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$\"\"$ <\/a> Guest blogger Mantilla Amontillado, Ecclesiastical fashionista comments on the Anglican Ordinariate.<\/em><\/p>\n

Let me tell you something hon, I went to England one summer for to study the English you know? I was maybe seventeen and I go to this English Language School in Kent. It was really nice, and on Sunday I go into town to go to Mass with my friend Anna. So we find this nice old church and go to Mass and it is beautiful. The priest is very nice. He\u2019s wearing an old lace alb and fiddleback chasuble, maniple, the works. The deacon has on this beautiful brocade dalmatic and I can\u2019t believe it the priest is wearing a biretta and everything is so wonderful I could weep. The music is fantastic and there is incense smoke everywhere. \u201cWhy can\u2019t they do Mass like this in Spain?\u201d I say to Anna.<\/p>\n

So I\u2019m coming out of church and we\u2019re walking through the gate of the church and Anna says, \u201cHey look Mantilla! Look at this sign!\u201d So I\u2019m trying to read the English and it says, \u201cSt Barnabas Church of England.\u201d Akkk! I just about choke. \u201cWhat\u2019s this?\u201d I scream to my friend Anna. \u201cThis is a Protestant Church!\u201d She looks at me and she\u2019s\u2013 what you say? horrified. Her eyes are big like those olives we grow in Spain and she whispers to me, \u201cMantilla, we received the Body of Christ in that Church! They\u2019re not Catholics you know! I think maybe this is a mortal sin.\u201d<\/p>\n

So we are walking home totally silent and thinking that probably we are going to hell. Then I\u2019m thinking. \u201cHold on a minute hon. They are not Catholic right? OK. We make a mistake, but if they\u2019re not Catholic then it wasn\u2019t the Body of Christ anyway. It was just bread.\u201d I\u2019m thinking for a minute and say, \u201cSo that\u2019s okay then I guess.\u201d Anna says, \u201cI know what you mean hon, but I still don\u2019t think it was right.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anyway, this is my first experience with these people. Now I know better. We studied all this when I am doing my degree in Ecclesiastical Haberdashery at Salamanca University. The Anglo Catholics, they dress up like Catholics, but they\u2019re not the real thing. Like those guys who dress like a bullfighter in tight pants and those sequin jackets, but they\u2019re not really a matador. Maybe this is not so, what you say, ecumenical, but you know what I mean and I\u2019m only telling you what old Monsignor Quixote say in the theology lessons.<\/p>\n

Me? I\u2019m not so close minded. I think I like these Anglo Catholics. They have style you know what I mean hon? They understand that the liturgy is supposed to be beautiful. They take time to dress right. They know how to be reverent. You know what, they know some other things too. They know about sacred music. I\u2019ve been back to England to some of their churches. The worship is beautiful. Maybe they have one or two things to teach us Catholics, and maybe they\u2019re not so Protestant and maybe a lot of them want to believe the Catholic faith.<\/p>\n

Now I hear the Holy Father likes them to and he wants them to join the Catholic Church. I don\u2019t know what you think hon, but this is music to my ears. If this happens this is going to shake up the world of ecclesiastical haberdashery that\u2019s for sure. I mean think about it, has anyone decided what the proper outfit is for someone called \u2018An Anglican Ordinariate\u2019?<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know, but I can tell you one thing, he aint\u2019 going to wear black, and you\u2019re going to see some serious lace, and he ain\u2019t going to be wearing no polyester vestments and you not going to see sneakers in the sanctuary and you bet all those cassock albs are going to go.<\/p>\n

The other thing about these Anglo Catholics is that their priests can be married! Now that is one hot tamale! I\u2019ve seen some of these guys and they are not all fat old priests with hairy ears you know? I don\u2019t know what you think hon, but I have really big mixed emotions about that one you know what I mean!!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"