I'm RC but love the Ordinariate liturgy. Like you say like the traditional Mass but in English. I attended the Ordinariate Mass for All Saints & All souls days while I was visiting a town which has an Ordinance community. Can one officially switch from RC to the Ordinariate like changing from Latin to Eastern Catholic rites?

@@anthonylangford7797 As I understand it, the Ordinariate is a Roman rite. Remember that they originally broke away from Rome, not an Eastern Orthodox rite. The Ordinariates are jurisdictions, like a diocese, so they are under the same code of canon law as the regular diocese. If you are a regular diocesan Catholic, with no connection to Anglicanism, you can attend an Ordinariate church, and become part of the parish. However, your Bishop will remain your regular diocesan Bishop, not the Bishop in charge of the Ordinariate. It shouldn't make any difference to you, unless you need the services of a Bishop for some reason. I think it needs the Pope's approval for a diocesan Catholic to officially join the Ordinariate and come under the authority of the Ordinariate Bishop, but don't quote me on that.

@@anthonylangford7797we are Roman Rite, Anglican Use. Fully Roman.

Diane Sic gala , the English burnt the original Statue of our Lady

How are these Bishops can accept RC catholic teachings in view of Anglican doctrines? What about RC priests that have married? THEY ARE SIDELINED.

Could it be these new RC bishops are members of Free Masonry or Scottish rite?

Do these men realize that there were Anglican martyrs ?

We‘re Roman Rite too!

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oml I'm creasing, that's hilarious haha

'Yes Father, I suppose it would'

This Q&A answers this! ordinariate.net/q-a The short answer, is that the Ordinariates are not a distinctive Rite within the Church. So, its not like choosing to be baptized Melkite or Latin Rite. The Ordinariates are distinctive within the Latin Rite. So... you may be confirmed into the Church at either an Ordinariate parish, or a closer Catholic Church to you. If you are confirmed at a "regular" Catholic parish, then you are perfectly free to associate with an Anglican Ordinariate parish, just as cradle Catholics are. There's also a group called "Friends of the Ordinariate" you might want to look into. You can be a member of the Ordinariate and only go to services monthly, or however frequently you're able. And just go to ordinary Latin-Rite parishes for everything else.

The RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults - how Adults become Catholic), as far as I can tell won't change between the Ordinariate and the regular RCIA - I'd encourage you to contact the Ordinariate and ask. As a former Anglican, you can go through the RCIA at the local church, and then apply to the Ordinariate later as I did. Ironically, I understand far more about my Anglican upbringing now, being Catholic, than when I did before hand. Pray sincerely, and you will be guided as to your next steps. God bless!

Thanks for the info Vicky.

I know that Anglicans can be accepted into the personal Ordinariates without regularly attending an Ordinariate Parish. I know a few Ordinariate Groups that are simply based in a normal parish of a diocese and they are working toward establishing their own parishes over time. This may be the way to go. The Personal ordinariate is just beginning and it needs good men and women who will help carry it's standard forward!

Thanks for the reply Nick. If you read my response to David above, it should shed more light on my position. I'd be interested if you have more details of the groups that you've mentioned. Thanks.

I had a very similar thought; the ICKSP, especially with their restoration of historic shrines and church buildings in the U.K.

Visiting poster Not FSSP but SSPX the Tridentine Mass would have gone if it wasn't for the four that held it. FSSP are robbers they got educated by SSPX then ran .

I think they have their own seminaries... remember this is not similar to the current novus ordo mass. their liturgy is structured similar to the Old Latin Mass...

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Michael Rossouw How populous is the Anglican Communion there?

@@samlawson6507 Anglicans are one of the major denominations in the country. I believe that the bishop of the Traditional Anglican Communion in South Africa got the Roman Archbishop of Pretoria (himself a former Anglican priest) some years ago, to assure him that the Ordinariate would not be set up in South Africa. I am open to correction here. It seems quite odd to me that countries like Australia, Canada, the USA and Britain have the Ordinariate, but in South Africa, no such provision has been made or for that matter asked for. I asked this question to see if I could get to the bottom of the fact why there is no Ordinariate in South Africa. I guess no group or congregation has approached the Holy See to establish one. Most Anglicans in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, the largest body of Anglicans in the country, are seemingly content with the church as it is. The Traditional Anglican Communion has a strong presence in some areas but is "small" in terms of numbers, but is growing. We already have a number of expressions of Anglicanism in South Africa, the two main ones being The Church of England in South Africa (now the Reformed Evangelical Anglican Church of South Africa) and The Anglican Church of Southern Africa, (formerly the Church of the Province of Southern Africa). Along with the TAC, the Imziwase 'eThiopia, The Ethiopian Episcopal Church of South Africa (formerly the Order of Ethiopia) The Anglican Catholic Church of South Africa (a missionary province of The Anglican Province of America) and others. So, as can be seen, there are a number of expressions of Anglicanism in South Africa, but no Ordinariate.

@@brmichaelth I would not be surprised. It's like the concordat between the Roman Catholic Church and the Polish National Catholic Church (USA) not to accept each other's priests. But, as usual, it's already happened. Not surprise there. 'Nuff said.

You may want to ask one of these ordinaries...

Move to the US, Australia, Japan, Britain..

It's a North Eastern English accent.

Bishop Lopes is from US.

ROMAN is not a pejorative, it is how your denomination called itself before JPII. And the Roman is for the Roman Empire not the city of Rome, that is why Eastern Roman Catholics are Greek Rite and Western Roman Catholics are Latin Rite because of the two halves of the Roman Empire it claimed to be the established/official church of.

@@hesedagape6122 Your remarks are inaccurate and false. The Catholic Church of the Latin Rite only uses 'Roman' to describe the members of the diocese of Rome, or the bishop of that diocese/see, and this has been consistent even in Vatican II documents. Otherwise, we are simply referred to as the 'Catholic Church', and sometimes by specific dioceses or rites. The adjective of 'Roman' was first introduced by the Anglicans to distinguish their church from those of the Latin Rite. Some Orthodox in turn, specially in more recent times, picked up the same use and it is derogatory.

@@TyroneBeiron you cannot be simply referred to as the Catholic Church because no Church is referred to simply as the Catholic Church. The Universal Church is referred to as "The One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church". The Orthodox Catholic Church that you broke away from was the official established denomination of the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire is the See of Rome. Why? Because of your hierarchical episcopacy. The Roman does not refer to Rome because it has ceased to be a reference to only the city of Rome for centuries since the 1st century AD. And Roman is not an insult in European culture. It was called and registered Roman Catholic worldwide until recently they started the change in English. Even so as at the time I was young it was known as Roman. Your noisemaking makes you out as a millennial American. As Germans, Poles, etc have pointed out it is only in recent English circles that the Roman is being surreptitiously dropped. To pin that on Henry VIII is silly and unwarranted. In his day it was the Roman Catholic Church.

@@TyroneBeiron Anglicans apart from Anglo-Catholic factions which is a recent addition does not primarily need that distinction. It was the Church of England until fairly recently when the Anglican Communion was founded. We don't use Catholic in our official name so why would there be a need for a distinction. Essentially when the push came to re-register as the Catholic Church, Protestant Catholic denominations felt it was an affront as they were also Catholics just not Roman Catholics as had been understood for centuries. Orthodox Catholics may be your more likely suspects but at the time of schism they were good. You call them Orthodox or Eastern Orthodox but from Ancient times when they were established by Theodosius II they have been known as Orthodox Catholic Church with documents to back it up so sorry!

@@hesedagape6122 Quite obvious you are sunk deep in your own version and point of view. Whatever language is used, the historical fact remains that there is by institution and unbroken apostolic succession one Catholic Church with various rites or liturgical traditions and many national dioceses in communion with the See of Peter. When ETWN presenters continue to make mistakes in using Protestant terminology, it does not help.