The Cracked Jar - Healing the Western Church
The Cracked Jar - Healing the Western Church
by Peregrinus
http://peregrinus-peregrinus.blogspot.com/2011/03/cracked-jar-healing-western-church_27.html
March 27, 2011
At the Canadian Ordinariate Conference this weekend, Fr. Aidan Nichols, OP was enormously helpful in his patient and scholarly explanation of how the Church in England, and by extension the Anglican Communion, experienced trauma - the "breaking of the jar" - in the 16th century Western schism of the Church. Now the difficult and groundbreaking effort of mending the jar has begun with the inauguration of ordinariates for Anglicans who represent one shard of the broken vessel.
The inauguration in January of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in the UK signifies, Fr. Nichols said, bringing the Anglican shard together with the Recusant shard - those who maintained communion with the Western or Latin Rite of the Church from the 16th through the 20th century.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
by Peregrinus
http://peregrinus-peregrinus.blogspot.com/2011/03/cracked-jar-healing-western-church_27.html
March 27, 2011
At the Canadian Ordinariate Conference this weekend, Fr. Aidan Nichols, OP was enormously helpful in his patient and scholarly explanation of how the Church in England, and by extension the Anglican Communion, experienced trauma - the "breaking of the jar" - in the 16th century Western schism of the Church. Now the difficult and groundbreaking effort of mending the jar has begun with the inauguration of ordinariates for Anglicans who represent one shard of the broken vessel.
The inauguration in January of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in the UK signifies, Fr. Nichols said, bringing the Anglican shard together with the Recusant shard - those who maintained communion with the Western or Latin Rite of the Church from the 16th through the 20th century.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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