I was at Saint Mary Major's Basilica yesterday evening. I joined parishioners from Our Lady of the Atonement Parish for evensong in the Eucharistic Chapel. Atonement Parish is one of our Anglican Usage churches in San Antonio, Texas. The service was beautiful, with the choir of the Atonement Academy singing. Cardinal Law presided, joined by Archbishop Myers and Bishop Vann, who had invited me to the vespers service at dinner the evening before.
I chatted with some of the members of the choir afterwards, and hope to meet up with them again during their pilgrimage here to Rome. It's significant to see signs of hope even as the Anglican Church in the U.S. and England continues to splinter. All too often redivision is the Protestant solution to conflict, but growing numbers are coming home to the universal Church. Anglicans face a challenge in overcoming centuries of anti-Roman Catholicism--but witnesses to courage continue to emerge.
Friday, September 28, 2007
Major Prayers!
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Interesting; and very true comment that division is not the answer, nor even a reasonable temporary fix, nay, it is a huge problem in its own! If only we protestants knew more about our own history we would see that the reformers we so admire did NOT willfully leave the "universal" church... they were thrown out.
And of course, the question today is, what are we going to do about it? If we see that throughout the Old Testament God was working to form his covenant people, the bride for his Son, manifested in the New, can we accept our fractures as the status quo? Is it enough to casually talk about a 'spiritual' unity, like cohabiting Americans who no longer need some external bond as clumsy as marriage?
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