{"id":7709,"date":"2011-10-09T22:34:27","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T02:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/deaconsbench\/?p=7709"},"modified":"2016-09-30T17:36:54","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T21:36:54","slug":"history-first-episcopal-church-in-the-u-s-converts-under-ordinariate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2011\/10\/history-first-episcopal-church-in-the-u-s-converts-under-ordinariate\/","title":{"rendered":"History: first Episcopal church in the U.S. converts under ordinariate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
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It finally happened.\u00a0 Details: <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Rev. Mark Lewis awoke early on the last morning of his life as an Anglican priest and dressed in a suit and tie instead of his usual priestly regalia. That\u2019s different, he thought, for the first of many times on a day when so much was different for St. Luke\u2019s, the small Episcopal church in Maryland where Lewis had been rector since 2006.<\/p>\n

On Sunday \u2014 with Lewis wearing lay clothing and sitting with St. Luke\u2019s parishioners inside the Crypt Church at Washington\u2019s Basilica of the National Shine of the Immaculate Conception \u2014 most of the parish from Bladensburg converted to Catholicism.<\/p>\n

In doing so, St. Luke\u2019s became the first Episcopal church in the United States to convert under new Vatican rules meant to attract curious Protestants.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis truly is a historic moment,\u201d said Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl, the archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, who led Sunday\u2019s conversion Mass, which he called \u201ca joyful moment of completion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fifty-eight of St. Luke\u2019s roughly 100 parishioners were confirmed at the applause-filled Mass, during which they were anointed by Wuerl \u2014 one by one, old and young, white and black.<\/p>\n

Osita Okafor, a 56-year-old Nigerian immigrant, found himself first in line before Wuerl for the rite of reception. His reaction? \u201cOh, my God, I must be blessed.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read more.<\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/strong> You can read Cardinal Wuerl\u2019s homily from the Mass right here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

UPDATE II: <\/strong>There\u2019s been some debate about whether this parish was, indeed, the first to be received into the Catholic Church this way.\u00a0 I asked Fr. Scott Hurd (an FOB quoted in the article) for clarification.\u00a0 He wrote:<\/p>\n

Here\u2019e the clarification: St. Luke is the first Episcopal parish to take this step under the provisions of Anglicanorum coetibus. The Fort Worth group<\/a><\/strong> was the first group to be received, in anticipation of an ordinariate. However, that group was comprised of people from a number of different Anglican communitite\/parishes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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