Priests in Australia's new Anglican Ordinariate
will celebrate mass facing east, away from their congregations, using
500-year-old liturgies, reports The Australian.
Archbishop John Hepworth,
Primate of the Traditional Anglican Communion, said the traditional
sacred liturgies - more in the language of Shakespeare than modern
vernacular - would be held in parishes in all capital cities, the Gold
and Sunshine coasts, Rockhampton and Torres Strait.
The process took a major step forward yesterday when Archbishop
Hepworth and Catholic Bishop Peter Elliott announced the establishment
of an Australian Ordinariate implementation committee comprising senior
Catholic, Anglican and TAC clergy.
The committee will finalise details of the Ordinariate at a two-day
meeting at St Stephen's College, Coomera, on the Gold Coast, in early
February.
The Ordinariate will be established by Easter or Pentecost, in
accordance with the invitation Anglicanorum Coetibus (on groups of
Anglicans) issued by Pope Benedict.
Bishop Elliott said the initiative was "groundbreaking and historic .
. . I am heartened by the spirit of goodwill and co-operation and the
convergence of heart and mind."
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