I was exploring the purchase of a new church building for St George, Republic and why this apparent piece of good news has not been shared more widely with Ordinariate well-wishers (short answer may be that Shane Schaetzel is no longer on the ACS board of directors). In the process I came upon this article from the local diocesan paper. Its definition of Anglican Patrimony, no doubt supplied by Shane Schaetzel and/or Fr Seraiah, amused me.Meanwhile, in Fort Worth, it appears that the St Timothy non-parish has had a name change.Of course, Mr Schaetzel, like Fr Treco, has been a Catholic for almost twenty years, the last few in the Ordinariate. In the case of Mr Schaetzel, he has had access to a regular Divine Worship mass only since July, 2016 when Fr Seraiah relocated to the Springfield, MO area. Before becoming a Catholic in 2000 Mr Schaetzel had been an Episcopalian only briefly. Fr Treco was never an Anglican of any kind.
Fr Seraiah's Anglican background is almost as shallow, although he became a Catholic more recently. Mr Schaetzel's advice for surviving the current crisis seems to involve looking for a Latin Mass parish, an Ordinariate parish, an Eastern Rite parish, or a liturgically conservative NO parish (in that order). So the "patrimony" aspect is clearly just a means to an end.
Three years ago the community's former Parochial Administrator, the man who brought them into the Ordinariate, was transferred to St John Vianney, Cleburne. The group was told that they would receive a new PA in January 2017, and that the goal was a new leader, a new location, and a new name. In April, 2017 they moved from a local diocesan parish to the chapel of the Fort Worth Diocesan Center. Fr Thomas Kennedy, who had been celebrating Sunday mass as a supply priest, was named PA in late 2018 while remaining Parochial Vicar at St Mary the Virgin, Arlington.St Timothy's Anglican appears to be a remnant of the former St Timothy Episcopal, so there's a great deal of confusion swirling around that particular name. It says a great deal about the OCSP that it's done so little to resolve it to date, and even with a new name finally decreed, no change has been made to its website or the OCSP Find a Parish page.The new name is St Thomas Becket, but there is no indication of this on the website or the FB page . The website has not been kept up to date but the Facebook page has a picture of Bp Lopes's visit on May 5 of this year. Did he mention that they had a new name? The St Timothy, Fort Worth ACC parish from which they split is still a going concern so I can see the argument for a new name, but perhaps the congregation does not. On the OCSP website they are still St Timothy, Ft Worth. Who's minding the store?
With the Anglicanorum Coetibus Society blog slowly going dark, it seems as though overall enthusiasm is flagging.
