The 2011 Conference of the Anglican Use Society will be hosted this year by the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Arlington, Texas, on July 7-9.
Speakers will be:
Fr. David Jaeger, OFM, of the Antonianum Pontifical University in Rome
Msgr. Keith Newton, formerly “Flying Bishop” of Richborough in the Church of England, now Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in England & Wales
Rev. John Hunwicke, formerly parish priest of St. Thomas the Martyr in Oxford
Brother Stephen Treat, O.Cist., of the Cistercian Abbey of Our Lady of Spring Bank, Sparta, Wisconsin
Dr. William Tighe, Associate Professor of History at Muhlenberg College
The Most Reverend Kevin W. Vann, Bishop of Fort Worth (and adviser to Cardinal Wuerl on the erection of the Ordinariate in the U.S.) will be the principal celebrant and preacher at the conference Solemn Mass on July 8.
Please go to this website to register. There are limited places left.
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I sent my reservation in in March to be sure that I would finally be able to attend the conference. I am really looking forward to hearing all the speakers and meeting some of the people who post here and the feeling of one large family gathering together who are on the road to Rome.
I hope that having Bishop Vann at the conference doesn't mean that we will have to wait until after that event to hear any good news about the U.S. Ordinariate.
Fr. Mark, the two things are unrelated. The Anglican Use Conference is an annual event, and an announcement about the U.S. Ordinariate isn't tied to it in any way.
I wish I were able to attend this conference. It will be edifying, I'm sure. May God bless it.