Orthodox option?

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The Church of England has massive, irreparable problems that now render it wholly un-catholic.

So, Where to go? ........

For a Church of England person, there are problems of where to go:

The Pope still claims to be infallible - a required belief - his church still issues indulgences as if he has power over your afterlife - and it still has the ongoing - increasing - problem of widespread paedophile priests. He has divested himself of the title "Patriarch of the West" and seeks to place himself in some sort of totally supreme position - the Vicar of Christ - the man who is for humans acting as Christ. The Anglicans looking at the Ordinariates joining with Rome will find that this is just a Priests club for those pro-Roman Anglican clergy and there will be no second generation clergy.
The Protestants are divided amongst many competing "churches" and they are not catholic in any sense.

Anything else? .......

Well, yes, there is another alternative - one you've never thought of .....

THE ORTHODOX CHURCH

It is the second biggest Church in the world - about five times as large as the whole Anglican Communion.

It has no pope - it is organised much like the Church of England used to be. It is NOT Greek (or Russian or anything else).

It is the only true continuation of the Early Church, unbroken through two thousand years. Our ancestors in this country were Orthodox for a thousand years - up until the Norman invasion. The Orthodox Church records Saint Dorotheus, Bishop of Tyre as saying that the Church in Tyre sent Saint Aristobulus (Aristibule) as Bishop to England in AD 37 - just a few years after the Ascension of Christ.

The Orthodox Church has a hundred year old authorisation for services being taken from the BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER and adapted for Orthodox use - "traditional Anglican" if you like - services that you, as a Church of England person would be very familiar with - not Italian or Irish or Greek but English. And it uses the complete Bible - not the truncated (fourteen books missing) version so common today. The Western Rite had existed within Orthodoxy from AD 37 until the 1300s - the official re-authorisation of Western Rite within Orthodoxy in 1870, was specifically intended for us here in England.

These ("traditional Anglican style") services are contained in the officially authorised SAINT COLMAN PRAYER BOOK.

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