The Personal Ordinariate is for everyone!

Yours truly was raised by a Yorkshire Methodist mother. Initially, mum was raised in the Church of England, the community of one of her parents, but left after a theological argument with the local Anglican vicar. She, still a young teenager, then began attending the local Wesleyan Methodist community of her other parent.

Because of its similarity to mum's Wesleyan Methodist community back home, yours truly was raised in a very strait-laced United Church of Canada community of mostly former Methodists—salt of the earth folk. My Sunday School teacher of some five years was Miss Jean Christie, a direct descendant of William Mellis Christie, as in "Mister Christie, you make good cookies!" Miss Christie possessed a quiet and confident faith. Everyone in our town of 900 souls knew and loved Miss Christie.

I was received into the Catholic Church in my mid twenties, in 1985. The English "accent" I have discovered among members of our Ordinariate community reminds me 'a lot of me mum', a lovely additional benefit among many blessings received from God this past year-and-a-half since attending the Ordinariate Mass.

Pray that (many additional) Methodists may discover a shared patrimony preserved and celebrated in the Personal Ordinariates, a patrimony with which Methodists are more than a little familiar.

Methodism—à la John Wesley, et al—, for those less familiar, is a relative of Anglicanism, a renewal movement that developed into a distinct community.

"Methodism as a faith movement, and as a matter of history, is an Anglican break away group. The three founders of Methodism, with John Wesley being the main one, were all Anglican clergy and this helped shape the movement. The liturgy of Methodism was based on the Anglican Book of Common Prayer(.)"

Read the full article at The Anglicanorum Coetibus Society

Methodist Ordinariates in the Catholic Church?

by Simon Dennerly

"Much has been made of the creation ‘Anglican Ordinariates’ in the Catholic Church (properly called Personal Ordinariates) and it has been hinted others can be created for other Christian communities who want union with Rome: so how about Ordinariates for Methodists and other Wesleyans? The answer is they are already here."

"According to the Vatican, former Methodists can claim the Patrimony and join Personal Ordinariates; after all there are former Low-Church Anglicans that are now members of the Ordinariates- the main issue is they have converted and now hold the Catholic Faith."

Read the full article at The Anglicanorum Coetibus Society