Hello,

Essentially, post title. I would like to continue being Episcopalian. Anglican worship and tradition speak to me perfectly and essentially allow me to hold my Protestant opinions and still maintain Roman Catholic or Orthodox practices. I actually left the Episcopal Church for 3 years and became Roman Catholic, only to return due to certain issues within the Roman Catholic Church (absolute certainty, compulsory confession, mortal sin, etc. this led me to have intense anxiety and got me an OCD diagnosis). But the Episcopal Church is my home, and it's where I became a Christian, and this where my wife and daughter were baptized.

But here is the thing. How do I just... Ignore certain politicized aspects of the Church? I am staunchly pro life and believe homosexuality (as in acting upon it) is sinful. I'm not a hardcore conservative either, I think Republicans do very little to actually help working class families. I think Christians should be above party politics, in all honesty. I am also concerned with the Church having little guardrails for certain things (like some folks not affirming the Creed). Things like this bother me. Surprisingly enough, I do not care if women are priests.

Can I just be Episcopalian/Anglican and just ignore that stuff? It's not terribly present at my local parish beyond a kinda liberal Bible study that I quietly left. I don't just want to become ACNA either because historical continuity is important.

I would appreciate some advice my friends. God bless you!

Anglican rosary guide! Completely free to use!

So I base this rosary guide and its prayers with the “traditional” prayers that are usually kept in the Anglican rosary. The only things that I added to was that I added the daily Hours to be said at the Invidatory bead and the Angelus to the last Crusiform bead. I really, really like Oxford Movement prayers, as they had a very theologically mainline Anglican-applicable form of Marian devotion.

I would also like to say that I have made various guides for prayer beads for various denominations. I make these guides to help people’s journey with God. I actually either just contemplate what would seem good to a person with a form of the rosary or the devotional of it, or I end up creating a guide in which that I practice almost daily. The ladder option is indeed that of this guide. I use this guide to almost every single day to guide me through the Hours (especially before and after a long day of college work). I really thought of this guide to be a very nice relaxing time with your Book of Common Prayer and rosary—with a nice noon teatime. Or morning devotion when you’re going to have a very full day of work and you just need that little extra boost.

Anyhow, I would like to say that I received a lot of hate comments on my last guy that I did give because I basically converted the Anglican rosary into Roman Catholic prayers, which I do not practice that guide, but making that guide was suggested to me. I received lots and lots of backlash and both support, which I am very unsure of both. But anyhow, this rosary guide is that of something I do daily. It is something that I trust, it is something that I believe in, and it is something that I really like. It is simply the daily devotional Hours, repetitive ancient prayers, and a nice bit of concentrated Marian devotion. Perfect thing to come home to.

Anyhow, I hope that this doesn’t receive hate, but if it does… eh I’m just gonna keep making these! I don’t care, it’s Reddit😂✝️🙏

The joint blessing of a chapel at a historic school by an Episcopal bishop and an Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) bishop has stirred up deep controversy in the ACNA, with an August 26 statement from its acting primate sharply criticizing the service and promising that the church’s College of Bishops would rule on the situation next month.

Bishop Ruth Woodliff-Stanley of the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina and Bishop Chip Edgar of the Anglican Diocese of South Carolina participated alongside each other at the August 18 blessing of St. Timothy’s Chapel, a 600-seat church on the campus of Charleston’s Porter-Gaud School.

Photos of the event circulating on social media show the two bishops leading prayers together, draping a hanging over the chapel’s altar, laughing, and embracing warmly.

Both bishops are members of the independent Episcopal school’s Board of Trustees, and worked together early in their episcopates to resolve remaining tensions from the 2012 division of the original Diocese of South Carolina

The entire story is worth the read. It appears that the conflict is strictly internecine from the ACNA camp.

Im an organist at an anglican church in maryland and I have been looking at the litany in d minor as a potential liturgical thing sometime this upcoming lent.
Has anyone else done this version of the litany at their church?
If so how hard is it

In the past couple of decades it has seemed like we are constantly bombarded by articles suggesting that the Anglican Communion is about to break apart or that North American Anglicans are calling each other schismatic or heritical (thinking of TEC and ACNA in particular), and frankly it can all seem like a tragedy unfolding at times.

This doesn't of course bear witness to the extraordinary ability of those within the Anglican tradition to stay together, often when issues such as churchmanship, theology and sexuality are thrown into the mix. That has to be celebrated.

I really hope that you will pray with me for continued patience and reconciliation within our tradition - surely unity must be a God given goal? This doesn't mean ignoring the concerns of those who have separated or any who have experienced hurt. My own province, the Church of England, has had many of these issues for centuries and had its own share of separations, but I've also been humbled throughout my time as an Anglican (about nine years) and even more so now as an Ordinand, by witnessing things like the traditionalist Anglo-Catholic priest sharing prayer and humour with his charismatic Evangelical colleague, people with different views on women's ordination even being married to one another, along with acts of charity and generosity that will never be newsworthy.

Seeing an ACNA Bishop sharing such warmth with his TEC counterpart just warmed my heart so much. The healing has to start somewhere.

Im asking my priest about doing a public reading of The Apocalypse/The Revelation of God to Jesus Christ given to John as we draw near to the Feast of The Reign of Christ or perhaps during Advent and as I was thinking about what it could look like I wondered if it would be ever appropriate to process the Book of The Apocalypse similar to how the Gospels are and if there is any precedence?