Members of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter will have received their copy of the Ordinariate Observer in the mail, and it’s chock full of good news about how we are growing and where.Exactly when this will come out isn't clear. In an earlier but still very recent e-mail, my regular correspondent noted,
The latest post [from March 9] quotes from "the most recent edition of the Ordinariate Observer," which is puzzling, since the most recent issue available anywhere I can find appeared in late 2017 and the reference is to a statement by Fr Rick Kramer, who became Vocations Director in July, 2018. Perhaps the AC blog poster had access to a draft of a forthcoming issue. The deadline for submissions, originally sometime last September, is now the end of March and may yet be extended---who knows?Well, regarding communications from Houston, who knows? Mrs Gyapong mentions her contribution to a forthcoming Festschrift to celebrate Anglicanorum coetibus:
The topic for my paper is lay initiatives to promote Anglican patrimony within the Ordinariates, and to that end I have done many interviews with people who took it upon themselves to do something in this vein. Of course I ended up with far more material than I could ever use for a 4,000 word article, so I hope to use some of that material here when the deadline crunch is over.We're back to the puzzling question of what is this thing "Anglican patrimony". The basic issue is whether we're talking about Catholic England pre-1534, in which case "Anglican" doesn't apply -- as I understand it, the term "Anglican" was originally derisive and didn't come into common use until about 1600. And the Church of England's theology was officially Reformed, as embodied in the XXXIX Articles, so strictly speaking, "Anglican patrimony" is about as meaningful in a Catholic context as "Presbyterian patrimony" or "Lutheran patrimony". So if we look back wistfully at, say, the Gilbertines, we're not really talking about "Anglican patrimony", we're talking about Catholic England pre-1534, a worthy field of study, but not "Anglican" at all.
If we look at context, it appears to me that Mrs Gyapong interprets "Anglican patrimony" as a version of Catholic lite that she and some other posters at the Anglicanorum Coetibus Society blog represent as Catholicism. So I've pointed out in the past that she's previously been explicit that the need to avoid near occasions of sin is not part of the "Anglican patrimony" and thus, in her view, not authentic Catholicism. So I would even go as far as to say that, in context, Mrs Gyapong, a recent convert, regards herself and a small number of like-minded people who have expertise in things Anglican as the only interpreters of authentic Christianity as it has come down to us.
Actually, I wonder if the Anglican patrimony, now that it's in the Church, supersedes, say, the Spanish patrimony. Or maybe the Italian patrimony, for that matter. Mrs Gyapong may be able to enlighten us. Woggery begins at Calais, huh?
Otherwise, I'm aware of yet another observation from other quarters, apparently expressed with something of a sigh, that OCSP members aren't very well catechized.
