Fr Mike: Not that I've heard. My rector was a former Baptist, then Bible church pastor. He was not re-ordained when he came into the REC. We do sometimes regularize the ordination from non-liturgical communions, but AFAIK that is specifically not considered a re-ordintaion. At our church just recently we had a guest, a Baptist, come and preach. At the Eucharist, he participated seemlessly w/our two REC presbyters, praying over the elements and then distributing them. mw > Mark+ > > Lowly deacon? Even the Archbishop of Canterbury is still a deacon. :) > > I thought all the incoming clergy are now re-ordained. That's not correct? > > MLW+ > > -----Original Message----- > From: mark.mary@... [mailto:mark.mary@...] > Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 4:14 PM > To: faithandlife@... > Subject: RE: [FaithandLife] Anglo Catholics and Evangelicals in the new > Church RSVP 2 > > Fr Mike: > > I'm only a lowly deacon, so you can address me as Mark. I have no problem > w/Fr X (in fact, I prefer it) for priests. > > As far as I can tell, the straw that broke the camel's back concerning > breaking w/PECUS was the requirement that one must be ordained in apostolic > succession to serve the Eucharist. Bishop Cummins was castigated > specifically for participating in a Eucharist w/presbyterians. In the REC > we specifically require all our clergy to vow that no ordained person is a > priest in any way different than any layman. We do not reordain even > Baptists that become REC clergy. The clergyman is an elder, not a > sacerdotal priest. Since high ritual was tied w/apostolic succession, we > rejected a lot of things came w/apostolic succession. However, we take no > such vow, nor was it required even at the beginning, that we reject high > church ritual. Therefore, we are allowed to change ritual, which we have > done to a certain extent. The 4 Declaration of Principles, one of which > contains the part about the priest, areunchangeable. > > mw > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, send ANY message to: faithandlife-unsubscribe@... >