Reformed Churchmen: Fr Hunwicke's Liturgical Notes: Apostolic Constitution

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We are Confessional Calvinists and a Prayer Book Church-people. In 2012, we remembered the 350th anniversary of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer; also, we remembered the 450th anniversary of John Jewel's sober, scholarly, and Reformed "An Apology of the Church of England." In 2013, we remembered the publication of the "Heidelberg Catechism" and the influence of Reformed theologians in England, including Heinrich Bullinger's Decades. For 2014: Tyndale's NT translation. For 2015, John Roger, Rowland Taylor and Bishop John Hooper's martyrdom, burned at the stakes. Books of the month. December 2014: Alan Jacob's "Book of Common Prayer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Book-Common-Prayer-Biography-Religious/dp/0691154813/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1417814005&sr=8-1&keywords=jacobs+book+of+common+prayer. January 2015: A.F. Pollard's "Thomas Cranmer and the English Reformation: 1489-1556" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-English-Reformation-1489-1556/dp/1592448658/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420055574&sr=8-1&keywords=A.F.+Pollard+Cranmer. February 2015: Jaspar Ridley's "Thomas Cranmer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-Jasper-Ridley/dp/0198212879/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422892154&sr=8-1&keywords=jasper+ridley+cranmer&pebp=1422892151110&peasin=198212879

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Fr Hunwicke's Liturgical Notes: Apostolic Constitution

Fr Hunwicke's Liturgical Notes: Apostolic Constitution

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Rev. Hunwicke is an Anglo-Catholic's Anglo-Catholic. An SSC-man we believe. He is quite happy about Rome's recent fishing trip with the offer of an ordinariate.

However, as we've long suspected, "other matters" are hand---practical matters, show-stoppers.

First, buildings and properties. Is a cash-strapped C o E simply going to allow the poaching and seizing of ancient buildings and churches?

Second, the average C o E cleric is paid 22,000 lbs/year. The Papist priest is paid 8,000 lbs/year. What will a Tractarian priest with a family do with such a pay cut?

We'll see where the principled men are. Knowing a little about human nature, we're aware of the power of buildings, money and control.

It's good to read an honest Anglo-Catholic who's not a mish-masher like Jack Leo Iker, Texas. We wish the latter would swim the Tiber, but alas, he'd have to be "re-ordained" most likely (or some equivalent since his orders are "invalid" and his sacramental services "invalid) and he'd have to surrender his "purple shirt" and episcopate. Is that likely? Nope.