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| | Anglican Communion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Anglican Communion is a world-wide organization of Anglican Churches. | | | There is no single "Anglican Church" since each national or regional church has full autonomy; as the name suggests, rather, the Anglican Communion is an association of these churches in full communion with each other and particularly with the Church of England, which may be regarded as the "mother church" of the worldwide communion. | | | There are also a number of Anglican bodies which separated from a member church of the Anglican Communion and are no longer in communion with the Church of England. |
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| | Anglican Communion |
| | The Anglican Communion is a world-wide organisation of Anglican Churches, and refers to all of the Christian churches that share the dogma and doctrine of the Church of England. | | | The ultimate head of any Anglican church is believed to be Jesus Christ, with his representative taken to be the Primate, head of the church at the national level; but Anglican primates acknowledge the leadership of the Archbishop of Canterbury as primus inter pares, or "first among equals". | | | There is no single "Anglican Church"; it is better to speak of the Anglican Communion, which consists of national churches in communion with the Church of England. |
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http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/a/an/anglican_communion.html
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| | Encyclopedia: Anglican Use |
| | The Anglican Communion is a world-wide organization of Anglican Churches. | | | The Anglican Use is not to be confused with the Anglican Communion itself, whose member churches do not accept the authority of the Roman Church and are not in full communion with it. | | | The adapted liturgy of the Anglican Use is contained in the Book of Divine Worship. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Anglican-Use
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| | SingaporeMoms - Parenting Encyclopedia - Anglicanism |
| | Anglicanism is most commonly identified with the established Church of England, but Anglican churches exist in most parts of the world. | | | The Anglican Communion codifies the Anglican relationship to the Church of England as a theologically broad and often diverging community of churches, which holds the English church as its mother institution. | | | The official position of the Church of England claims explicitly that the Church "upholds the Catholic faith." It emphasisizes its status of full communion with the Old Catholic Church — a small community of churches that split from the Roman Catholic church in 1870. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Anglicanism |
| | By forming a catena of Anglican High Church divines of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries on one side, and a catena of certain Fathers on the other, it was hoped that a quasi-continuous chain of Catholic tradition could be made to connect the Anglican Church of their day with Catholic antiquity. | | | A term used to denote the religious belief and position of members of the established Church of England, and of the communicating churches in the British possessions, the United States (see E | | | Its influence has survived in the unceasing flow of converts to the Catholic Faith, and is shown in the Anglican Church itself by the notable change of belief, temperament, and practice which is known as the Anglican Revival. |
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| | The Anglican Use Association |
| | All Priests and Deacons of the Anglican Use. | | | Catechists, and all who teach religion in Anglican Use Parishes and Communities. | | | Those of the Anglican Use who live in places where there is no Anglican Use Parish or Community. |
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| | How |
| | Anglican hymns, like the traditional hymns of the Roman Liturgy found in the Divine Office, are deeply Scriptural and liturgical -- in an Anglican Church you would not be surprised, on a Feast like Feb. 2nd, the Presentation, to find yourself singing two or three hymns written especially to commemorate the feast. | | | The Anglican Use is not at all a full-fledged rite of the Catholic Church, and may never be. | | | Sacred Scripture, as one would expect given the history of the Anglican tradition, had a central place in Anglican worship and piety, and the preaching of the Word of God is emphasized. |
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| | Catholic World News : Church of England clears way for woman bishops |
| | When the Anglicans were originally mulling over the idea of "ordaining" women, Pope John Paul II and the patriarch of Constantinople wrote a joint letter to the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury literally pleading with him for the sake of unity not to follow through with it. | | | Anglicans and other Protestants are EXACTLY NOT part of the apostolic Church because they broke communion with that apostolic (and Catholic) Church in the 16th century! | | | However, more traditional Anglicans fear the move could split a church which is already rocked by the ordination of gay men and the blessing of same-sex unions. |
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http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=38358
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| | The Anglican Domain: Church History |
| | The Anglican church, although it has apostolic succession, is separate from the Roman church. | | | The Anglican Church evolved as part of the Roman church, but the Celtic influence was folded back into the Roman portion of the church in many ways, perhaps most notably by Charlemagne's tutor Aidan. | | | Martin Luther's famous 95 Theses were nailed to the door of the church in Wittenburg in 1517, and news of this challenge had certainly reached England when, 20 years later, the Anglican branch of the church formally challenged the authority of Rome. |
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http://www.anglican.org/church/ChurchHistory.html
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| | Catholic Priest Reflects on the Beauty of the Anglican Mass |
| | In the Anglican Use liturgy, one draws upon a hymnal of six to eight hundred hymns, solidly Scriptural and Liturgical (you come for Mass on the Feast of St. Michael and All Angels, you get hymns honoring the Angels; you come on the Annunciation, you get Annunciation hymns!!). | | | In the early 1980s, responding to the overtones of groups of Anglicans who were seeking to come into full communion of the Catholic Church, the Holy Father established the pastoral Provision. | | | You see, Father Bradford is an Anglican Use Priest of the Roman Rite (which is why there is a Mrs Bradford), chaplain to the Anglican Use congregation in Boston. |
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| | Anglicans Online Anglican Communion Membership |
| | Churches that "have intercommunion" with the Anglican church | | | In general the not-in-communion Anglican churches have broken away from the Anglican church because of disagreement over some doctrinal issue, and the property of not being in communion with Canterbury is part of their identity. | | | All of these churches are in full communion with the See of Canterbury, and recognize the Archbishop of Canterbury as being the focal point of the church. |
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| | The Anglican Communion Official Website |
| | Gracious God, we give you thanks for the gift of this world-wide Anglican Communion of churches: for our sense of belonging to all the ages, for the gift of thoughtful prayer you have taught us, and for the task of reverent study to which you call us. | | | The Most Rev'd Henry Luke Orombi, Archbishop of Uganda, with the August 2004 consent of the House of Bishops of the Church of Uganda has appointed a priest of the Church of England, the Rev'd Prebendary Sandy Millar, as Assistant Bishop in the Church of Uganda more › | | | Inflame us with prophetic vision so our fellowship will be the likeness of your kingdom of righteousness, proclaimed for all by Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. |
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| | Catholic Answers Forums - Anglican Use - why so rarely used? |
| | I don't think they use it anymore, but it was fascinating to see that they had done it and how they celebrated in their small church there at the Monastery. | | | However, it is estimated that there are up to 300,000 ex Anglicans in various groups separated from the Anglican and Episcopal Church who could be interested in becoming members of the Catholic Church. | | | As I understand it, Anglican Use is for those who want to convert from Episcople to Catholic but don't want to leave behind all of their traditions and ways of worship? |
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http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?s=4494f55d469afc264f176a2035e1cab2&t=48812
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| | Anglican-Use Web Log |
| | Here is a history of the Anglican Use and its establishment as well as the document of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith which established it. | | | If you are an Anglican interested in becoming part of the Roman Catholic Church, I direct you first to the webstie of the pastoral provision of 1980. | | | The person receiving this enlightenment is also baptised in the name of Jesus Christ, who was crucified under Pontius Pilate, and in the name of the Holy Spirit, who through the prophets foretold everything concerning Jesus. |
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| | More about the Anglican Use |
| | Anglican Use Community exists as a small witness to the legitimate diversity which is found in the eternal unity of the Catholic Church. | | | Also, as a testimony to the broader appeal of the liturgical and cultural life of this Mission, many "Cradle Catholics" may find here a spiritual home and inspiration for the carrying out of their individual apostolates. | | | These tools -- liturgy, spirituality, culture -- are used then in carrying out our mission: |
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| | Anglican Essentials Canada |
| | As Canadian Anglicans we are inheritors of a great tradition in both church and state. | | | I am calling on supporters of our orthodox Anglican tradition to take a stand for the church we so love which seems to be disappearing in these secular, liberal times. | | | Our MISSION is to call the Anglican Church of Canada to embrace and live by its orthodox Christian heritage under the renewing guidance of the Holy Spirit. |
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http://www.anglicanessentials.org
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| | King of Peace - Anglican Prayer Beads |
| | Anglican Prayer Beads are a relatively new form of prayer, blending the Orthodox Jesus Prayer Rope and the Roman Catholic Rosary. | | | The use of the rosary or prayer beads helps to bring us into contemplative of meditative prayer—really thinking about and being mindful of praying, of being in the presence of God—by use of mind, body, and spirit. | | | The configuration of the Anglican Prayer Beads relate contemplative prayer using the Rosary to many levels of traditional Christian symbolism. |
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| | VirtueOnline-News - Exclusives - SCRANTON, PA: Roman Catholic Diocese To Receive First ECUSA Priest |
| | There were some similar examples in England just after the purported ordination of women, in which former Anglican priests and those members of their congregations who went with them continued for a time to worship together as RCs in their former Anglican buildings (with the consent of their former ordinary and the RC bishop). | | | The worship in Anglican Use parishes surpasses any liturgy I've seen in either the Episcopal Church or in the rest of the Roman Rite Church. | | | The special liturgy was subsequently approved by the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Committee for the Liturgy of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. |
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http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=1891
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| | What Bible do Anglican's Use? |
| | Primarily I believe that either the KJV or NRSV are used in churches. | | | For memorizing, I use either the Bishops' Bible (the sections that are preserved in the Book of Common Prayer lectionary) or, since I don't own and cannot find a complete Bishops' Bible, the King James Version. | | | The Continueing Churches in North America [seperated Anglican bodies like the Anglican Catholic Church, the Anglican Provinince of Christ the King, the Reformed Episcopal Church,] all use the Authorized translation of 1611 liturgically. |
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| | Welcome to the official Web Site of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa |
| | The Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia encompasses the area described by its title. | | | Publication: 'Anglican Taonga' (Treasure) is a publication affirming the unity and diversity of the Anglican community in these islands. | | | It is our hope that the information contained here will enable Anglicans and others to be informed of the ministry of this Church. |
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| | The Anglican Use Liturgy - in the Roman Catholic Church |
| | The Anglican Use Liturgy - in the Roman Catholic Church | | | There are, at present, six parishes in the USA now using the Anglican Use liturgy. | | | The celebrant faces the people for the Great Thanksgiving ("Lift up your hearts..."), but the rest of the liturgy is done in the classic style facing the Altar and Tabernacle leading the people in their worship. |
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| | American Anglican Council :: BlogSite |
| | The “via media” of Anglicanism historically refers to the Church of England’s middle ground between Roman Catholicism and Free Church Protestantism and emphasizes unity based on the essentials of faith as expressed in Scripture. | | | Tensions in the worldwide Anglican Church are increasing “at an alarming rate” over issues of homosexuality, the head of the Anglican Church in The Bahamas His Grace Archbishop Drexel Gomez warned in his annual charge Monday night. | | | To misappropriate this Anglican terminology and apply it to an entity established to promote a false gospel is beyond the pale. |
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| | Why won't Rome make "Anglican Use" more widely available to conservative Episcopalians? |
| | The Anglican Use Rite is practiced only in a handful of churches in Texas and one in Columbia SC. | | | Because I love the grand language of Archbishop Cranmer's prayerbook and the time-honored rituals of the Anglican church, I would welcome the opportunity to attend an Anglican Use service. | | | And before people can congregate where they feel most comfortable, they have to know that the church is there. |
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/1002801/posts
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| | Anglican Custom Regarding Christian Burial |
| | Church families are encouraged to take part in a service of the Holy Communion in the parish church at the time of bereavement, with the Burial Office, or as soon afterwards as possible. | | | It is an expression of our oneness in Christ and our corporate life, as of those who have already known and shared the eternal life which God has given and will give. | | | On the day of the Funeral, if family prayers are requested at home, the coffin should be closed prior to the prayers. |
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| | Welcome to The Anglican Communion Institute |
| | The unanimous consensus of the previous Christian tradition (Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant and Anglican) has been that homosexual activity is immoral, condemned by both Scripture and Church tradition. | | | The St. Michael Report was produced by a theological commission of the Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada. | | | The vast majority of critical biblical scholars continue to recognize that the plain sense reading of the biblical texts prohibits homosexual activity, and that Scripture endorses only one permissible model for sexual activity: exclusive life-long commitment within heterosexual marriage. |
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| | The Anglican Domain: Using ANGLICAN.ORG |
| | The Anglican church began in England in the beginning of the sixth century, and has served as a worthy vehicle to further the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic church. | | | The Internet began in the United States at the end of the twentieth century, and will over time evolve to be an important tool in sustaining the work of the church. | | | There is no mechanism for putting parish churches into ANGLICAN.ORG except by working through their dioceses. |
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| | Loiselle.Anglican.Sucession |
| | This we accept to be a proper, reasonable and decent manifestation of holy worship, as defined in the Anglican/English Use, to the glory and praise of a Blessed and Holy Trinity, in a manner of worship which is orthodox, catholic, and reformed. | | | However, there is now an added problem in the Anglican world concerning the ordination of women which many feel is against the tradition of the Holy Catholic Church. | | | In this case, we are closer to the Polish National Catholic Church and the Orthodox than to the present politics of Utrecht or the Church of England. |
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http://www.cinemaparallel.com/Loiselle.Anglician.html
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| | The Anglican Domain |
| | If you are looking for the official web page of some part of the Anglican or Episcopal church, see the Official web pages section. | | | Its purpose is to help us Anglicans and Episcopalians communicate with each other more easily, and to help everyone learn about our church. | | | This web site is for the Anglican (Episcopal) Church around the world. |
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| | The Venerable Bead - Prayers for Use with Anglican Prayer Beads |
| | The general rule is that a slightly longer prayer is used on the cruciforms, and a shorter prayer on the weeks beads. | | | A longer prayer or selection from the Psalms or Scripture may be divided into seven parts, and each part said on one of the weeks beads. | | | As an Episcopal priest, I have drawn heavily from the American Book of Common Prayer (BCP) and the Psalter; you may want to look to the traditions of other branches of the Church. |
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http://www.thevenerablebead.com/aboutbeads/prayers.shtml
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| | The Catholic Church of St Mary the Virgin (Anglican Use) |
| | The Catholic Church of St Mary the Virgin (Anglican Use) | | | [N.B.: This is not according to the rubrics of the Anglican Use, which prescribe that all should kneel immediately after the greeting of peace, so as to be kneeling during the verse "Christ our Passover...". | | | Kneeling after the response to this verse is a local tradition, peculiar to the Church of St Mary the Virgin.] |
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| | Oremus Hymnal |
| | Hymnal editors have been editing the texts of hymns for centuries; some of these changes are included here; many are not. | | | This site will as well contain a number of contemporary hymn texts and tunes not widely published, in the hope that they may be discovered by the wider Church. | | | Accompanying the text of each hymn you will find information about the author of the text, its meter and various settings of music for each text. |
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| | Anglican Church of Canada |
| | While this is the official site of the Anglican Church of Canada, the material published here does not necessarily reflect official positions of the General Synod or any other body of the church. | | | OCT 19 -- Archbishop Andrew Hutchison, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada and Bishop Michael Pryse, of the Eastern Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada will lead a joint worship service at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Kitchener, Ont. on Oct. 30. | | | ©1998 - 2005 The General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada. |
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| | CBC News: Anglican leaders opt to allow 'flying bishops' |
| | In mid-October, a commission of the worldwide Anglican Church released a report that called upon all 38 national churches to sign an agreement to support the church's current teachings. | | | Similar measures were introduced in England 10 years ago to let parishes that opposed the ordination of women bypass their own bishop in favour of traditionalists who share their views. | | | The vote, at their regular fall meeting on Nov. 17, overturns a decision made by Canadian bishops last spring to reject the so-called "flying bishops." |
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http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2004/11/21/anglican-bishop-041121.html
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| | Pharsea: Anglican Catholicism |
| | But he says that even if he had not been granted the dispensation to be ordained a Catholic priest, he would have become Catholic anyway. | | | [for] outreach to Anglicans who are looking for a way [to cross over to the Catholic Church].... | | | "The Anglican use" is definitely a postconciliar idea. |
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| | Anglican Church Of Australia |
| | The Most Rev Dr Phillip Aspinall, Archbishop of Brisbane was today elected Primate of the Anglican Church of Australia by the Board of Electors. | | | The Most Rev Dr Phillip Aspinall, Archbishop of Brisbane, was inaugurated as the Primate of the Anglican Church of Australia last night at St John's Cathedral. | | | The April / May 2004 meeting of Standing Committee recently made available to dioceses for trial use a resource developed by the Liturgy Commission for the journey of healing following sexual misconduct or abuse by a Church worker. |
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| | Online Anglican resources at SoAJ |
| | Project Canterbury, a home on the Internet for Anglican texts, with emphasis on the Catholic identity of Anglicanism. | | | We work to help make the Internet a living resource for the Anglican life and faith. | | | The Book of Common Prayer, collection edited by Charles Wohlers. |
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| | Welcome to Anglican Media Online |
| | Adelaide's new Anglican Archbishop has used his welcoming ceremony to call for healing within the church. | | | Not one but two scathing opinion pieces were published in the Australian last week countering the comment coming from churches on social justice issues. | | | The churches should be showing more flexibility on embryo research, writes Alan Nichols. |
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| | CaNN :: We started it. |
| | But this representative of the brittle liberalocracy in the ever-shrinking, aging, and ECUSA-chasing Anglican Church of Canada cannot face the horror of.. | | | AND LET SLIP the poodles of Episcopalian feminism: “Womens stories are missing from the history of the church just as they are missing from secular history, said Bishop Suffragan Bavi Edna Rivera of the Diocese of Olympia during the second annual St. Margarets Lecture at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific”… | | | * MCJ BLOGGER– Jim Njegovan, the Anglican Bishop of the Diocese of Brandon in Canada, tees off on Anglican Essentials Canada and conclusively demonstrates that the religion of liberal Anglicans is Anglicanism |
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| | sydneyanglicans.net - sydney home |
| | Having faith in the lion King: the art of defence, attack, attraction | | | Nigerian churches tell West to practice what it preached on gays - Washington Post | | | Voice for black justice (and Christ): Rosa Parks dies - Christianity Today (USA) |
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| | These A/U Folks |
| | Throughout the world the Catholic Church has numerous liturgical rites all under the authority of the Pope, and the Church has always taught that there can be ligitimate diversity in unity. | | | This community has no affiliation with the so called Continuing Anglican Movement or with any branch of the Episcopal Church. | | | It is a "common identity" community in which certain elements of the Anglican tradition and ethos are retained. |
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