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St. John's Old South Anglican Catholic
Description
While it is true that the Church of England developed into the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S., the ACC itself is not a new church. Indeed, one will find that the ACC is established to uphold and strengthen those values and doctrine that have been with the western form of Christianity since its beginning. It is a 'new structure' born of radical changes to the Episcopal Church in the 1960s and 1970s. The Anglican Catholic Church emerged from the Affirmation of St. Louis in 1977 as an independent province of the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church, in the Anglican tradition...a body separate from the ECUSA.
The meaning of the word 'catholic' itself is Greek in origin, meaning "according to the whole, believed by all, always and everywhere." To be Catholic is to be part of the One Church Jesus Christ founded. The ACC owes its faith to that which was formed in the Apostolic Age, and its theology is that of the seven Ecumenical Councils. It is in this that the ACC is in common with the Roman and Eastern Churches. It holds to the original, entire, and whole faith of the Christian Church and does not wish to take away or add to it in order to improvise that faith.
Those who are familiar with either the Pre-Vatican II RCC services or High Church ECUSA will find much that brings them home in liturgy, ceremony, Eucharistic Feast, and address. For those who Christian upbringing hails from less structured worship, the ACC will seem strange and formal. Parishoners can point newcomers to the basic missal of our worship, known as the 1928 Book of Common Prayer. This text is Holy Scripture organized into a worship format that those who spend even a little time reading can follow along.
Contact
- SERVARE PRESS
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- Richmond TEXAS
- United States 77469
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- 2813431187
