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Sunday, November 01, 2009

Some revolutionary news i think? but it wasn't exactly really published out on news or the local newspaper, unless i am that blur that i missed the section about it.
so, it seems that Anglicans are officially part of the Roman Catholics now?
according to the catholic news, groups of disaffected (meaning no longer loyal because you are not satisfied with the ruler/leader) [ i wonder why they are not satisfied.. ] can become catholics while keeping elements of their cultural and liturgical heritage. (announced by the vatican this week)

"In this Apostolic Constitution the Holy Father has introduced a canonical structure... which will allow former Anglicans to enter full communion with the Catholic Church while preserving elements of the distinctive Anglican spirituality".

I wonder what it meant by to enter full communion. Any ideas?

Then i went to research a little about the Anglicans, only knowing that they are very much similiar to the Catholics, other than which i am going to find out.

In many respects, there are no differences between the two churches. They are both Christian churches, springing from the same ancient source as the Eastern Orthodox churches. As such, Anglicans and Roman Catholics read the Bible with not only the two Testaments but also the Apocrypha, those books of the Hebrew Bible written in Greek. Both churches recite the Nicene and Apostles Creeds. Both administer Baptism and Confirmation, and celebrate the Holy Communion, as well as the four other sacramental rites of Penance, Matrimony, Anointing of the Sick, and Holy Orders. Their clergy are ordained deacon first, then priest, unless they are called to be perpetual deacons. From the priests bishops are chosen and consecrated by no fewer than three bishops belonging to a scrupulously conserved line of bishops that reaches back to the earliest churches.

There are Roman Catholic and Anglican shrines to Mary. Some Anglicans pray the rosary. Both churches maintain calendars of saints, with special prayers and readings for their feast days. Both churches have orders of men and women religious, vowed celibates who live in monasteries and convents.

The differences are in the details, for the most part. These differences flow from one central issue: who is in authority. The Roman Catholic Church has over the centuries steadily increased the power and prestige of the Pope, the Bishop of Rome. In our day, the combination of an extraordinarily gifted pope, John Paul II, with the mass media and globalization, have raised the office of pope to its highest level ever. The peripatetic pontiff has traveled far more than any of his predecessors. When he visits a country, it is to speak, not to listen, however. His bishops around the world act more as his prefects than as overseers of the regional Christian community. St Augustine's famous saying, Roma locuta causa finita est (Rome has spoken and that settles the matter) has never been more true than today.

The churches of the Anglican Communion have resolutely sought to disperse that absolute authority among several places. A famous report on authority in Anglicanism spoke of this peculiarly Anglican view of authority, which flows, it says, from the edges to the center. Each Anglican Church belongs to the Anglican Communion because it is in communion with the Archbishop of Canterbury and seeks to uphold the catholic faith and reformed order inherited from the Church of England. Yet each one is independent. The Archbishop has no legal authority outside of the Diocese of Canterbury. He serves as spiritual leader and symbol of unity.

Since Roman Catholics tie membership in their church to the person and authority of the pope, they do not ordinarily allow intercommunion. They do not recognize the validity of Anglican Orders, and so re-confirm and re-ordain Anglican converts. Anglicans on the other hand tend to practice open communion, and do not re-confirm or re-ordain Roman Catholic converts, because they recognize Roman Orders as valid. The difference is being in communion with the pope for Roman Catholics, and for Anglicans, it is adhering to the catholic faith as it has been inherited from the earliest Christians. One permanent feature of Anglicanism has been seeking to restore the faith and order of the primitive church. This is the principle of its reformation, while Rome's counter-reformation was to restore and enhance the medieval concept of papal authority.

http://anglicansonline.org/resources/essays/whalon/AngRC-diffEng.html

I just copied and paste what i think is what i wanted to find out.

anyways anyways,

some fun bits amidst of study study and bleah-ness. It was Halloween yesterday!

halloween has never been much significant in my 18 plus years till now.

It was suppose to be a boring firday night of studying, since a levels is approaching, but it ended up with going out with jolene and lew. hahaha, its like, we dunno where dunno where to go, and then we decided to go to sentosa, and we end up going to the spooktacular event at sentosa. The make up and costumes by the 'ghosts' and such are pretty realistic. It was fascinating, scary and fun and we had our fair share of screams. Especially from that chao-ta satay boy. and their stares are so intensifying that it will sent shivers down your spine :S seems like those ghosts loe to target people who are afraid of them. like me! oh gosh goodness gracious. thank goodness for jo and lew being there where i can run to for safety.

lol. Some say halloween is a day without making up excuses for bad hair days and bad dressing sense.

Though the tickets are pretty pricey, 22 bucks excluding the entrance of 3 dollars to the island itself, i say its not bad. And i definitely do not regret spending it over drinks (alcohol, which our initial plan is to just chill out at cafe del mar). yay yay.

It was thunderstorm and lightning on the 31st. So in the end, i was a good girl and stayed at home. Despite having some VIP pass for the sentosa vampire ball event (which sounded exciting, and when i went to check it out, have to pay for drinks and more drinks la.. ) or the one at the asian civilisation museum. hahha.

Halloween atmosphere muchly influenced by facebook applications as well, such as Pet society. LOL. ridiculous, but yeah, it was fun, to spook up things.

AND VAMPIRES ARE HOT. thanks to twilight and such, now that they are extra hot.. and everyone wants to be one too.

blackish red nails, pale skin tones, eye-liner lined eyes and such. and black black black. what a classic! xD