Anglican Use
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The Anglican Use is an adaptation or usage of the liturgy of the Catholic Roman Rite that is used by some formerly Anglican ecclesial communities now reconciled to the Catholic Church. Local communities of the Episcopal Church in the USA that joined communally were permitted to retain some differences of liturgy derived from the Book of Common Prayer, once it had been edited to remove certain Protestant influences.
The Anglican Use liturgy reflects many influences, including the Sarum Use 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.
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 other 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.
The Anglican Use is not to be confused with the Anglican Communion itself, whose member churches are not in communion with the Roman Catholic Church.
Any Anglican parish seeking to join the Catholic Church and become Anglican Use 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. As a result, Anglican Use parishes are very rare (there are six worldwide) and are found only in certain diocese of the United States.
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- 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- Historical documents on Anglican-Roman Catholic relations
