Anglican Use

Anglican Use is a term used within Catholic theology to refer to Anglican ecclesial communities that have become reconciled with the Catholic Church. This reunion became a formal possibility in 1980. Anglican (or Episcopalian) churches are now able to become particular churches within the Catholic Church. They use the Roman Canon of the Mass, instead of the adaptations to the liturgy of Thomas Cranmer. ¹

The Anglican Use rite is often erroneously associated with the Anglican Communion, which is not in full communion with the Roman Church (a particular church within the Catholic Church). The Anglican Use and the Anglican Communion are distinct, as can be seen in Anglican newsletters [1] (http://www.themessenger.com.au/news.html) and in listings of "Anglican" parishes. [2] (http://societies.anglican.org/anglocatholic/parishes.htm) A condition for reconciliation in order to become "Anglican Use" is "[a] profession of faith (with appropriate additions to address the points on which there is divergence of teaching between the Anglican Communion and the Catholic Church) ... to be made personally by all (ministers and faithful)...." [3] (http://www.atonementonline.com/resource001.html)

External Links

• Unitatis Redintegratio (http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decree_19641121_unitatis-redintegratio_en.html), Decree from Second Vatican Council
• Document establishing the Anglican Use, July 22, 1980 (http://www.atonementonline.com/resource001.html)
• A Place Has Been Prepared: "Anglican Use" Catholic Parishes (article) (http://www.newoxfordreview.org/2001/nov01/charlesmwilson.html)
• An Anglican Use parish (http://www.walsingham-church.org)

• ¹ Robert Ian Williams, "The Anglican Use: An Alternative View", The Latin Mass Magazine (http://www.latinmassmagazine.com/), Vol. 13, No. 1, Winter 2004, pp. 36-41.