Lecturer speaks on Anglicans rejoining the Catholic Church
Ghianda Becerril
Issue date: 11/17/09 Section: News
On Friday Nov. 13, Taylor Marshall spoke about how the Anglicans were joining the Catholic Church. With the room full and with lots of good refreshments, he began to speak. Marshall was never raised in any religion in particular.
Marshall went to Texas A&M to study Greek and Latin, and then received his master's in philosophy at the University of Dallas. After some time, he said that he "fell in love with Anglicanism." To him, it was something he had never seen before. During one of his family trips with his wife, Joy, he got to experience the spirituality felt in the Vatican. He said that he got to meet with Cardinal Bomb, an elderly man, who asked him a lot of questions about what he believed in. Three months later, after experiencing the missing parts of his religion, he joined the Catholic faith.
Marshall said that the Anglican tradition consists of three elements: The high church, the broad church and the low church. Although the church contains many of the beliefs of the Catholic faith, Marshall said that there are still elements missing from it. Being experienced in both faiths, Marshall said that there are a lot of theories that are wrong about the situation.
The pope has ordained that Anglo-Catholics can become part of the Roman Catholic Church while retaining their liturgies and other aspects of their Anglican heritage. Marshall emphasized to his audience that they must not listen to theories made up by other people simply because they have a biased view on either one of the faiths. "Theories mentioned such as, 'The pope doesn't have priests so he will steal priests from the Anglicans,' are not theories to be listened to," he said. "Instead, when one of these theories is heard, correct the person and try to explain." This new ordinance will be very difficult for those who are already bishops in the Anglican Church. These bishops depend solely on the church, and when they leave, they will lose everything that they have.
"This is something that will make a radical difference," Marshall said. "Pensions will be lost, insurance will be removed and many will even be attacked by others." The people who realize that they want to join the Catholic faith will have to give up many of their dreams and material belongings. This will only continue to get worse as people begin to lose jobs, but even with this radical movement, the Catholic faith will continue to help those in need. Even though this may seem like a small movement ordained by the pope, Marshall mentioned that the pope is "mirroring the sacred heart of Jesus."
Ending his speech, Marshall said that there were a lot of expectations coming from the Anglicans joining the Catholic faith. "This will take a lot of adjusting and will be radically different, but we are prepared for the best and worst."
Marshall went to Texas A&M to study Greek and Latin, and then received his master's in philosophy at the University of Dallas. After some time, he said that he "fell in love with Anglicanism." To him, it was something he had never seen before. During one of his family trips with his wife, Joy, he got to experience the spirituality felt in the Vatican. He said that he got to meet with Cardinal Bomb, an elderly man, who asked him a lot of questions about what he believed in. Three months later, after experiencing the missing parts of his religion, he joined the Catholic faith.
Marshall said that the Anglican tradition consists of three elements: The high church, the broad church and the low church. Although the church contains many of the beliefs of the Catholic faith, Marshall said that there are still elements missing from it. Being experienced in both faiths, Marshall said that there are a lot of theories that are wrong about the situation.
The pope has ordained that Anglo-Catholics can become part of the Roman Catholic Church while retaining their liturgies and other aspects of their Anglican heritage. Marshall emphasized to his audience that they must not listen to theories made up by other people simply because they have a biased view on either one of the faiths. "Theories mentioned such as, 'The pope doesn't have priests so he will steal priests from the Anglicans,' are not theories to be listened to," he said. "Instead, when one of these theories is heard, correct the person and try to explain." This new ordinance will be very difficult for those who are already bishops in the Anglican Church. These bishops depend solely on the church, and when they leave, they will lose everything that they have.
"This is something that will make a radical difference," Marshall said. "Pensions will be lost, insurance will be removed and many will even be attacked by others." The people who realize that they want to join the Catholic faith will have to give up many of their dreams and material belongings. This will only continue to get worse as people begin to lose jobs, but even with this radical movement, the Catholic faith will continue to help those in need. Even though this may seem like a small movement ordained by the pope, Marshall mentioned that the pope is "mirroring the sacred heart of Jesus."
Ending his speech, Marshall said that there were a lot of expectations coming from the Anglicans joining the Catholic faith. "This will take a lot of adjusting and will be radically different, but we are prepared for the best and worst."
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Geo Caley
posted 11/20/09 @ 1:37 AM CST
If we realize that it isn't through Popes' able leadership that the Roman Catholic Church is big in numbers and sanctity or that it exists at all as throughout history quite a few of the popes did their best to destroy it; neither is it due to the clever theologians source of incriminations and divisions but wholly due to the Holy Spirit who is working in and through the Church, why don?t the leaders of all churches get together fall down on their knees ask forgiveness of God and each other embrace each other and call it the CHURCH of Christ on the simple principle pronounced by Jesus that "Where two or three are gathered in my name there am I among them"!
resume cv
posted 11/29/09 @ 7:30 AM CST
This lecture of Taylor Marshall was very interesting.
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