Anglican Use
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The Anglican Use is 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. These formerly Anglican churches now communally inducted into the Catholic Church are located in the United States and were formerly parishes of the Episcopal Church in the USA.
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 rare and are found only in certain dioceses 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- Historical documents on Anglican-Roman Catholic relations
