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Episcopecking Order

Jan 28th, 2008 by

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Posted in Anglican Artistic Moments

10 Responses to “Episcopecking Order”

  1. 1
    Mark says:
    January 28, 2008 at 2:03 pm

    I don’t get it.

  2. 2
    Pauline says:
    January 28, 2008 at 5:42 pm

    I think it is expressing the property grab by the Episcopalean Bishops down South (and maybe to come in Canada) even if the Parish does have title to the Church. But, I could be wrong (I started a sentence with a preposition so what do I know!)

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    Drumroll says:
    January 28, 2008 at 6:09 pm

    From Eastern Newfoundland & Labrador………

    MINE!! MINE!!! MINE!!!!! MINE!!!!!!!

    Great Cartoon DGP

  4. 4
    Peter says:
    January 28, 2008 at 6:24 pm

    It’s all MINE!!!

    :-)

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    Prairie Words says:
    January 28, 2008 at 8:52 pm

    Having had experiences with the above mentioned web footed creature, I am struck with its extraordinary ability to do two things well. Squawk and well, um, paint things white, oh never mind! Now which is +Jonathan Livingston?

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    Anne Anglican says:
    February 2, 2008 at 1:28 am

    January 30, 2008

    To the Clergy of the Diocese, Churchwardens and Members of Parish Councils:

    Greetings to you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ as we conclude this season of Epiphany and prepare to enter into the annual journey from Ashes to Easter.

    I write this after consulting with the Dean and Archdeacons of the Diocese, and their unanimous recommendation is that I do so, even though it may sound blunt.

    Persistent rumours have come to my attention that in some parishes across Canada the Annual Meetings or perhaps special meetings of Parishioners will be asked to consider a motion to approve separation of the parish from the local Diocese and from the Anglican Church of Canada. Somehow there is to be a transfer of Episcopal and synodical jurisdiction from that of the local diocese to some other jurisdiction or Province of the Anglican Communion, possibly “the Anglican Church of the Southern Cone of the Americas.”

    Although there has been no doubt in my own mind, I have consulted with the Chancellor, and she agrees that any such motion is “ultra vires” or beyond the powers of any parish or congregation within this Diocese.

    No parish or congregation in the Diocese of British Columbia has any legal existence except as part of the Diocese, and any attempt by any person to remove a parish from the jurisdiction of the Bishop and Synod is schismatic. Clergy, wardens, and member [sic] of parish council have a fiduciary relationship with the Bishop and Synod of the Diocese; any attempt to betray that trust through schismatic action is a ground for immediate termination of licence or removal from office. If a person is employed by the Diocese or parish and is found to be acquiescing in or to be actively promoting such separation, this is a ground for immediate termination of employment without notice or severance. People chairing official meetings of parishioners, whether incumbents or wardens or other persons delegated by them, are obliged to rule such motions out of order.

    There may be clergy and laity who, in good conscience, find that they can no longer remain members of the Diocese of British Columbia and the Anglican Church of Canada. Resignation of Office, and the seeking of a spiritual home elsewhere might be the honourable action of some. I would be sad to see this happen.

    My sincere hope is that with our different and contrary opinions we will nevertheless be able to hold together. We are the richer for our challenge to one another.

    Sincerely,

    +James: Columbia
    Bishop, Diocese of British Columbia

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    Kate says:
    February 2, 2008 at 6:51 am

    Ah, Honour. C. S. Lewis had something to say about that (emphasis mine):

    “It is your duty to fix the lines of doctrine clearly in your minds: and if you wish to go beyond them you must change your profession. This is your duty not specially as Christians or as priests but as honest men.

    There is a danger here of the clergy developing a special professional conscience which obscures the very plain moral issue. Men who have passed beyond these boundary lines in either direction are apt to protest that they have come by their unorthodox opinions honestly. In defense of those opinions they are prepared to suffer obloquy and to forfeit professional advancement. They thus come to feel like martyrs. But this simply misses the point which so gravely scandalizes the layman. We never doubted that the unorthodox opinions were honestly held: what we complain of is your continuing in your ministry after you have come to hold them. We always knew that a man who makes his living as a paid agent of the Conservative Party may honestly change his views and honestly become a Communist. What we deny is that he can honestly continue to be a Conservative agent and to receive money from one party while he supports the policy of the other. ”

    –C.S. Lewis, “Christian Apologetics,” Easter 1945; reprinted in God in the Dock

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    Warren says:
    February 2, 2008 at 4:12 pm

    I guess desperate times call for desperate measures.

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    Prairie Words says:
    February 6, 2008 at 1:27 pm

    I was invited to sit down with +Jim and the Dean separately in the Brandon Diocese after Lent and discuss things. I apologized for using the pointy stick to get the bull’s attention, but nothing else worked. His view is that can only be one Communion in Canada, mine is that which one has yet to be determined. I am not expecting total reconciliation, but perhaps the Spirit will allow us to understand each other and to allow us both to glorify God without the rhetoric expressed in some quarters. We are still our brother’s keepers and both been remiss in that duty while we labour under sanction and threat.

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    Drumroll says:
    February 10, 2008 at 11:55 am

    No. 6 Above says:

    QUOTE: “There may be clergy and laity who, in good conscience, find that they can no longer remain members of the Diocese of British Columbia and the Anglican Church of Canada. Resignation of Office, and the seeking of a spiritual home elsewhere might be the honourable action of some. I would be sad to see this happen.” UNQUOTE

    This looks to me to be a copy job from the letter written to the clergy of the Diocese of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador, just changed around a bit……looking for some clergy to be honest, ethical, full of integrity while at the same time the Bishops twist the tourniquet on their necks a little tighter…..

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