As you can see on page 52 here under the headline "Meeting"In the context of the potential Our Lady of the Atonement move to the OCSP, it looks as though there is an agenda to place the two remaining Anglican Use parishes into the OCSP. What this might mean for the Pastoral Provision overall is of course speculative, but it could mean that the Pastoral Provision will continue only as a means of recruiting former Anglican clergy into diocesan positions, but they would likely perform exclusively Latin Rite diocesan work.The future of the Anglican Use in the Boston area lies with the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter. Bishop Lopes has given us some major goals to reach to ensure our longterm viability. Your commitment is important as we hear and share ideas.In other words, when Fr Bradford retires, the Boston archdiocese does not intend to replace him with a diocesan priest (Fr Bradford was ordained in TEC in 1970). So the merger of St Gregory the Great, Stoneham OCSP group with St Athanasius has only postponed, not removed, the necessity of finding some way for the congregation to support a new parochial administrator. This is the only remaining PP parish besides OLA and we see that the local diocese is quite happy to cede it to the OCSP when no property or assets are involved.
In terms of numbers, though, even with OLA, this is moving small change from one pocket to the other. However Houston may hype this as growth or progress, which it undoubtedly will, I can't imagine anyone in the CDF will be fooled.
