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'Anglican Use' has two meanings. First, it refers to a small collection of formerly Anglican or Episcopalian congregations which were permitted by Pope John Paul II in his Pastoral Provision of 1980 to become Catholic parishes while maintaining some of the features of Anglican liturgical styles. They are all located in the United States.
Second, Anglican Use refers to the particular form of worship used by those churches. It can be used outside of those churches with the proper permission from the local bishop.

Contents

Liturgy

Book of Divine Worship

Communion

Membership

Parishes and Missions

See also

External links

Liturgy

The Anglican Use liturgy reflects many influences, including the Sarum Use, the English Missal, the 1928 and 1979 Book of Common Prayer, and the Roman Missal. The basic structure of the Mass is not unlike that of the Latin Tridentine Mass, translated into 16th-century English. A casual observer would notice very little difference between an Anglican Use service and a high Anglican or an Anglo-Catholic service. There would be lots of "smells and bells". Distinctive features of such masses include 16th century English (think "thee" and "thou"), greater use of incense and bell-ringing, the altar placed against the eastern wall, and more traditional music, chants, and English hymns. Gender roles would alse be more traditional.

Book of Divine Worship

The adapted liturgy of the Anglican Use is contained in the ''Book of Divine Worship''. In addition to the adapted liturgy, an additional Pastoral Provision allowed Anglican and some Protestant clergy who joined the Roman Catholic Church to be ordained priests for the Catholic Church despite having been married. The permission to celebrate the Anglican Use and the Pastoral Provision are not necessarily linked.

Communion

Anglican Use is particular form of worship within the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church. Other forms of liturgy in the Latin Rite include the widely used Roman Rite, the Ambrosian Rite of Milan and neighbouring areas, and the Mozarabic Rite, in limited use in Spain, above all at Toledo.
Anglican Use should not be confused with the Anglican Communion, Anglo-Catholicism, or the Continuing Anglican Movement, none of whose member churches are in communion with the Roman Catholic Church.

Membership

Anglican Use parishes are rare and are found only in certain dioceses of the United States. Any Anglican parish seeking to join the Catholic Church and become Anglican Use parishes must have the permission of the local Roman Catholic bishop. Some Anglican parishes in Canada and the UK have applied to become Anglican Use but have been refused permission.

Parishes and Missions

★ 'Our Lady of the Atonement', San Antonio, Texas [1]

★ 'Our Lady of Walsingham', Houston, Texas [2]

★ 'St. Mary the Virgin', Arlington, Texas [3]

★ 'St. Thomas More' Fort Worth, Texas

★ 'St. Margaret of Scotland', Austin, Texas

★ 'St. Anselm of Canterbury Catholic Mission', Corpus Christi, Texas [4]

★ 'St. Athanasius Congregation', Boston, Massachusetts [5]

★ 'St. Thomas More Society', St. Clare Church, Scranton, Pennsylvania [6]

★ 'Church of the Good Shepherd', Columbia, South Carolina

★ 'Atlanta Area AU Catholic Laity', Dunwoody, Georgia

★ 'California AU Catholic Laity', St. Francis of Assisi Church, La Quinta, California

See also

★ Book of Divine Worship

★ Pastoral Provision

★ Unitatis Redintegratio

★ Sarum Rite

External links

★ Anglican Use Society

★ Pastoral Provision

★ ''The Book of Divine Worship''

★ Online Version of the Daily Office from the BDW

★ Unitatis Redintegratio, Decree from Second Vatican Council

★ Document establishing the Anglican Use, July 22, 1980

★ A Place Has Been Prepared: "Anglican Use" Catholic Parishes (article)

★ Text of the Anglican Use Mass (Walsingham)

★ Historical documents on Anglican-Roman Catholic relations