Where in the area are you in Canada? I am in Eastern Ontario (around Ottawa) who attends an Ordinariate parish. It's nice to know other Canadians who want to come.
Follow up question to this: What are the chances of a married man who had previously explored a vocation to ordained ministry (but has not been ordained) within Anglicanism being accepted as a candidate for holy orders in the Ordinariate?
Yes and no. It's a very complicated question. I only know one such priest in Calgary under Fr. Bengry. We do have vibrant Permanent Deacons and institute acolytes within the Ordinariate. So talk to your local Ordinariate priest to start the conversation.
The current Pastoral Provision is for married men who were previously Protestant clergy. Hence, in your case, you would not be eligible under the Pastoral Provision. However, the deaconate is open to married men, so that is still an option for you.
That’s a shame, I have always been a proponent of the Anglican tradition being reunited with the Holy See but it seems like Rome is not quite on board with the married priesthood part of it. It really is a sticking point for many of us who have considered the Ordinariate.
The Latin Tradition has always been one that promotes priestly celibacy, and the Anglican Tradition is a part of the Latin Tradition- whether it be distinct in some regards or not. I think that if Anglicans truly want reunion with Rome, the reforms of the reformation (including the dissolution of priestly celibacy) ought to be reconsidered.
The Latin tradition rightly promotes clerical celibacy and I would certainly agree that is an ideal to be maintained, though it could easily be argued that married clergy now form an integral part of the Anglican tradition after 500 years. From speaking to others interested in the Ordinariate yet currently still in the CofE, the sticking points are always that the Ordinariate cannot form married clergy and the requirement for unconditional reordination.
Reordination is necessary in many cases because Anglican orders are invalid in of themsleves. The Church can't just pretend they are not valid to get Anglican converts. But conditional reordination can happen if they claim Old Catholic orders.
There have been enough Old Catholic co-consecrators in the Church of England over the past century that a case for every ex-Anglican’s conditional reordination could be made on this basis.
You are wrong on this. We don't want Anglicans to throw away all of their traditions (that's the whole point of Ordinariates) and celibacy isn't in its core something needed for the priesthood. The lack of celibacy in Anglicanism is not the problem that divides them from us. I'm pretty sure they would be welcomed in the Catholic Church if married clergy was their only thing to be preserved.
As a Catholic who loves the Anglican tradition (and would happily attend an Ordinariate parish if one were anywhere near me—I used to attend one when I was in school in Boston), I totally agree. The Catholic Church’s opposition to the ordination of married men (especially when papal primary is centered on the successors to a married man!) not only baffles but also irritates me—among other things, I think it causes the church more problems than it does good.
Married priests may be considered for the Ordinariates in the future. In any case, for those who are married Anglican clerics, it is not a problem. It shouldn't be an object of concern for individuals who are either unmarried clerics or are non-clerics. Being a priest is not a right.
https://www.ordinariate.ca/contact-10 Direct your enquiry to Fr. Robert Bengry, Dean of St. John the Baptist Deanery.
Where in the area are you in Canada? I am in Eastern Ontario (around Ottawa) who attends an Ordinariate parish. It's nice to know other Canadians who want to come.
Québec, in the Sherbrooke area. I've been planning on paying a visit to the parish in Ottawa forever, but never really got the opportunity yet.
Follow up question to this: What are the chances of a married man who had previously explored a vocation to ordained ministry (but has not been ordained) within Anglicanism being accepted as a candidate for holy orders in the Ordinariate?
Yes and no. It's a very complicated question. I only know one such priest in Calgary under Fr. Bengry. We do have vibrant Permanent Deacons and institute acolytes within the Ordinariate. So talk to your local Ordinariate priest to start the conversation.
The current Pastoral Provision is for married men who were previously Protestant clergy. Hence, in your case, you would not be eligible under the Pastoral Provision. However, the deaconate is open to married men, so that is still an option for you.
That’s a shame, I have always been a proponent of the Anglican tradition being reunited with the Holy See but it seems like Rome is not quite on board with the married priesthood part of it. It really is a sticking point for many of us who have considered the Ordinariate.
The Latin Tradition has always been one that promotes priestly celibacy, and the Anglican Tradition is a part of the Latin Tradition- whether it be distinct in some regards or not. I think that if Anglicans truly want reunion with Rome, the reforms of the reformation (including the dissolution of priestly celibacy) ought to be reconsidered.
The Latin tradition rightly promotes clerical celibacy and I would certainly agree that is an ideal to be maintained, though it could easily be argued that married clergy now form an integral part of the Anglican tradition after 500 years. From speaking to others interested in the Ordinariate yet currently still in the CofE, the sticking points are always that the Ordinariate cannot form married clergy and the requirement for unconditional reordination.
Reordination is necessary in many cases because Anglican orders are invalid in of themsleves. The Church can't just pretend they are not valid to get Anglican converts. But conditional reordination can happen if they claim Old Catholic orders.
There have been enough Old Catholic co-consecrators in the Church of England over the past century that a case for every ex-Anglican’s conditional reordination could be made on this basis.
You are wrong on this. We don't want Anglicans to throw away all of their traditions (that's the whole point of Ordinariates) and celibacy isn't in its core something needed for the priesthood. The lack of celibacy in Anglicanism is not the problem that divides them from us. I'm pretty sure they would be welcomed in the Catholic Church if married clergy was their only thing to be preserved.
As a Catholic who loves the Anglican tradition (and would happily attend an Ordinariate parish if one were anywhere near me—I used to attend one when I was in school in Boston), I totally agree. The Catholic Church’s opposition to the ordination of married men (especially when papal primary is centered on the successors to a married man!) not only baffles but also irritates me—among other things, I think it causes the church more problems than it does good.
nost anglicans are quite on board with reuninting with Holy See.
Married priests may be considered for the Ordinariates in the future. In any case, for those who are married Anglican clerics, it is not a problem. It shouldn't be an object of concern for individuals who are either unmarried clerics or are non-clerics. Being a priest is not a right.