Anglican Use was a mistake.
...and there are many of us utterly opposed to it. The "Mass" said at these parishes is odd, the attitude toward children is shameful - and the sense of entitlement by the "priests" is unacceptable.
...and there are many of us utterly opposed to it. The "Mass" said at these parishes is odd, the attitude toward children is shameful - and the sense of entitlement by the "priests" is unacceptable.
Since you are in San Antonio, my AU Priest/Parish comes to mind. Our Mass is reverent and beautiful, and many Parishioners drive sixty miles or more to attend. There's no guitar music, no hand holding, and my Priest certainly doesn't think of himself as "entitled" to anything.
I don't understand the "attitude toward children" comment. There are many families in my Parish with eight or more children-one has fourteen, and our Parish School has been named one of the top fifty private schools in the US for years.
I have watched my Priest confront a Hawaiian shirted, "hey, dude, you're leading the way for the rest of us to get wives" Priest, and defend the Church's discipline on celibacy. He is a staunch defender and preacher of Catholic teaching. His homilies are not a bunch of feel good fluff.
He doesn't take his Priesthood for granted, and realizes that it is an awesome gift. I have seen tears on his cheek when he holds up the Consecrated Host because he, a humble Priest, has been blessed with such an awesome responsibility.
Have you seen him in I am the Living Bread, or This is my Body. This is my Blood, and heard what he says about the Eucharist, the Catholic Faith, and the Priesthood?
He has been a Priest for over twenty years now, and though I've only been Catholic for ten, I am most grateful for the Anglican Use Parish of which I am a member, and thank God every day for my AU Priest.
I don't see it. The Mass (and lose the garnishment of quote marks, o.k.? It's officially approved) is a better translation of the Latin (of the pre-Reformation English church) than the current English Mass is of its Latin. It is reverent, perhaps a little archaic in its language, but I like that (the Latin of the Tridentine Mass you will also find to be a bit archaic, if you read Latin that well.) The average educated 17th c. Englishman, certainly the translators of the Mass, wrote the purest and most beautiful version of the language ever seen.
I don't get what you say about kids - nor about the priests. I do not know any former Anglican priests who have become Catholic priests, but the old-order Anglican priests (and that is the pool from which the A.U. Rite priests are drawn) tend to be old-fashioned, very reverent, perhaps a little fussy by modern standards, but "entitlement" is the last word I would use to describe any of those I have met. And as a long-time ultramontane High Church Episcopalian, I met a lot of them. I like them a whole lot better than the sport-shirted lounge lizard "hey hey what's happenin' baby?" types that infest the "modern" Episcopal churches.