Ouch!

MLW+

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From: charles scott [mailto:crscottblu@...] 
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 4:14 PM
To: faithandlife@...
Subject: [FaithandLife] The Church In Exile

Michael+

As flawed as the current crop of Bishops heading the
national churches are, and the lack of co-operation
among the dis-continuers, we have one thing going for
us.

In determining who is in and who is out at Holy
Communion, all I have to ask for is a baptismal
certificate.  For that I am grateful.  

Consider what the Judaizers in the first century had
to investigate in order to establish the person coming
to Communion was a true son of Israel!  (Galatians
2:12)    Things could be worse.

Oh well, I must be off.

Charles+ 




--- Michael Ward <mward@...> wrote:

> <snip>The visible unity for which we pray is an
> eschatological hope.  We experience it at Eucharist
> when we pray to God with and before the saints of
> all
> places and all times.  We have this hope in very
> earthen vessels.  As was the case of the church in
> the
> first century, "we have here no continuing city."  
> 
> Charles+
> 
> Thanks for your thoughts on this.  I suppose the
> thing (in my mind) that
> gets tedious in all of this is the arguments about
> "who's in" and "who's
> out".  I can't get letters of transfer from the
> local ECUSA church because
> "Canon law forbids the transfer to another
> denomination." And this from a
> church we're supposed to have some relationship with
> through the ACN.  And,
> of course, none of the continuing churches can talk
> to one another because
> everyone wants to be the boss.  Gordon+ and I talked
> about this at lunch
> today: I'd bet most of the clery in the continuing
> churches are getting
> pretty tired of continuing to walk apart from one
> another.  It's often said
> that a few good Requiems and we can put things back
> together, but I doubt
> it.  Evidently purple does something to a man's mind
> (or, perhaps more
> accurately, a man's ego).  Oh well, onward and
> upward....
> 
> 
> MLW+
> 
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