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Votive Mass of the Chair of St Peter

https://extraordinaryform.org/propers/0222ChairofStPeter.pdf

Today’s Mass is being offered for the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter – the U.S. Anglican Ordinariate jurisdiction: her bishop, priests and lay faithful and the promotion of:

Ordinariate parishes which maintain elements of Anglican liturgy and tradition in their Masses and other worship services, such as Evensong. The ordinariate is under the direct authority (exempt) of the Holy See. 

The Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter includes more than 40 parishes and missions with 12,000 members in the United States and Canada. It is based in Houston, Texas, with the Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham as its principal church.

The liturgy of the ordinariate, known as the Anglican Use, is a form of the Roman Rite with the introduction of traditional English Catholic and Anglican elements. Also called “Divine Worship” or the “Ordinariate Use”, the Mass is celebrated according to Divine Worship: The Missal and the canonical hours according to Divine Worship: Daily Office.

In the early 21st century, a number of bishops from the Church of England and the bishops of the Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC), a global “continuing Anglican” body, independently approached the Holy See seeking some manner of corporate reunion that would preserve their autonomy and their ecclesial structure within the Catholic Church. Many of these bishops were unhappy with changes within the Anglican Church, such as the ordination of female and LGBT priests, and the consecration of same sex marriages.

In response, Pope Benedict XVI promulgated the apostolic constitution Anglicanorum coetibus, permitting erection of personal ordinariatesequivalent to dioceses, on November 4, 2009.

Formation

Pursuant to Anglicanorum coetibus, the Vatican erected three ordinariates over the next three years in countries where interest among prospective Anglican clergy and communities was strongest:

• the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsinghamin England and Wales on January 15, 2011
• the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter in the territory of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops on January 1, 2012. It later acquired extraterritorial communities in Canada.
• the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross in the territory of the Australian Conference of Catholic Bishops on June 15, 2012,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Ordinariate_of_the_Chair_of_Saint_Peter