My Upgrade to Anglican Catholic

My journey from low church to high church.

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[ceetboy]

The Catholic Church depicted Virgin Mary and Jesus as a Hermaphroditus, was an immortal son of Hermes through Aphrodite. He was changed into an androgynous being, a creature of both sexes, when the gods literally granted the nymph Salmacis' wish, that she and Hermaphroditus were never separation. Then you have the Jesuits who planned all the world wars. Then you have cia,fbi,sis,siv,m6, kgb, oss, ss, mafia working for them as a knight of malta. Go figure that out smart boy!

[redneckmarine87]

@ceetboy ok?

[Cygnusiii]

Welcome to the Anglican Catholic Church! May God richly bless you and may you bring many others to Christ and His Holy Church. Your brother in the Faith, Fr. Lawrence.

[redneckmarine87]

thank you father!

[PsychoPunk1965]

I am with the Anglican Province of Christ the King myself. The one thing I disagree with you about is when you say that the Anglican Catholic Church is not "Protestant." They may be closer to "catholicism" than the mainline Episcopal Church; but the ACC, APCK, UECNA, " are not under the authority of the Pope. You can say that people like us are as close as we can be toward "Catholicism" without actually being Catholic, or that we are the most "Catholic" of all Protestant traditions.

[imanacer]

Congrats! You're well on the right track in the right direction. I was baptized high church and made the final step to Rome in high school. 25 years ago and never regretted a day of it.

Keep the faith, bro.

[MrJpridgway]

I join the other comments and wish you every joy in our wonderful Catholic faith. May our Lord and his blessed Mother pray for you as you grow in the faith.

[NuGeordie]

Welcome, brother. Nevermind all the naysaying low Anglicans. We _are_ Catholic. It matters not the prefix. :)

[Ambiduros]

@PoisonedOath

The thing about the Episcopal church is everyone is not worshiping together: Everyone is worshiping their own God, or no God, or themselves or whatever they happen to believe. This is why historical Christianity - which supersedes any particular ideas of supercilious upper class folk whose only identity is to look down on people who refuse to sway - has always taught the "one faith once delivered to the apostles."

[GymGuy817JasonEuless]

I'm all for the high church stuff and tradition but what you said about Episcopalians that they're in all kinds of turmoil isn't true. It's the Anglican break aways in the U.S. (a small minority of anti-gay Episcoplians) that are actually in turmoil. The rest of the Episcopal Church is mainline. Do yourself a favor and distance yourself from these fanatics.

[drdst17]

@JohnRhysMusician Christ Himself said that He would be with the Church "to the consumation of the world".  To be Mormon, you have to believe that Christ is wrong.

Sorry to burst your bubble like that, but Joseph Smith was a lunatic who wanted to sleep with as many women as possible.

[PoisonedOath]

A true Anglican Catholic would allow more liberal and low church opinions to exist within the Anglican Communion, and see that it is our solidarity as Anglicans in communion with the Most Rev. Archbishop of Canterbury which unites us as a Universal (Catholic) Church. You and I may be High Church Anglo-Catholics, but to be Anglican - by definition - we simply cannot reject Low Churchmen and evangelicals. It compromises the Anglican belief in the “via media” that seeks to unite all Christians.

[PoisonedOath]

So you are not really an Anglican Catholic, in my opinion. You seem to me a Protestant of sorts, acting against the Anglican Catholic tradition which can only be expressed in communion with the Church of England, and the Apostolic successor to the Universal Church within the Anglican tradition, the Archbishop of Canterbury. A Protestant who happens to be High Church and holds traditional beliefs, but is essentially opposed to the Tradition that legitimises the Church by separating from it.

[PoisonedOath]

The schismatic sects like the ACC are not solving the turmoil in the Episcopal Church, they’re creating it, by demanding a fundamental Change in Anglicanism - that we no longer be open to worshiping together, even though we disagree on some points of faith and worship, but that we must instead conform to ONE expression of faith and ONE rigid formula for worship.

[PoisonedOath]

Churches range from High Church AC to low church evangelical. I am blessed to have found a High Church-oriented congregation that is an EPISCOPAL church, continuing in the rich tradition of the Anglican Communion, which is (for a true Anglo-Catholic) the legitimate expression of the Anglican faith.