Author Topic: Anglican at the altar in St Peters, Rome (Read 1324 times)

Incredulous · « **on:** March 12, 2017, 09:26:12 PM »

Considering the "Destroyer Pope's" total agenda, neutralizing the SSPX was small potatoes.

First-ever Anglican Evensong in St Peter’s, Rome

On March 13, for the first time ever, Anglican Choral Evensong will be celebrated at the altar of the Chair of St Peter in St Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. Permission for this unique occasion was granted by Cardinal Angelo Comastri, Archpriest of St Peter’s Basilica, during a recent meeting with Archbishop David Moxon, the Director of the Anglican Centre in Rome.

Archbishop Moxon will preside at the 3.00pm service, while the preacher will be Archbishop Arthur Roche, the Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments at the Vatican. The music will be sung by the Choir of Merton College, Oxford.

All are welcome.

To enter: With Via della Conciliazione behind you and St.Peter’s Basilica directly in front of you, you should walk along the colonnade on the left side of the Basilica until you reach a check point with the presence of the Swiss guards. After a quick security check by the Swiss guards, the Vatican gendarmerie will show you the way to La Porta della Preghiera in order to enter the Basilica. Once inside, you should head towards the very front of the church and the Chair of St. Peter (la Cattedra di San Pietro). There will be stewards inside the church to accompany you to your seating. The Vatican Gendarmeria would like to admit people en masse at 2pm, so please aim to be at the Swiss guard check point at 1.45pm.

If you arrive after this time, please take the same route as described above, and say you are going to the Anglican Evensong.

The gesture reflects the deepening bonds of affection and trust between the Anglican Communion and the Roman Catholic Church. It comes just five months after Pope Francis and Archbishop Justin Welby celebrated Vespers together at the Basilica of San Gregorio al Celio to mark the Anglican Centre’s fiftieth anniversary. It also reciprocates the liturgical hospitality of the Archbishop of Canterbury and Dean Robert Willis in welcoming Cardinal George Pell to celebrate Solemn Mass at the High Altar of Canterbury Cathedral on July 7, 2015.

This date has been chosen as the nearest available day to the historic feast day of St Gregory the Great, who has become an unofficial patron of relations between the two churches. St Gregory was the Pope who sent St Augustine to England in 595 to evangelise the Anglo-Saxons and who became the first Archbishop of Canterbury.

Nadir · « **Reply #1 on:** March 12, 2017, 11:13:37 PM »

St Gregory the Great must be fuming over this. (Can one fume in Heaven?)

Neil Obstat · « **Reply #2 on:** March 12, 2017, 11:42:42 PM »

Another first for Francis the first.

(Perhaps that's why they called him "the first.")

Quote from: Nadir

St Gregory the Great must be fuming over this. (Can one fume in Heaven?)

I'd rather have St. Gregory fuming (today is his Feast Day) than Our Lord fuming.

But we're probably in for both of them fuming.

How long, dear Lord, how long?

RomanCatholic1953 · « **Reply #3 on:** March 13, 2017, 12:25:17 AM »

No end to the Francis "Shockers".

Barry · « **Reply #4 on:** March 13, 2017, 04:53:53 AM »

First Anglican at the altar of St. Peters, maybe.

First heretic? Or even first schismatic? I'll wager there have been many since the outbreak of Vatican II in what ABL called the "heretical and schismatic conciliar church". A few wearing white come to mind.

StCeciliasGirl · « **Reply #5 on:** March 13, 2017, 11:35:18 AM »

Do we have a pool on when Bergoglio names Cranmer a new-saint?

poche · « **Reply #6 on:** March 13, 2017, 11:30:02 PM »

Maybe they will convert.

Neil Obstat · « **Reply #7 on:** March 14, 2017, 12:40:52 AM »

Quote from: poche

Maybe they will convert.

Who? Francis? :roll-laugh2:

Nadir · « **Reply #8 on:** March 14, 2017, 04:18:54 AM »

Quote from: poche

Maybe they will convert.

Francis won't allow it! Conversion, I mean,

Aleah · « **Reply #9 on:** March 14, 2017, 06:03:25 AM »

I just don't understand why Fellay would sign to be a part of this mess.... the Pope must return to the true faith first!!!

poche · « **Reply #10 on:** March 14, 2017, 11:38:54 PM »

Two weeks after Pope Francis visited an Anglican parish in Rome, Anglican Evensong was celebrated in St. Peter’s Basilica for the first time on March 13.

The music was sung by the choir of Merton College, Oxford.

“The daily prayer of the Church is something which unites us, it goes back to our common Benedictine roots, and we in the English Church owe much to the Benedictine mission sent by Pope Gregory,” said Rt. Rev. David Hamid of the Anglican Diocese of Europe.

http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=31003

They recognize that the root of their evensong is from Pope Gregory. Maybe they could take this another step and return to their true home in the Catholic Church.