>What about the Lambeth Quadrilateral? Let's rewrite # 1.  (I smell 
potential Bibliolotry here-again.) e.g. The sacred texts, esp. the Holy
Gospels are a sure guide to the life of Christ and to the teaching of His
Church which wrote them.  I would also refine  # 3 to include the Missal
& # 4. Women can and have been Deacons. The rest is good material. The
Greeks interestingly call the Altar the Holy Table. Blessings. GDVW+
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> 1. Belief in the Holy Scriptures to be God's Word written.
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> 2. Belief in the Holy Traditions (like which Books actually make up the
> Scriptures) including the 7 Ecumenical Councils. The Church of England
> never rejected the 7 Councils, only individuals persons did.
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> 3. Worship according to one of the classical Books of Common Prayer
> (excluding the contemporary Book of non-Common Prayer)
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> 5. A robust belief in Baptismal Regeneration.
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> 6. A robust belief in the Real Presence of our Lord's body and blood in
> the Blessed Sacrament without speculation on "how" it happens and a
> commitment to this Liturgy as the ordinary Sunday Service of the Church
> of God.
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> 7. A robust belief in Apostolic Succession.
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> Jurisdictions that affirm these essentials are Orthodox and Catholic.
> Whether they have candles upon the Altar or even if they call the Altar
> a Table; whether they wear surplice and stole or alb and chasubles; cap
> or a tippet; slippers or socks; lace or lattice work at the rails; gold
> chains and buckets of blood; or the simplicity of John Calvin’s
> unadorned undercroft – it matter not one bit because they are Catholics
> and therefore Anglicans.
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