Among the motions passed at yesterday’s annual meeting of the Parish of Christ Church, Windsor, Nova Scotia, was an endorsement of the Anglican Communion Covenant.
Preamble: In the current distresses of the Anglican Communion and in the attempts to find a mechanism to hole the communion together, the Archbishop of Canterbury has sponsored an ‘Anglican Communion Covenant’. The Covenant is attached in Appendix # 2 [and is posted online here]. The motion affirms the ‘Anglican Communion Covenant’ as consistent with the understanding of our identity, polity and life that the Parish has articulated from time-to-time as well as signaling our continued commitment tot eh Anglican Communion via the Archbishop of Canterbury regardless of the actions of local and national synods.
Re: Endorsement of the ‘Anglican Communion Covenant’
The Parish of Christ Church endorses the Archbishop of Canterbury’s ‘Anglican Communion Covenant’ as a mechanism for maintaining the unity of the Anglican Communion, in accord with the foundational principles of our Anglican identity expressed in the Book of Common Prayer, the Ordinal, and the Thirty-nine Articles and as consistent with the Solemn Declaration of 1893 in Canada.
Also presented at the meeting was the annual report of Rector The Rev’d David Curry, which includes this revealing passage:
The year has been one of the most momentous years in the life of the Parish. It is a year in which we have to endure, sadly, “the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” and in which we have had to stand up for ourselves in the face of institutional pressures that would compromise and harm us, even to the extent of having to take the extraordinary expedient of statutory declarations to uphold the integrity of the Parish’s position. The leadership of the Parish is to be commended for its calm professionalism and strength of determination.
One source of institutional pressure is fallout from a meeting and subsequent exchange of letters between the Parish and the Diocese, discussed on this blog in December 2008.
The complete Rector’s Annual Report for 2009 can be accessed via this link.
After reading the above and the items as recorded on discussed on this blog I found it difficult to understand at first just how there could be such discourse between the Bishop of the diocese and one of it’s (the diocese’s) parishes ‘Until I read where the Diocese DOES NOT OWN THE PARISH PROPERTIES’. Now it is so clear just why:
(1) Bsp. Moxley has not taken a stronger stand as of yet for her desire for her Diocese to stand stronger in defence of the GLBT groups and in supporting those such as Ingham, Bird, Chapman, etal. THE DIOCESE DOESN’T OWN THE PARISH PROPERTIES!!
Now it is so clear just why:
(2) The ‘or at least’ some of the Parishes in Nova Scotia and PEI (ie: Christ Church Windsor) have not left the ACoC as yet.
Thank you to Rev. David Curry for making this so clear.
My next question: What are the “Believing” Churches in Nova scotia and PEI (and for that matter, the rest across Canada) that have remained in the ACoC going to do AFTER General Synod 2010?
WHAT are these churches going to do AFTER the Canadian General Synod votes fully into upholding SSB’ings and to doing nothing about the apostate Bishops, Priests etc who are teaching false doctrine across the country?
WHAT are these churches going to do ABOUT feeding monetary support “up along” to the Provincian head office and thence to the Primatial head office? By feeding your funds “up along”, are you not also upholding the ACoC and the false doctrine it is now promoting?
Ooooops —-I forgot to include the following directly after the end of Paragraph (2) in #1 above.
‘IT’S ALL ABOUT MONEY!!!”
If General Synod affirms ssb’s (and short of some kind of miraculous intervention of God I think we can assume it will) I am hoping and trusting that the ACoC will become a much smaller denomination than it is now — instantly!
Unfortunately, I don’t think this will be the case. Unless something happens at General Synod which DIRECTLY and NEGATIVELY upsets the comfort factor of an individual ACoC parish, nothing will happen. They’ll just go along to get along. That’s what they’ve been doing so far, and that’s what they’ll keep on doing. I think the word used in the Book of Revelation to describe this type of response is “luke warm”. So sad.
Winter traveller: #4
You are likely 110% c orrect in what you say……
the blind lead the blind AND are continually led by them and the hearing impaired cannot hear AND do not want to AND can’t handle the truth when it is spoken.
Blessings on your day.
Many Christians, and I use the term loosely, do not see the requirement for complete fealty and obedience to the Lord Christ. In turn they direct an unproportionate amount of attention onto the false god Mammon. Actions and attitudes toward orthodox Christians, their parishes and wardens by both ACoC and TEC will obviously have a detrimental effect on these unfortunates. I would suggest, regardless of the outcome (pray hard people) of ACoC National Synod that we should look for further financial decline, and some parishes within both these wayward organizations unable to find wardens.
I don’t gloat about this, in fact I pray Mercy and for a Spirit of repentance.