Post by angli_fan on Dec 14, 2006 18:16:10 GMT -5
[from Episcopal News Service]
The House of Bishops of the Anglican Church of Tanzania (ACT) issued a statement December 7 saying that its "communion with the Episcopal Church (USA) is severely impaired" in light the 75th General Convention's response to the Windsor Report.
The bishops also declared that ACT "shall not knowingly accept financial and material aid from dioceses, parishes, Bishops, priests, individuals and institutions in the Episcopal Church (USA) that condone homosexual practice or bless same-sex unions."
Meeting in Dar Es Salaam, where the next Primates' Meeting will be held in February 2007, the bishops noted that the Episcopal Church did not "adequately respond to the requirement made to them by the Anglican Communion through the Windsor Report by their failure to register honest repentance for their actions."
During the past three years, leaders of at least 14 out of the 38 Anglican provinces have issued statements saying that they are in a state of "impaired" or "broken" relationship with the Episcopal Church. It is unclear how many provincial synods have ratified the statements.
www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_80398_ENG_HTM.htm
"Brother Causticus" at titusoneten says:
...Furthermore, in addition to those with whom communio in sacris is merely impaired, the good bishops declare that communion is irrevocally broken with:"(i) Bishops who consecrate homosexuals to the episcopate and those Bishops who ordain such persons to the priesthood and the deaconate or license them to minister in their dioceses; (ii) Bishops who permit the blessing of same sex unions in their dioceses; (iii) Gay priests and deacons; (iv) Priests who bless same sex unions."
...Rifling through his stacks of old Church Times, BC finds a description of an interview the then Bishop of Monmouth gave clearly stating that he knowingly ordained a practicing homosexual – when, oh when will these homosexuals become proficient at it? – as a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek, in clear contravention of the canons of the Church of England and, depending upon whom one asks, Scripture and Nature itself, thereby befouling with abomination an institution that had previously known only chaste connubial bliss. +Monmouth remains to this day publicly unrepentant and the priest continues unchecked wreaking his putative ministry upon unwitting parishioners and, one imagines, the poor and needy of his district who would no doubt fling away the bowls of soup he proffers were they to know the challenge his manner of living presents to the wider Communion.
This defiant, erring Bishop of Monmouth clearly has no place at the Tanzanian table. It is very meet, right, and a bounden episcopal duty to shun the brazen foray of this notorious and open sinner to the Sacrament as the communion between him and the Anglican Church of Tanzania is utterly null and void, as stated heretofore in paragraph (i).
That the bishops of Tanzania have boldly declared themselves out of communion with the Bishop of Monmouth - or as he is now known, the Archbishop of Canterbury – and have thereby ejected themselves from the Anglican Communion – whose muddled ecclesiology admits to no certainties other than communion with ++Cantuar defines membership – is no doubt an auspicious step forward for Biblical Christianity, but perhaps a bit of an impediment to the full success of the upcoming Primates' Meeting, where it appears the ostensible convener will have no place at all.
It’s probably not too late, though, for the Anglican Church of Tanzania to get its deposit back from the caterers.
titusoneten.blogspot.com/2006/12/anathema-anathema-oopsnever-mind.html ;-)
The House of Bishops of the Anglican Church of Tanzania (ACT) issued a statement December 7 saying that its "communion with the Episcopal Church (USA) is severely impaired" in light the 75th General Convention's response to the Windsor Report.
The bishops also declared that ACT "shall not knowingly accept financial and material aid from dioceses, parishes, Bishops, priests, individuals and institutions in the Episcopal Church (USA) that condone homosexual practice or bless same-sex unions."
Meeting in Dar Es Salaam, where the next Primates' Meeting will be held in February 2007, the bishops noted that the Episcopal Church did not "adequately respond to the requirement made to them by the Anglican Communion through the Windsor Report by their failure to register honest repentance for their actions."
During the past three years, leaders of at least 14 out of the 38 Anglican provinces have issued statements saying that they are in a state of "impaired" or "broken" relationship with the Episcopal Church. It is unclear how many provincial synods have ratified the statements.
www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_80398_ENG_HTM.htm
"Brother Causticus" at titusoneten says:
...Furthermore, in addition to those with whom communio in sacris is merely impaired, the good bishops declare that communion is irrevocally broken with:"(i) Bishops who consecrate homosexuals to the episcopate and those Bishops who ordain such persons to the priesthood and the deaconate or license them to minister in their dioceses; (ii) Bishops who permit the blessing of same sex unions in their dioceses; (iii) Gay priests and deacons; (iv) Priests who bless same sex unions."
...Rifling through his stacks of old Church Times, BC finds a description of an interview the then Bishop of Monmouth gave clearly stating that he knowingly ordained a practicing homosexual – when, oh when will these homosexuals become proficient at it? – as a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek, in clear contravention of the canons of the Church of England and, depending upon whom one asks, Scripture and Nature itself, thereby befouling with abomination an institution that had previously known only chaste connubial bliss. +Monmouth remains to this day publicly unrepentant and the priest continues unchecked wreaking his putative ministry upon unwitting parishioners and, one imagines, the poor and needy of his district who would no doubt fling away the bowls of soup he proffers were they to know the challenge his manner of living presents to the wider Communion.
This defiant, erring Bishop of Monmouth clearly has no place at the Tanzanian table. It is very meet, right, and a bounden episcopal duty to shun the brazen foray of this notorious and open sinner to the Sacrament as the communion between him and the Anglican Church of Tanzania is utterly null and void, as stated heretofore in paragraph (i).
That the bishops of Tanzania have boldly declared themselves out of communion with the Bishop of Monmouth - or as he is now known, the Archbishop of Canterbury – and have thereby ejected themselves from the Anglican Communion – whose muddled ecclesiology admits to no certainties other than communion with ++Cantuar defines membership – is no doubt an auspicious step forward for Biblical Christianity, but perhaps a bit of an impediment to the full success of the upcoming Primates' Meeting, where it appears the ostensible convener will have no place at all.
It’s probably not too late, though, for the Anglican Church of Tanzania to get its deposit back from the caterers.
titusoneten.blogspot.com/2006/12/anathema-anathema-oopsnever-mind.html ;-)