Mike+:

I have found that after giving a though explanation as to why we are not in 
communion with Canterbury and that we have valid lines of succession, that 
the issue usually ceases to be an issue especially if they have attended one 
of our services

I believe the Communion is ultimately doomed.  The COE and other members, 
excluding those from emerging nations, do not have the guts to expel ECUSA, 
because they are sympathetic to the course ECUSA has set, and this will 
eventually lead to those members of  emerging nations who do not like the 
course set to break away from the communion and do their own thing.

I read an article before the synod that predicted ECUSA would do the old 
soft shoe in their response to the Windsor Report because if they get kicked 
out of the Communion it would give churches wanting to leave ECUSA a better 
legal position to leave and take their property with them because ECUSA was 
no longer a part of the Communion.

Bill+
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Ward" <mward@...>
To: <faithandlife@...>
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 2:26 PM
Subject: RE: [FaithandLife] BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD AND AND ANGLICAN UNITY 
BY 2012


Bishop:

I don't know if I'd call it better advised. Probably, if I dug deep enough,
I'd find that they're actually quite ill-advised...about their own
particular Church!  This particular group that I have in mind and who are
looking at us as "illegitimate" are sitting in a church with a woman
"priest", under a Bishop who (like a weather-vane) turns whichever way the
wind blows, and have no earthly idea what's really at stake in this entire
milieu.  All they know is, "That church isn't in the Anglican Communion,"
and they use that as a way of disparaging what we are.

Someone recently told me that it's simply a matter of fear: these people
attend an ECUSA parish which, with both of their services combined, have
less attendance than does my 8:00 low Mass.  The rest have either drifted
off entirely or are driving down to worship with the schismatics (us!!).

Missed you at Synod.

MLW+

-----Original Message-----
From: Pax20@... [mailto:Pax20@...]
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 2:15 PM
To: faithandlife@...
Subject: Re: [FaithandLife] BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD AND AND ANGLICAN UNITY
BY 2012

Fr. Mike,

You must know better advised people than I do.  Last  Sunday I spent an hour

trying to explain the "Anglican Communion"  to a  group here at St. Thomas.

The main response I received seemed to be,   " yes we understand, but if we
are
members of the body of Christ why do we care  about the opinion of an
English
bishop whose position came into being after the  Reformation."

And Fr. Mike, I guess I really don't care either.

God Bless,  +chd

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