiction of the novel juridical with an ordinary,

2009. This constitution

eruiry of the personal

10

mean that, unlike with the Pastoral olic bishops not to erect an ordinariate. copal conferences Provision of John

Provision, the local conference

who would have many of the privileges

is nor the body that makes the determination

of whether

a bishop, but one that would be personal, which is determined not by physicallocation but by connection

say membership to a person, in this

Let us recall that it was the reticence

case the ordinary, One might liken this to a military diocese, but such a diocese, while non-territorial, will normally have a bishop as its ordinary. The ordinariates any priest, established has a married be established conference nariate. envisioned by Angliauumtm Coetibus a bishop; Lady of Walsingham the physical may be headed by nor necessarily to date-s-Our the one ordinariate in England Funhennore, territory to have been and \'Valesto Catholic Slates,

outside the U.S. that made it impossible for the Pastoral Paul IT to take effect in their synodal regions. Rather;

under AC, the erection of an ordinariate is the prerogative of'the pope, who has delegated that authority to the Congregation of Divine Faith. In terms of mission-c-establishing vents, monasteries-the meetings oflcaclers, jng all of this. Furthermore, In other words, according go from being a rather being uniLedjuridically the while remaining new Anglican it is planned Use parishes, that there schools, convision is that there will be one person both ordained and Jay, who belong coordtn.u-

priest for its first ordinary. will be within which of bishops,

the ordinariates of a Roman in the United as well. like Our

will be regular Use parish will diocese,

to

to the ordinariate. Catholic

is why England

and Wales have one ordi-

to present

plans, each Atlglican to other

Proponents

of AC envision

ordinariates

odd entity in a conventional and missionally alchemy

Canada, and Australia, and perhaps other regions The practical significance of this for a parish Atonement according Use parishes, is that, once an ordin ariate is established to present plans, the parish have one ordinary who has j II risdiction

such congregations,

all

Lady of the Slates, Anglican

within the Catholic Church. the experience ofOLA

OLA offers some insights has been nothing less than now

in the United

into what this ecumenical In tertns of grcwth. extraordinary. What started

may look like down the road. space and eighteen people

will, along with all other

over it. Furthermore,

with rented

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has about six hundred

families and owns a large plant of about one hunthat footage. The church On Sunday there arc four there are two weekday for the The first church been

St. Alban, and the Venera hIe Bcdc. those of Mal)" Patrick, and Joseph. of stndems. towards who Re-

square feel, with plans to double

of the church and images church dressed

to the right is a small Lady Chapel in uniform manner,

itselfhas a capacity ofa little over five hundred. masses: a Low Mass (lite f), two Solemn ing Latin Mass using the students. There
NOVllS

various statues Around enter nacle, deacon, that the entire quietly about

High Masses (rite I), and an even-

9:15 children

stan filteting in. Ry the time the taberand the from the mass. III Front the

onto. Additionally,

has been filled with the hundreds genuflecting more minutes pass, and then

masses said daily, one of which building was constructed expanded considerably.

is at 9:15 a.m. and is primarily morning.

and in an orderly fifteen

is also a Low Mass on Saturday

toO

the mass begins. enter

in 1987, when the church Tn 1994, after finding

had about fort)' famschools

markably,

the children wearing

sit quieLly during and dalmauc.

this lime. The priest respectively, during

ilies, it was, said the pastor, "far

big for us." It has, since then, the local Catholic

a chasuble

rear. The weekday mass is not a solemn is no incense, addition

lO

high mass, so unlike Sunday there the entire a dozen or so people

less than ideal for sundry reasons, he decided that [he parish should start. a school, and the Atonement Academy was founded with sixty-six students, providing education eight). for kindergarten middle, through third grade (roughly ages four through and includes As of 2011, it n umbers start a school? over five h undred students

and the priest wears his chasuble the students there are perhaps

community sitting near the back of the church (which is the only place where there is space). A student reads from Sirach 35:I-l2 ("He who keeps the law makes many offerings ... "}, we sing the K)'1ie in English, the psalm is sung, and the deacon reads Mark 10:28-31.

elementary,

and high schools.

Why did the pastor "lfwe are serious

feel that he should

Iasked. He answered,

Catholics, we need to train our students and children in it." The daily student mass fills the enure church and some of the choir, and I have to sit all the way in the back, in the last pew, to allow room [or the students. The Church and the Litmgy The main doors to the church lead into a narthex of interest, Catholic From there congregation, from Church's the school's teaching are large, heavy, and painted children's choirs red. They topics where one can pick up information multiple on birth control and natural on various

The short homily is almost entirely concerned

of Wales. The priest explained Welsh Roman under number presented ancestry. Catholics And then, in their States in a perfect traditions, example

with (he life OfSL David he has some young who the P'" Mary. Yes, but Here a large arc of educating a guess,

that he likes David because he asked the students Conception. Andrew. answered,

tron of the United of England? is the patron

[0

is, and a few venture

the title of the Immaculate George. And Scotland? of the studen ts energetically the students.

And who is the Patron And ireland? "Patrick!" Similarly, David

to the Roman

family planning.

of Wales, and some selected

stories from his biography

the visitor walks into the long, dark nave. The walls are dark is blue with criss-crossing lines in gold. The loft above and

The homily concludes

with the priest men lion-

wood, as arc the pews. The ceiling, which meets at an angle high above the behind the congregation are various stained-glass styles. There
q

ing one of the sayings of David on the Sunday before he died, when he told his flock to "Do the little things you have seen me do." And this, the priest said, is a reminder 1.0 those present that sometimes what is important to God and for our lives as Christians are not the things that I he worldjudges to be important. A hymn is sung before the liturgy of the Eucharist begins: "God himself is with us, let LIS all adore him." The hymn is led hy the student choir and the skilled organist. choir is responsible of the hymn indicates the many students The school has many choirs, and each day a different for the mass. The small piece ofpaper the text is by Gerhardt melody.
F01l11

accommodates a choir as large as eighty. There windows up and down the nave done in different Anglican design, the board above it, the altar is be, right against during

is a raised pulpit to the len, in the traditional a cup of wine with a sounding and is, in the medieval traditiou This is one way in which

shapecllike

hind the rood screen,

wall, so the priest and the deacon the liturgy of the Eucharist. from the Roman Catholic

face away from the congregation

the litHrgy differs with various is closed, the the

with the words and the tune is is used, as receive

Nouns ovdo. Above the altar is a large triptych

Tersteegan,

in bronze, enamel, and oil paint. II depicts Christ theJlldge instruments of his passion. During Lent, when the triptych Annunciation is depicted in shades triptych of grey. In addition includes depictions figure of Christ, the open

called Tysk, an old German commune

II of the Eucharist the Lord's

the organist

plays; all the students

to the dominant of S1. Gregory

communion kneeling. During the Eucharist plainsong, and we sing the Agnus Dei.

Prayer is sung in

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no, but that the plan is for one hymnal for all [he ordinartates to eventually be published. At the moment though, cians who work for the church and academy sources, including Episcopal about hymnals. particularly Anglican the vestments the four professional musimay choose From multiple the

The liturgy would be accessible are a few additions

anyone

familiar

with the Episcopal

not found

in the Book of Common

Prayer, but which would be found in Anglican missals influenced by the Oxford Movement. For instance, "Pray, brethren, that our sacrifice would be acceptable heard at an Episcopal
to God,

When asked if there was anything of the priest and deacon, being used all

the almlgtny Another

Father,"

is sornething

rarely is

church.

example

of such an element

the triple repetition of "Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof, but speak the word only, andmy soul shall be healed." But note that the English is slightly different than the customary response in the Noons ordo: "Lord, r am not worthy to receive you, but only say the word and I shall be healed," During the interview with the church's pastor he explains prayer that the only element books or from He also explains of the mass that does not come an Anglo-Catholic that [he English missal is the of translation from one of the prayer of consecration.

pastor says no, that they are the same sort of vestments over San Antonio in Catholic parishes.

Upon reflecting on the forthcoming ot-dinari.ue in the United Slates, the Church of Our Lady of the Atonement appears 10 be a positive indicater for growth and mission. A church started with eighteen people has grown to six hundred especially families and a school with five hundred students,
0111'

two Lady long

daily masses, and four Sunday of the Atonement

masses. Much of the Episcopal has been preserved. heritage within

tradition, the Roman

in terms of liturgy and hymnody, is a place where Anglican

the Biblical verses like the one just mentioned (d. 1569). After the mass is over the students rooms. An altar boy wealing the candles

is that of Miles Coverdale

to their

Cal holic Church is neither new nor experimen tal, but has flourished enough to become part of the tradition of the Catholic Church. Duane Alexander Miller University

file out, returning

class-

a reel choir cassock and surplice the quiet, wooded

extinguishes of students neighborhood by con-

of Texas at San Antonio

on the altar. The priest stays to hear confessions and academy m-e located.

and the visitor goes for a walk around where the church his schedule,

The pastor hears confession and the lime is determined significance to healing

from each class of the school once a month, so there is no speciallheological

fessions after mass. The experience is one ofa living strain of Anglican within the Roman Catholic Church.

tradition

and lirurgy sense of con-

The visitor lias a strong

nection to the Anglo-Catholic tradition in terms of music and luurgy. Moreover, the Anglican tradition in question is not hypothetical or under construction, which seems to be the case with the orc\inariate of Our Lady of"Valsinghal11 in England and Wales. As the pastor notes during the interview, the church only ever known is in a position and not just at the moment. where there are young adults who have Access into the are a bit of Anglicanism But other for instance, brought the Anglican liturgical Use, for them the Prayer ofHumble

is Roman
Roman under

Catholic, Catholic

tradition.

parts of the tradition

evaluation

the Book of Divine Wor-

ship is presently being edited and updated by a committee directed from Rome. The Pastor is not on that committee, bur. he acts as a consultant to it. It appears that the pope and CDF envision a single Anglican Use for any and all Anglophone ordinariates that may be erected over the coming years. When asked if the church uses a specific hymnal the priest says