Why would you pray for that. I think it’s my decision where I want to attend church. Unless you believe Roman Catholics are the only true Christians. I’m Anglo Catholic and just fine with it, thanks.
“Why would you pray for that.”
You have to ask? ebb tide is Catholic, as am I, and we would like everyone else to be Catholic as well. Jesus wants everyone to be one in Him.
“I think it’s my decision where I want to attend church.”
It is your decision. And your responsibility. We all have to answer for what we do.
“Unless you believe Roman Catholics are the only true Christians.”
No, all Christians are Christians, but that doesn’t mean that all Christians have the fullness of faith as handed down by Christ and His Apostles.
“I’m Anglo Catholic and just fine with it, thanks.”
So the measuring stick is what you’re “just fine with”? Years ago, when I discovered the great modern philosopher Mortimer Adler was still alive and still working (albeit in a nursing home), I sent him an email about something that had always made me wonder. Adler was raised in a nominally or culturally Jewish home and considered himself a pagan in a sense. He did, however, become an Episcopalian in the 1980s. His wife was an Episcopalian. When I discovered this I was curious. I wrote to him asking him why would he, a man who so strenuously urged his students and readers to follow the stream of knowledge back to its original source, not do the same thing with Christianity? Shortly afterward he became a Catholic. I don’t think it was because of my email. He had been considering becoming Catholic for a while and apparently waited until after his wife passed on to swim the Tiber.
I respect the liturgical traditions of so-called Anglo-Catholics, but wonder what the point is of belonging to a group that is neither truly Anglican nor truly Catholic. Why settle for the run-off stream when you could have the river from which it came?