TheAnglican Use, also known asDivine Worship, is ause of theRoman Rite celebrated by thepersonal ordinariates, originally created for formerAnglicans who converted toCatholicism while wishing to maintain "aspects of the Anglican patrimony that are of particular value"^[3] and includes formerMethodist converts to Catholicism who wish to retain aspects of Anglican and Methodist heritage, liturgy, and tradition.^[4] Its most common occurrence is within parishes of the personal ordinariates which were erected in 2009.^[5] Upon the promulgation ofDivine Worship: The Missal, the term "Anglican Use" was replaced by "Divine Worship" in the liturgical books and complementary norms,^[6] though "Anglican Use" is still used to describe these liturgies as they existed from the papacy ofJohn Paul II to present.^[7][8]

The Anglican Use was originally "the liturgy ofThe Book of Divine Worship [...] formulated and authorized in response toPope John Paul II's 1980Pastoral Provision that allowedEpiscopalian priests and laity in theUnited States to join the Catholic church while preserving elements proper to their Anglican tradition." It gives the name "Ordinariate Use" to the liturgy, since December 2015, of thepersonal ordinariates for former Anglicans,^[9] which is that contained inDivine Worship: The Missal andDivine Worship: Occasional Services. At a time when a specific liturgy for the personal ordinariates was still under preparation, the Anglican Use community inIndianapolis applied the term "Anglican Use" to theBook of Divine Worship liturgy that was then the interim liturgy of the North American personal ordinariate.^[10] ThePasadena parish calls the present form "the Ordinariate Form" and adds that it is unofficially but popularly known as the "Anglican Use".^[11] The AmericanNational Catholic Register has also distinguished betweenAnglican Use andOrdinariate Use.^[12] Other sources and commentators apply the termAnglican Use to all the books known by theDivine Worship appellation.^[13]

In 1977, some of those Anglicans and Episcopalians who desired union with the Catholic Church contacted individual Catholic bishops, theApostolic Delegate to the United States (ArchbishopJean Jadot) and theCongregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in Rome, to inquire about the possibility for married Anglican priests to be received into the Catholic Church and function as Catholic priests.

After the United StatesNational Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith had reacted favorably to the proposals that had been put before them, a formal request for union was presented in Rome on 3 November 1979 for acceptance into the Catholic Church, for steps to be taken to eliminate any defects that might be found in their priestly orders, and that they be granted the oversight, direction, and governance of a Catholic bishop.^[14]

The decision of the Holy See was officially communicated in a letter of 22 July 1980 from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to the president of the United Statesepiscopal conference, who published it on 20 August 1980. Though admittance of the Episcopalians in question to the Catholic Church was considered as reconciliation of individuals, the pastoral provision gave them a common group identity.^[15] After a period of being subject to the local Latin Church bishop, the bishop could set up personal parishes for them, with the use, within the group, of a form of liturgy that retained certain elements of the Anglican liturgy; and married Episcopalian priests could on a case-by-case basis be ordained as Catholic priests, but not as bishops.^[16]

In 1983, the first Anglican Use parish, Our Lady of the Atonement, was established inSan Antonio, Texas.Our Lady of Walsingham parish inHouston, Texas, followed the next year.^[17]

On 9 December 2009,Pope Benedict XVI issued theApostolic ConstitutionAnglicanorum coetibus, authorizing the establishment ofpersonal ordinariates for former Anglicans. The first to be established was thePersonal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham for England and Wales in January 2011, followed by thePersonal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter for the United States in January 2012 and thePersonal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross for Australia in June 2012. These "Anglican Use ordinariates"^[18] were a response to Anglicans outside the United States, and hence beyond the remit of the Pastoral Provision, but they also supplied some of the perceived needs of that previous provision.^[19]

Canonical differences between the Anglican Use parishes and the personal ordinariate are outlined in a study published in the 23 January 2012 issue of theNational Catholic Reporter.^[20]

TheCongregation for Divine Worship gave provisional approval for the Anglican Use liturgy, theBook of Divine Worship, in 1984, an approval rendered definitive in 1987. This book incorporates elements of the1928 AmericanBook of Common Prayer, but the Eucharistic liturgy is from the1979 prayer book, with theeucharistic prayers taken from theRoman Missal and the ancientSarum Rite (with the modern EnglishWords of Institution inserted in the latter). New texts were promulgated by the congregation on 22 June 2012, the feast of English saints Thomas More and John Fisher, namely the Order for Funerals and the Order for the Celebration of Holy Matrimony.^[21]

TheBook of Divine Worship was based closely on the United States Episcopal Church liturgy, which had developed in ways different from that of Anglican churches in England and Australia, making it unsuitable for imposing on all personal ordinariates for former Anglicans. Its Order of Mass drew elements also from the originalBook of Common Prayer, from different later versions of it, from theTridentine Mass and from theRoman Rite as revised after the Second Vatican Council.^[22] The Holy See's 'Anglicanae Traditiones Commission' that developed the updated form of Anglican patrimonial liturgy used theBook of Divine Worship as its "lead" source.^[23]

As an interimDivine Office, the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in 2012 adopted theCustomary of Our Lady of Walsingham. Combining elements from the most common Roman Ritebooks of hours–theLiturgia Horarum and theBreviarium Romanum–and both the 1549 and 1662 editions of the Church of EnglandBook of Common Prayer, theCustomary contained the fullpsalter. It also containedTerce,Sext, andNone–hours present in the Roman Rite but not in most Anglican prayer books.^[24]

Divine Worship: The Missal is the currentmissal containing the complete expression of the Divine Worship Eucharistic liturgy for use in all threepersonal ordinariates for former Anglicans that had been established from 2011. It took effect on 29 November 2015.^[25] The Mass is a "use" of theRoman Rite requiring theRoman Canon on Sundays, augmented with Anglican features such as wording, thePrayer of Humble Access and the "Comfortable Words".^[26] A number of these extra or optional features have equivalents in theTridentine use, notably in thepropers, the prayers at the foot of the altar, the offertory prayers and the Last Gospel.^[27]

In the new liturgical books for the personal ordinariates, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and the Congregation for Divine Worship retained the generic titleDivine Worship for the entire liturgical provision for the personal ordinariates, dropping the "Book of" naming convention in favor ofDivine Worship: The Missal.^[28]

The earlierBook of Divine Worship has been phased out and is no longer authorized for use in public worship.^[29] The term "Anglican Use" has been replaced by "Divine Worship" in the liturgical books and complementary norms.^[6]

Divine Worship: Daily Office is theDivine Office approved for Anglican Use Ordinariates. There are two editions: TheNorth American Edition, printed by Newman House Press and released in late 2020, is used in the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter in the United States and Canada. TheCommonwealth Edition, printed by theCatholic Truth Society, is used in the Personal Ordinariates of Our Lady of Walsingham and Our Lady of the Southern Cross in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, Japan, and Oceania.^{[citation needed]}

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