Jeremy Taylor wrote:
I'm a Platonist first and foremost. I also was an Anglican, but I left because of all the nonsense (and a dawning realisation that the Anglican Church never was English Orthodoxy - but was always split between those more inclined towards Orthodox and Catholic positions and Calvinists and other reformers). Now, I'm basically without a Church, but just a follower of an English Christianity rooted in the preformation and, even, pre-conquest English and British Christianity. In many ways my spirituality is closer to Orthodoxy than Protestantism or even the Roman Church. But I must say I am one of those snowflakes who is most interested in Western rite Orthodoxy, because I feel very attached to British and English Christianity - I still have a lot of respect for some aspects of Anglican, whether high church or more middle of the road, from Cranmer's liturgy to Dr. Johnson to the tractarians.
I didn't mean at all to criticise the Western Rite. Please forgive me if I came across that way. I'm interested in it as well, but it isn't available to me where I live. No matter; I have what God has given me, and it's more than sufficient.
Are there any Western Rite Orthodox parishes near where you live? If so, you should definitely pay them a visit and have a chat with the priest. Failing that, the Byzantine Rite is also magnificent, and there is absolutely no incompatibility between it and the west. Just remember, the trick is not to make God English, but to make Englishness Godly, if you follow. 
http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/hp.php
"Never, never, never let anyone tell you that, in order to be Orthodox, you must also be Eastern. The West was Orthodox for a thousand years, and her venerable liturgy is far older than any of her heresies."
+St John Maximovitch (whom one will also find known as "the Wonderworker", "of Shanghai", and "of San Francisco"
Last edited by Seán Mac Críodáin (3/30/2016 6:01 pm)
