A Sacramentalists Short: Why Be Anglican?
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- In this Sacramentalists Short, Fr. Creighton and Fr. Wesley explain why they are Anglicans. They delve into the history, theology, and practices of Anglicanism, specifically Anglo-Catholicism. They also discuss the unique approach of the Anglican Church to liturgy and mission. This video is a must-watch for anyone considering joining the Anglican Church or those looking to deepen their understanding of the tradition.
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Thank you for a great and informative video! I'm a recent switch from a nondenominational evangelical church, and, after looking at both Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox traditions, have found a spiritual home in the Anglican Communion.
Converting ❤ and i feel so free and happy
Congratulations! That's a big step :)
Awesome! Thank you both - I’ve learned so much about my faith since I’ve become an Anglo Catholic. You both did an excellent job briefly explaining anglicism 😂 - I look forward to next week. Blessings
Great discussion, Reverend Fathers. Pretty much my story as well.
Really appreciate this. My husband and I who have been Baptist are very interested in converting. ❤ We have similar thoughts on why we cannot join the Catholic and Orthodox Church. Thankfully we have an Anglo Catholic perish an hour from us in Charlottesville.
Thanks for this episode.
First time viewer. Enjoyed the conversation. Not Anglican. Lutheran. Have had a long time attraction to Orthodoxy, but a couple of things I can't reconcile within myself, e. g., Marian excesses and mandatory veneration of icons as essential to salvation. Looking forward to hearing more from you.
Mandatory veneration? Wow. which branch of orthodoxy?
@@hailholyqueen The 7th Ecumenical Council requires ALL to venerate icons and slaps an anathema on those who don't. It's my one issue with that Ecumenical Council.
I was raised in an APCK (at the time ADCK) church. That church is now an ACC parish, via DHC.I am not sure if it stopped in ACA for a bit or not. When I think back on the visual thing that I associated with the church in my childhood, they are not so much Anglican but a mix of Lutheran, Baptist and a touch of Presbyterian due to the continuum often renting space in other congregation's buildings. Still the liturgy was solidly 1928 BCP / Misal and that set the standard which I compare all church visits to. I am working on finding my way home after a long time away unchurched, due to georgraphy I will probably make the ACC home, although I find myself drawn to APA just a bit more.
Great episode.
They forgot to mention Anglican Ministers cannot consecrate so no Holy Communion.
Can you tell me
How I can convert?
Thoughts on attending an episcopal church if my bishop and rector are biblically sound?
Everyone has to do what they think is best in their situation!
Which Anglican branch are you connected to? ACNA, ACA, or??
Fr. Creighton and Fr. Wesley are priests in the Anglican Province of America!
This video makes me so grateful to be Anglican. Queation for you guys: From my perspective though, the real threat to our apostolic succession is allowing female bishops in the future. Right now in the ACNA women are allowed to be priests (which is unbiblical and not traditional) but do you think they will one day allow female bishops? That would be a disaster. If they did allow female bishops, where would you go from there? Great video guys. Love the podcast too.
Probably not our place to speculate on the direction of another province. There are many good Anglicans in ACNA so we certainly pray that that's never the case! Thanks for watching :)
13:54. Just out of curiosity, with so much controversy surrounding it, why even bother with the Novus Ordo mass as an Anglican?
It should be said that we really don't. In the APA, we use the 1928 Book of Common Prayer and the Anglican Missal so there really isn't a canonically authorized Novus Ordo. However, the Novus Ordo *can* be done beautifully and reverently!
Hi do you belong to a specific Anglican denomination? Were you ordained by a bishop? What is your denomination's position on abortion, women ordination, apostolic succession, gay marriage, do you approve of the 39 Articles, etc etc Do you support the direction that the Church of England has been heading in over the past 40 years?
They're priests in the Anglican Province of America, which is an ecclesiatical body in the Continuing Anglican movement. It was founded by members that broke off from the Episcopal Church for the sake of protecting valid episcopal succession and safeguarding the Church from liberalism. Given this info, I doubt they weren't ordained by a valid bishop nor support the recent direction of the CofE.
We are priests in the Continuing Anglican movement. Fr. Hayden is in the Anglican Catholic Church, Fr. Creighton is canonically resident in the Anglican Province of America and serves in an ACC parish. Fr. Wesley serves at an APA parish. We were all ordained by bishops in Apostolic Succession. Our churches adhere to the Affirmation of St. Louis which means we do not support abortion, gay marriage, or women's ordination. The Affirmation also commits us to the Seven Ecumenical Councils and clearly puts us on a different trajectory than the Church of England's.
I really appreciate these answers, but I'm also not really seeing how there's any defense given for why I should be Anglican rather than say part of the Anglican Ordinariate of the Catholic Church. Would you describe yourselves as affirming Papal authority? If not, why?
Would've been nice to here some of the points where Anglo-Catholicism differs from other Apostolic traditions. As an outsider Anglicanism looks like a minimalist version of Orthodoxy and Catholicism, where traditions that aren't obviously present in the Church universal are done away with or relegated a secondary level of importance.
Some of the pastoral measures are appealing, like advocation of saints rather than invocation, which seems much less prone to excess compared to the other apostolic branches.
How do we know Anglican orders are valid?
Because Anglicans have maintained the proper form, intention, and matter for ordinations to maintain Apostolic Succession. And, just in case there was ever any doubt, they received conditional consecrations from Old Catholic bishops viewed as valid by the Roman Catholic Church. In fact, there aren't many traditions that have been as careful as Anglicans in preserving the validity of their Orders.
@ thanks is there a good source you can link me to show this? Does this apply to the ACNA too?
@@michaelwhitman9937 We have done a few episodes on it that might be helpful if you scroll backwards through our catalogue a bit.
If you're looking for a book, Absolutely Null and Utterly Void by John Jay Hughes is good.
As to whether it applies to the ACNA or not would be above our pay grade :)
@ you believe that the ACNA did not protect their episcopal orders? I just want to know if the Anglican Church has proper apostolic orders.
@@michaelwhitman9937 None of us are ACNA so it's not really our place to make a judgment nor is it an area we're familiar with.
I admire the anglicans, but can’t shake the lutheran confessions
The catholic teachings on contraception and abortion can make it tough to pope all at once. We'll wait here for ya.
I don't think that's any of our hold ups really. We agree with the principles of Catholic teaching on sex and reproduction but I think we would say the Lambeth position is more pastorally helpful.
Easy for me…Worship is Christ centered not man centered! Vocabulary of Liturgy is scripture bound! Posture physically and spiritually is one of unity and humility.
I think that Anglo-Catholicism is rather a misnomer. I think that the Anglican Church is, at best, Anglo-Orthodox. Not that Anglicanism isn't catholic, but then Orthodoxy is also catholic. But there are, I think, really more simialrities between Anglicanism and Orthodoxy than between Anglicanism and Papism.
There are definitely similarities with Orthodoxy insofar as we both adhere to the seven ecumenical councils and are not in communion with the Pope. That said, our understanding of Anglicanism is thoroughly grounded in the Western Tradition. This doesn't mean we shut ourselves off from the East; they offer many wonderful things that we can learn from!
But look at how many denominations have needed to create themselves because their spiritual needs were not met by your Church tradition: AME, Methodists, Reformed Episcopal, North American Anglican Communion, Congregationalists, Plymouth Brethren. ( Who were being killed by people sent from the Church of England) and escaped to New England and the Mid-Atlamtoc States in the 17th century.
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As a former Anglo-Catholic (who was at Anglican seminary when I became a Catholic), I agree - we're not dealing with genuine article apostolic Christianity here. Their identity is fundamentally Protestant.
I agree. And Anglicans are 100 percent Catholic. Just not Roman. ;)
If the Episcopal Church began to get a King of England out of a marriage, and its split from Catholicism was an expression of National sovereignty. What apostolic succession of any, does it claim to have. And since the Pentacost has released the Holy Spirit to born again Christians everywhere how does this ecclesiology have any coherence or relevance to the great commission?
No thanks. Fundamentally contradicts the Vincentian Canon.