Notice of Annual Meeting Sept. 16, 2018

Notice of Annual Meeting

Pursuant to Article IV, Section 2 of the bylaws of the corporation, and by designation of the President, the Annual Meeting of the members of the ANGLICAN USE SOCIETY, doing business as “Anglicanorum Coetibus Society”, will be held at St. Thomas More Church, 118 Theodore St, Scranton, PA 18508, USA on Sunday, September 16, 2018 at 12 noon, for the following purposes:

FIRST: To receive such reports as may be made by the President and other Officers and members of the Society;

SECOND: To elect board members to serve for the next three years; and

THIRD: To transact such other business as may properly come before the meeting.

Your presence in person, via conference call, or by proxy is requested.  An invitation to join by conference call will be sent to members via Join.me that offers the ability to attend the meeting toll free via phone or the internet.

Please find attached a ballot and a proxy.  If you cannot attend the meeting, please fill out a proxy designating a member you know will attend, or you can put in Fr. Eric Bergman or myself, Deborah Gyapong.

If you are unable to attend, please mail your ballot and proxy to the Anglicanorun Coetibus Society, 1831 Barbara St, Bethlehem, PA 18017. Alternativley, fill it out, scan it and send it electronically to anglicanorumcoetibussociety@gmail.com before Sept. 10.

Dated: July 1, 2018                                                                                        Deborah Gyapong

                                                                                                                       President

Save the date for our AGM

Save the date for our next Annual General Meeting Sept. 16, 2018.

It will be held in the early afternoon at St. Thomas More Catholic Church in Scranton, Pennsylvania, following Mass.

More details to follow soon, and members will receive official notification via email.

Report on Annual General Meeting Sept. 17, 2017

We had a successful AGM in Scranton on Sunday. All six of the candidates on the slate were elected, so welcome to new board members Clara Chung, Ron Crane, Fr. Bernard Sixtus, Christopher Mahon and David Burt.  And welcome back, Joe Blake, for another term.  Thank you to all who participated in the election.

Following the AGM, we had a board meeting to elect new officers.   The new board officers are:

President:   Deborah Gyapong

Vice President:  Clara Chung

Treasurer:   Joe Blake

Secretary:  Christopher Mahon

Webmaster:   Shane Schaetzel

We divided up the Secretary position.   Christopher Mahon will serve as the secretary for our board and executive committee meetings, taking the minutes and keeping those records.   David Burt, as the previous secretary, also took care of keeping track of our membership list.  I have decided to take that on, and will be seeking some volunteers to help me.   I hope to have a membership committee set up, so we can mount a membership drive.

If any members would like me to send them the minutes of the AGM plus attachments containing the various reports, I would be happy to do so. 

Shane automated the membership portion of website in July so that when one joins the Society now, one takes out a subscription that will be taken out annually, unless the subscriber/member decides to cancel the membership, or their credit card information changes.  As it stands now, I will have to follow up on each individual membership to ensure it is renewed, which is time consuming.    It’s important for us to get our membership list under control and automated, because we soon hope to offer some services on our website that will be available to members only.

Another thing we did on Sunday, was strike the beginning of a music committee, with Clara Chung and Christopher Mahon as the first members.   But we will be seeking additional members to help out on this.   We plan to have a music page or pages on the website that will perhaps have samples of how various settings of the Gloria, or the Angus Dei, for example, are sung.   Perhaps some instruction on how to properly chant the Gospel, or sing Anglican plainsong or chant.  This will start modestly, but we hope, as the Society grows, we will be able to do some instructional videos to help our people discover, preserve and pass on Anglican patrimony.   We’ll also see whether some communities might be willing to share their upcoming bulletins so that other communities don’t necessarily have to reinvent the wheel but can use some of the good ideas out there as templates.

If you are interested in helping out on any of these projects or would like to suggest something you’d like to see the Society do, please let me know.

That’s it for now,

Deborah Gyapong

Notice of Annual General Meeting

                                                               

                                                                                               

Notice of Annual Meeting

Pursuant to Article IV, Section 2 of the bylaws of the corporation, and by designation of the President, the Annual Meeting of the members of the ANGLICAN USE SOCIETY, doing business as “Anglicanorum Coetibus Society”, will be held at St. Thomas More Church, 118 Theodore St, Scranton, PA 18508, USA on Sunday, September 17, 2017 at 12 noon, for the following purposes:

FIRST: To receive such reports as may be made by the President and other Officers and  members of the Society;

SECOND: To elect board members to serve for the next three years; and

THIRD: To transact such other business as may properly come before the meeting.

Your presence in person, via conference call, or by proxy is requested.

Dated: July 20, 2017                                                               (Signed:) C. David Burt, Secretary

Bishop Lopes' address at the University of Vienna

Bishop Steven Lopes of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter gave a lecture at the University of Vienna on March 28, 2017 that contains important information about the process at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the  Faith where he worked for 10 years leading up to Pope Benedict XVI's Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus.

You can read the lecture here.  Here's an excerpt.

In 2007, the Congregation received a new cluster of letters from groups of Anglican clergy posing a different kind of question. Yes, they were writing to say that their own individual journeys of faith had led them to the point of seeking full communion with the Catholic Church. But they were also writing as pastors responsible for the care of souls. They were concerned for the faithful who were willing to follow them into the fullness of Catholic communion. What of them? Was the idea just to assimilate them into normal Catholic life? Would their faith and devotion, nurtured and developed in an Anglican context, survive that process of assimilation so that these faithful truly became Catholic? Could there not be some "space" opened up in the Catholic Church where the faith practices and devotional life of these faithful could continue to thrive? One such letter the Holy See could ignore. As it happened, within a span of 4 months, the Congregation received very similar letters from groups of Anglican clergy in England, from Texas in the United States, from Australia, and from the so-called continuing Anglican groups, notably the Traditional Anglican Communion. Some response on the part of the Catholic Church was required. The first step was to determine which entity at the Holy See was responsible Page 9 of 18 for this discussion. At the point, the conversation could have been turned over to the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity, for example, except that these groups of Anglican clergy were not asking for dialogue. They were professing their readiness to end the period of schism and enter into full communion. The groups stressed their readiness to accept the Catholic faith in its fullness. To stress the point, bishops of the Traditional Anglican Communion sent Rome a copy of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which they had all signed as a mark of their acceptance of the Catechism as an authoritative articulation of the faith once delivered to the Saints. This, therefore, was clearly a matter that fell into the competency of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.