All of this is to say that we in the Ordinariates around the world have a specific mandate: to evangelize our separated brethren and lapsed Catholics, and bring them home to Holy Mother Church. And the primary tool at our disposal to fulfill this mandate is our Anglican Patrimony as it has been distilled in the Divine Worship Missal.Seriously? We're going to evangelize with the heavy furniture of the Divine Worship Missal? Let's consider that, as a TEC priest correctly remarked to an adult forum I attended back in the day, the issues that led to "continuing" Anglicanism, the 1979 BCP and women's ordination, are no longer controversial among Episcopalians. That likely includes the ACNA. Regarding gay priests and bishops, the Church has not put its own house in order, and that goes for Bp Lopes -- nothing to evangelize there, I'm afraid. "Continuing" Anglicanism itself is a dwindling and aging movement, hardly a fertile field.
I believe Bp Barron is the point man now for evangelization in the USCCB. As far as I can see, he has nothing to say about liturgy -- for that matter, Ven Fulton Sheen, certainly the most effective evangelist in at least the last century, has little to say about it. It seems to me that the heavy furniture liturgy, whether Anglican or Latin, is not a productive direction, and in fact, as Fr Phillips suggested in the blog post I linked yesterday, potentially unhealthy.
A better course would be for Bp Lopes to start to clean up his own act. Then he might consider giving Bp Barron a call.
